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?

The magazine has changed drastically from my college magazine to the music magazine that I more recently created. You can see straight away that in the college magazine that I didn't put alot of thought into where things should be positioned, I just put them wherever was easiest but in my music magazine I thought about it alot more and changed things many times before I came out with the final thing but with the college magazine I put the image there the first time and then left it there and didn't bother changing it. I used guidelines to help me on my music magazine, these helped me structure the text and basically make things look much more professional.  Another thing is that the image on the college magazine isn't the main focus, because the size of the image isn't that big and the rest of the text around it is attracting attention to it and this is something that I changed on my music magazine as I made the image much bigger so that is the main attraction and the text isn't.

Also, the text, I have used the same colour text throughout the whole cover of my college magazine and a plain white background. Whereas on the music magazine, I have used orange, black and white text and different sizes of font and also I have left the background in as I thought it would look much better. Another thing is the actual image on the college magazine isn't a very good picture, there is no eye contact and there is activity of other people in the background of the image. But in the music magazine image, I have taken a low angle shot of my model to make him look more superior and this is something that I didn't know much of when I was creating my college magazine so this is something that I used to my advantage.

Contents Page

My contents page on my college magazine is shocking, there isn't any real layout going on as there is just an image placed on the background and white text over it. But on my music magazine contents page there is the image on the right hand side of the page, with the contents of what the magazine will hold down the left hand side of the page and this looks much more professional and neat compared to my college magazine.

On the music magazine again there is the same colour scheme, with orange, black and white used but on the college magazine the colours don't even contrast well, you can't really read some of the text because of the image in the background and the white text and also where the image doesn't fit underneath I have changed the font colour to black so it is easier to read.

The images that I taken for the college magazine were taken simply because I didn't have a lot of time so they were rushed, I simply have a picture of the college which don't relate to the topics on the contents page and here I should have got images of the canteen or something to do with the 'Go Ape' trip which is mentioned on the contents page. The images on the music magazine however I had much longer to take them, so that's why I took the camera home and took much longer editing the picture so it looked better and more professional.