Evaluation - Skills Development

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

Looking back, I improved a lot. The final piece is far more professional and less amateur. Starting with the cover, the image on the final piece is in a much more suitable location, and the background is changed to make it look more subtle and eye pleasing. The masthead is a lot more readable, and in a more suitable font. There are more cover lines to fill up dead space, less colours are used, more editing has been done to make it look more eye catching, there’s an obvious theme through the fonts and background image, and there’s a better sense of uniformity in the masthead on the cover and the contents.

Secondly, the contents page I feel improved even more. In the final piece there isn’t a wall of text that is present in the preliminary task, and the text isn’t hyphenated. Where I did edit the image to make the text more readable in the preliminary task, it was done very carelessly and was the exact same shape and size as the cover image, making it very aesthetically dull. The layout if the text, and the way that there are no changes in font or size make it very difficult to read. More colours are introduced, making it feel very juvenile, and the same font is used throughout both pieces. In my final piece, I feel I not only conquered all of these problems, and came out with something professional, but I also managed to slightly challenge certain normal conventions, and using the ones that worked best with the feel of the magazine.