- The document discusses the learning and progression between the author's preliminary task and final magazine product. - For the final magazine, the author conducted audience research and learned magazine conventions to better target the magazine. This made the final product more like a real magazine. - The author learned new Photoshop skills like using different fonts, downloading custom fonts, editing images using filters and tools, and including shapes to draw attention. These skills improved the visual design and quality over the preliminary task. - Overall, the author's skills in researching audiences, understanding conventions, and using design software grew between the preliminary and final pieces. This allowed the author to create a more effective magazine.

1. Evaluation – 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. I think that there is a very clear development
from my preliminary task to my final piece.
Firstly, to create my magazine, I did research
into my audience, and into the kinds of
products that were already out. I learnt
about the conventions of magazines, and
what techniques are commonly used, and
was then able to adapt this to my own
magazine based off of the results I received
from my audience research. This meant that
my magazine was more targeted to a specific
audience, whereas my preliminary task
wasn’t, and therefore didn’t quite work as well. It also looks less like an actual magazine as it
doesn’t include the conventions of a normal magazine cover.
I think that the layout on my preliminary task’s
contents page and my magazine’s contents page
have similar layouts, however, my knowledge of
conventions allowed me to develop this, and to
create a much more detailed and better
organised page.

3. As well as this, I have learnt about Photoshop, and how to use it to create what I want to create.
In my preliminary task, it is clear from the way that the cover was made that I was unsure of all
of the different ways that I could use the programme. Much of the font is that same, the colours
are all similar, and the style is very simple. For my actual magazine colour, I learnt about the
range of different fonts that I could include, even downloading a font from a website and
including this in my magazine. I would never have even thought of doing this in my preliminary
task.
I also learnt about editing images. In my preliminary task, I raised the brightness and contrast of
my image, but was unsure of what else I could do. For my magazine, I learnt about how to add a
filter, as well as using the correction and clone tools to edit the model’s skin and create higher
quality images. I think that this is definitely evident when the images are compared side by side.
I also applied this new skillset to the other images in my magazine, like those on the double page
spread and my album covers.
Another new Photoshop skill was the use of shapes. I included boxes on the page to make
certain parts of the text stand out from the rest. I didn’t do this in my preliminary task, and I feel
like the text all appears to blend into one, as nothing really grabs an audience’s attention.
Overall, I believe that my skillset has improved a lot from my preliminary task. I have learnt
about technology, but also about conventions of magazines and my target audience, allowing me
to create a much better, more effective magazine.