Question 7 – Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at my preliminary my skills on Photoshop and InDesign have improved a lot more this has enabled me to produce a more professional product.  I found it much easier to use Photoshop than InDesign, the contents page of my student magazine clearly shows this as the arrangement of cover lines is messy as they are not even aligned properly. Whilst the layout of the cover page made by using Photoshop is almost as good as the final product’s cover page although this is just affected by the poor quality of the picture place on the background of the page another thing I have learned is to use the space available better but I could still develop on this.

For the preliminary task we was restricted to using small canon cameras which produce poor quality photos and we had no aid of having professional lighting whereas for the final media product we was able to access professional DSLR’s with high numbers of mega pixels to increase the quality of the photo taken this made a big difference between the student magazine and the final product. The photos produce were sharper with much more detail.

The font for the student magazine cover line could have been a bit bigger as there was plenty of space to be filled although the feature article font was plenty big enough I also find this cover line to look more attractive than the one I chose for my final media product. The mastheads of my product both have big bold fonts although one is more attractive that the other. The student magazine’s masthead’s colour wasn’t designed for other issues and looking back I don’t feel like white is suitable for a mast head because in other issues the background may be white. Having a masthead within a text ensures that it will always be able to be read.