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 layout of my cover is much better as I have more content and therefore there isn't big spaces as on my college magazine there was a lot of space and the text was very spread out and large. The masthead is also improved by a vast amount as on my college magazine it didn't stand out and it was plain, on my music magazine the masthead is presented in a box and it is very big and bold and takes up a good amount of space which means it stands out well.

The photo quality is improved a lot as this college magazine photo is cut out really badly as you can still see bits of the background in the photo and the models head had been cut off which means it was taken badly, this shows i've also improved on my camera skills throughout the process of my making my magazine.

The positioning of the photograph has improved as in my college magazine the text was layout around the photo and this made it look messy and unstructured whereas in my music magazine there is a lot more photos and the text overlaps it therefore showing that there is a flow within the page rather than the text and pictures just being placed.

The layout of my contents page has changed dramatically, in the college magazine the layout was very simple with no real structure. It was very basic, I moved on from that for my music magazine contents page as it has boxes that separate different type of stores and also has subheadings which make the contents page much easier to read.

The colour is improved as in my college magazine there was no colour which made the contents page very boring and dull, now a range of colours have been used which means that the page has been bought alive also the pictures have added good content to my music magazine as it shows more into the stories that are featured in it.

Lastly, the effects that have been used are good as there is a coloured background, drop shadow on boxes and symbols all used, these just add a little something different to the page and make it more like a music magazine. I have learnt to be able to add and use these since creating my college magazine.