Evaluation Question Seven

Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?








Do i really need to answer this? The comparision between my two magazines is non-existant. On the left we have amatuer work with no overall plan, no fancy ideas, not even straight text! Where as on the right we have a masterpeice that has 'Oh yes' written all over it.

My prelminary work doesn't even follow any conventions other then the very poor masthead. The photo quality was poor, the editing was poor, the design was poor and it just looks so dull. The text varies from one sentance to the other, the images arn't in line nor in a correct size.

The improvement from that to my current work is vast, you can clearly see that my work has become far better. The editing is good, the design is great, the genious new ideas, it all adds up to one great package. The preliminary taught me exactlly what not to do in a magazine but this is wear my first draught suffered from. Instead of doing too little like i did before i then went and did too much and the first draught just too crowded, this time i have found a good space between the two. The preliminary also taught me that time, patience and detail are everything. Although you can't see it that well my pug has a huge amount of detail in it, as well as the background to my double page spread. The preliminary was a good test run and taught me what i shouldn't do and yes i did learn from it. Apart from obviously learning more about Photoshop, i have learnt more about proffesional looks, how to anaylse and use bits of design from just about anything (see question 6 step 4), how to make things look eye catching, how to appeal to a specific type of reader and flood them with everything they want, could want and what i'll force them to want.

Although there is one major difference between why the magazines have certain things. I mean i wouldn't add on skulls, make it all dark and drab if i was trying to appeal to school kids like i did in my prelimary because thats not what they want, so the preliminary has definitly taught me to research into my target audience and find out every little thing about what appeals to them, in this case it did happen to be skulls and dark colours due to this being about Thrash Metal.