The document discusses the differences between designing a preliminary task and final product. When designing the final product, more real detail, professionalism, and research into existing magazines was required. InDesign software allowed for higher quality images and layering compared to PowerPoint used for the preliminary task. Photoshop was also used to enhance images for the final product. More professional software and research into magazine layouts and structures helped design a final product compared to the basic preliminary task.

1. Evaluation Question: 7

2. Final production Preliminary Task

3. FINAL DESIGN PRELIMINARY TASK

4. Designing the preliminary task and the final product was
completely different. When designing my final product I had to
go into much more real detail and be more professional
compared to when I was designing my preliminary task. In
order to get the gain a sense of realism for my final product I
had do to some research into existing professional magazine,
such as VIBE & Kerrang, whereas for the preliminary task I
didn’t as it wasn’t as professional. When doing my preliminary
task I was struggling to use good software to design with but
at the end of my final production I had a good understanding
of how to use InDesign very well.

5. When creating my preliminary task I used software package Microsoft
PowerPoint to construct my design. This software was very limited, in
terms of what effects and structure I could use to construct my product.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint it provided very basic tools to use and work
with therefore I couldn’t be very effective and creative when designing
and creating my preliminary task. Whereas InDesign has much more
features that aid the constructing of making magazine pages. This
software offered many more effective features that made my production
look more detailed and professional. Using InDesign I used the layer
option to structure my magazine and organise it so it looks professional
and well-organised. The image quality in InDesign was much better than
the quality of the images used for my preliminary task. This is because
InDesign can enhance the pixilation of a photo better, as this is what
InDesign specialises in, than Microsoft PowerPoint. Also creating the
layout of my preliminary task on Microsoft PowerPoint wasn’t really good
due to layer options being limited to one; therefore the whole production
had to be layered into one. Also I used photoshop, for my final, product,
to enhance my images and insert effects and edit the images I’m using.
This includes cropping out the background or any unwanted parts of the
images, including any effects such as transparency, etc. This was better
then using Microsoft Powerpoint, when creating my preliminary task, as
Microsoft Powerpoint offered basic or mediocre effect tools/features and
not to the same scale as the effect features at Adobe Photoshop. Some
of these basic effects include, rough background removal, change of
colour, etc.

6. When creating my final product I had to use more professional
software, this is because I needed more professional tools to
use for the creation and enhance the professional look for my
product. I had to do much research into professional magazine
pages so I had an idea of the layout and structure of them, for
example: barcodes, image, text, website, etc, which helped
me create my final product. When creating my preliminary
task I used simple basic software and didn’t do any research
into any existing products, so it was really basic.