The document reflects on the growth and lessons learned from an initial preliminary task to a full product. The author notes they gained improved technical skills in software like InDesign and Photoshop through practice. They also learned more about the magazine publishing industry. The author felt they thought more about content design and how it conveys messages and portrays audiences. They were more organized in their process and time management compared to the first unit. The author believes they were more creative as well, taking on more ambitious work like a concept art piece that took over 5 hours to complete. The only idea reused from the first unit was a square masthead on the front cover.

1. Looking back at your preliminary
task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it to
the full product?
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2. Technical Skills
 I’d say my technical skills have gotten better, for the fact that I have memorised more
shortcuts in software like InDesign or Photoshop.
 I have also learnt a great deal about publishing houses from this unit, as I knew some little
bits here and there but now I know different Publication houses such as Bauer and Future.

3. Do I think about my content more now?
 Definitely, I now know to think not only about it being aesthetically pleasing, but also they
message it conveys to the public about my magazine and also how it portrays the target
audience themselves.

4. Was I more organised?
 I was definitely more organised than in the first unit, I feel I used my class time well by
doing the things I knew I could struggle on and my home time to do things that I knew
would be relatively easy and simple for me.

5. Was I more creative?
 Yes, I certainly think I was, I was very ambitious in setting myself all of the usual work but
also the work to do for the concept art, because the piece I created took about 5 - 5.5
hours to complete, and a photo wouldn’t have taken that long.
 I also think I was quite ambitious because I went for a genre that nobody has really
covered as a full magazine yet.

6. Did I re-use ay ideas from the first unit?
 The only idea that I continued from the college magazine would be the use of the square
masthead for the front cover, other than that I had to use all new ideas and material.