From the preliminary task to the final product, the student learned several skills. These include increased proficiency with Photoshop and InDesign, technical effects like color balancing and glows, and how to design magazine layouts that look professional. The student also learned how to effectively integrate images and text without clutter, and how color schemes can impact design. By applying these new skills, the final magazine better achieved professional quality and visual impact to attract the intended audience.

1. 7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

2. From the construction of the preliminary cover to the completion of my final cover I have learnt a number of useful things. I have increased my knowledge and general understanding of software like Photoshop and InDesign, I have also learnt how to apply these skills usefully on my cover. For example I have used allot more technical effects on the finished cover like colour balance, red eye removal, outer glows and also acquired practical skills within my usage of the software, like merging layers. From the preliminary task to now I have also broadened my overall knowledge of how a magazine should look and how to achieve this and make it look professional, for example my choice of shot for the main image on the preliminary task wasn't effective and didn't look professional.

3. From the completion of my preliminary contents up until the completion of my final contents I have learnt how to integrate text and multiple image effectively without looking cluttered allowing me to present it with clarity to the audience. I have also learnt that sometimes subtle colours with burst of flamboyant colours is better than way round as this can be overpowering like I feel it was on my preliminary contents. With regard to colour I also feel like I have established a clear colour scheme in my final contents which has been continued throughout the whole magazine, this is juxtaposed by the slightly random colour choices in the preliminary task which is another reason why, I feel, it doesn't look as effective or professional as my final contents due to the more innovative approach in my final contents which is spurred from my increased software knowledge. I have used the skills that I have gained to maximise the impact on the reader, and I feel that the transformation in quality and my skills is clearly visible. the other

4. I feel that my preliminary task helped give me an idea as to how I could create a magazine successfully with all the fundamentals. Whilst constructing the final magazine I learnt lots of new things along the way which enabled me to elaborate on these fundamentals and turn them into something like this. I learnt technical skills that I have applied to this double page spread like a radial gradient, drop shadow, stroke effect, outer glow, image level adjustments and many more.

5. I feel that from the preliminary task up until now my progress is clearly evident, this can be reflected through more sophisticated application of newly learned skills, particularly in Photoshop. For example, the effects applied on the preliminary cover and the shocker are nowhere near as professional looking as on the final magazine: I think that these elements add up in order to make my final magazine more successful in attracting its desired target audience. The difference in target audiences from the preliminary and final would be that one is college students only (preliminary) and the other is aimed at predominantly males of the ABC1 social class who are interested in music and aged 16-24. Due to this contrast i had to approach the audience in a different way on the final using more mature content, language and images which capturing the musical foundations using props and general information amongst many other things.