1. QUESTION 7
LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT
DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION
FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?

2. In September, when I began this course, for the
preliminary task I made a magazine cover and
contents page which would be sold in a school and
read by the students. Within the last few months my
skills have improved considerably. I have learnt many
new techniques and skills in both Adobe Photoshop
and Adobe InDesign. Below is my front cover and
contents page for the school magazine. By using
Photoshop and InDesign I have been able to make a
magazine that looks more professional that that of my
preliminary task. On the right are both my preliminary
task cover and contents next to my final construction
of my cover and contents page. My preliminary task is
missing key features that a magazine needs such as
price, barcode and date. It also lacks information on
what the reader will find inside as I used very few
cover lines.

3. By looking at my preliminary task next to my final
magazine, it shows how my skills have developed as I
improved the quality of my product using the different
software.
• My preliminary task was the first time I used Adobe
Photoshop, this is clear in the way I have placed and cut
around my images. By using the pen tool on Adobe
Photoshop, I was able to cut around my images neatly.
• I did not use any editing within my preliminary task such
as the blemish remover tool and alteration of
lighting, which I used to produce my final product.
• I made improvements on both my text and images by
altering the layer options and adding things such as a
drop shadow behind the text to make it stand out. My
text shows more variation in my final product, altering
in both colour, size and font style.
• I have also displayed how my skills have improved by
manipulating the image to make it look more
professional. I did this by altering the hue and
saturation of the image. I also used the pen tool to
select areas such as the model’s lips and nails to change
the colour so they match the masthead and magazine
colour scheme.
• My contents page also misses key features such as an
editor’s note and uses just one image

4. MY FINAL PRODUCT