The document compares the author's preliminary magazine project to their final magazine project. For the final project, the author used more professional software that allowed for better layout, color scheme, font usage, and inclusion of more polished images. The final magazine had a more coherent design that followed industry conventions, unlike the preliminary version. The author learned to create a more polished and professional end product by utilizing better design principles and software for the final magazine.

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

2. As you can see there is a clear
difference between the quality of my
preliminary magazine and the final
coursework magazine. The layout of
the front cover of my final magazine
fits in the usual convention of a
professional magazine. The picture
quality of the main image shows
more polished edit on the final
magazine. Whereas, the image on
my preliminary magazine is very
simple and un-cropped.
The colour scheme of my final
magazine is a lot more cohesive, the
variation of colours compliment each
other very well.
The font style of my final magazine
has very modern connotations, also
the colour is carried through.

3. The contents page of my
preliminary did not really match
the usual convention of layouts.
This I mainly because in my final
created magazine I grouped the
features of the content.
Whereas, in my preliminary the
contents page is very messy
without appropriate gaps in
writing. The overall layout just
doesn’t look as polished or
professional.
Also, I used more amounts of
pictures in my final magazine,
this is more like a professional
magazine as they usually show a
lot of pictures of content to
entice the reader.

4. Using Quark
When creating my final magazine for coursework,
we used Quark to ensemble the magazine. This
software was very effective in bringing together
my edited pictures and font. The dimensions of
creating the magazine pages were easy to
ensemble. Whereas, in my preliminary task I used
Microsoft Publisher which wasn’t very
sophisticated when creating my magazine.

5. Double Page Spread
This double page spread attempts to again follow the colour scheme of the
whole magazine. Also, to interest the reader a large page filled with the image
will draw the reader in, with the pull quote also complimenting the picture . The
picture shows a progression from my preliminary magazine as the image
matches my genre of music magazine and will attract the target audience.