Evaluation: Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt?

Preliminary Task

• Back when I first created my preliminary task, I initially thought that as a magazine, it didn’t look too bad. It is only now that I have learnt about different software's, such as Photoshop and InDesign, to name a few, that I can now look back and see just how much I have improved from my preliminary task.

• For my preliminary task, I can remember thinking that the only software that I could feel comfortable using was either Microsoft Word or Microsoft Publisher, which left my editing skills for my images and overall magazine at a poor level.

Front Cover Transformation

Contents Page Transformation

My Knowledge Now

• Since designing my preliminary task on Publisher and Word, my knowledge of how to use both Photoshop and InDesign very effectively. As I have previously said, my knowledge for these two pieces of software before starting the course was next to none, but now I feel that I could use it again to create similar products and even more complex ones with more guidance from the sources that I seeked this time. The most I have learnt while creating my magazine was what my target audience wanted to see, by knowing this, I was able to arrange it accordingly through skills I had picked up through tutorials and through explanations that my teacher gave to me.