Evaluation7 - Looking back at the

preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the

progression from it to the full product?

From the preliminary task I have progressed a lot in the making of

magazines. My preliminary task looked more amateur, which is understandable, considering my earlier experience with

making magazines was at GCSE level. My music magazine looks much more

professional and with my recent music magazine I can see imagine it being on the

shelf of a newsagents, with the other mags such as NME and Q.

I took my own advice in using just one image on the cover but I had a different

style completely. I kept many things simple, and I actually probably made my music mag more simple, with the white

background, a la Rolling Stone. I have developed other things though by using a more professional text and different size text, and I made it more interesting by

using different colours, and I took more of a risk with my music magazine than I did with my school magazine as I had more

time and care with that task.

As you can see my contents page(s) I made for my prelim task very not all that

good and was uninspiring. I liked the way I used the layout, with the swapping of

images and text across the page. But I do think my contents pages for my music

mag look way more professional than my prelim task. I took more time and effort into making my magazine contents page

as I am getting marked upon it and I wanted it to look as professional and real as possible. I used Photoshop extensively for both pages but it is obvious which one had more effort placed into it. I added a lot more detail to take it to that higher

level of professionalism.