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?

I feel i have learned lots of skills and techniques which will be useful for future work. I have learned about a whole new programme, Photoshop. I used Microsoft Publisher for my preliminary task, but quickly learned for the real product, that Photoshop was a simpler programme for what i intended to do. It also gave me a product of higher quality. I have also learned to play around with images, changing the darkness levels, in order to gain effect through the images. I have also learned that using different fonts and colours is not always the best thing to do. Often, a simpler approach with a strict colour scheme (as was used in my final product) has a much more professional look about it. Finally, I realised the importance of researching your product and especially the audience for it. This is vitally important as it gives you an idea of what the audience are looking for in a magazine, which doesn't currently exist in a magazine.