The student learned how to make their magazine look more professional by using small effects and increased their knowledge of programs like Photoshop and InDesign. They were able to edit images in Photoshop and find better fonts on websites like dafont.com for their music magazine. They also added details like a barcode. Their contents page looked more 3D using features in InDesign and was brighter using large colored blocks and transparency effects, showing progression from their preliminary task to the full product.

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. I feel that I have learnt how to use small effects how make my magazine look more professional. Since I created my college
magazine my knowledge of the programs and resources I have been using have increased and I have become more successful in
using them. An example for this would be that I used Photoshop to edit the image that I used in my double page spread. This is
not something that I had done at all when creating my college magazine. Another features that I learnt to use would be websites
such as ‘dafont.com’. Using this website I could find better, more interesting and more professional fonts to use for my music
magazine. These fonts made the general appearance of my magazine much more attractive. I also added smaller details such as a
barcode, which fitted with the conventions of magazines.

3. My contexts page appears much more interactive in my music magazine as it looks more 3-D. this was a features on InDesign that
I learnt and applied it in ways to make my magazine look much more professional. My final contents page was much more bright
as I learnt how to use and create large blocks of colours as well as the effects to make the more see through.