Evaluation 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back on my preliminary task I learnt and found a lot of information that helped me create my main task.
I did my first bit of research, learning how to to deconstruct a magazine's front cover. I learnt some terminology about the different features of a magazine, such as the masthead and cover title. These words I did not really know before, so from learning it in my preliminary task I was able to adapt these words and use them in my main task.
When taking the image, I further developed my technology skills because I was able to use photoshop and edit the photos. I adjusted the image and uploaded it to InDesign and was able to work and navigate my way through this program.
I learnt about how important the text is on the front cover and contents page. The mode of address and style of lanuage was also something I learnt about, knowing how to address the target audience, which in this case was students.
The most important factor that I learnt from the preliminary task was the image on the front. When doing the research I had to evaluate the images on the front cover, this was the first time I had to do this, so I thought about what would I like to see on the front cover, and the answer was a famous person. The second magazine I looked at did this, making the magazine more desirable to look at. Since for my main task we had to our own photography and not images from the interent, so I had to take pictures of my friends posing as if they are a band. This made it more difficult to make the magazine more desrivbale to buy because the reader would not know who they are, but instead of using a msuical instruemnt, like the college magazines used a photo of the school, on the front cover I made it more interesting with two girls.
When making the contents page I looked at the three examples and saw that they were very simple and fucntional. I thought that that would be a good way for me to develop my own, by taking inspriation I was able to make my own contents page look functional for the reader and interesting using images. This has helped me in the main task, because my real contents page is quite similar to the one in the preliminary task. The plain background focuses all the attention on to the text and images, making there be no distractions away form them. The title had to be contents, so it would be more obvious and helpful to the reader, so they don't just bypass the oage and actually stop to look at it.

I have learnt a great deal of information from the preliminary task because I was able to adapt my knwoledge of college students and focus that as my target audeince, which incorperated the image and the masthead to suit a college student. The reserach I did for the task was much simplier than what I had to do in the main task, but it enabled me to learn about the features of a magzine and how to evaluate them. Form the research I could develop my own ideas into the preliminary task.