Evaluation 7

Looking back at the preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

As the process of using photoshop became more and more familiar to me through using it during my preliminary task to making my three magazine pages, I have found that the overall quality and conventions I have included within my work have seriously improved. 

In order to fully show my progression and improvements, I have decided to include some photos to show the comparison between my preliminary task and my finished magazine media product.

These two images portray clearly the drastic quality difference between my first ever cover and my final product for my music magazine. The placement of the conventions, text, photo and images, on my pre lim task cover are extremely simple and poorly placed on the page with no real layout style or condition. Whereas, my music magazine cover looks professional uses complimentary colours and portrays a wide variety of conventions you'd find on a real magazine e.g. Buzzword, Slogan, Main heading, the text is in line and doesn't bleed off of the page and the Masthead is clear, correctly placed and is easy to read. Despite each magazine having a much different purpose, one being a school magazine and the other being a music magazine, they can be easily differentiated between in relation to which is of a higher quality and looks much more professional.

The same can be seen here when comparing my contents pages. Everything from photo editing to text placement has majorly improved from my pre lim task to my music magazine. Due to the fact I had no real style model to help me when creating my school magazine, I was very much working from my basic knowledge of conventions, whereas, I had my main style model, "Rolling Stone", to work from and I now have a much more advanced knowledge of the conventions of a magazine, editing skills as well as the exact functions and features to use on Adobe Photoshop to create professional looking, high quality magazine pages.