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

The cover in the preliminary magazine looks really unprofessional because the picture on the preliminary is very unprofessional, also the writing looks really tacky compared to the one on the final piece. The title of the preliminary magazine looks really tacky aesthetically so it makes the magazine look more like a children’s magazine rather than the final cover which has a much neater

masthead and it looks more like a real masthead, it also has more relevance to a music magazine whereas BOOM doesn't really have any relevance to a school magazine. The preliminary magazine has too much writing on it which I think looks really tacky and the final magazine is more simplistic which I think looks much better and makes you focus more on the picture rather than the writing. The barcode on the preliminary is too big which I think looks really unprofessional and tacky. The picture on the preliminary magazine doesn't have any eye contact with the audience so it doesn't draw the buyer’s attention as it doesn't look them in the eyes. The writing on the preliminary magazine is all over the picture which doesn't look very good as it covers the picture. 

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on the final contents which is much more professional and it has more attitude compared to the preliminary which doesn't have any attitude so it doesn't really look as if it could be in a shop. The preliminary magazine has page numbers which are really close together and when you see magazines you only see feature pages on the contents page and also page 1 is the cover so it isn't really professional. The colours don't really flow together well on the preliminary contents as the model is wearing clothes which are different colours to the writing, in comparison the contents final looks much better as the colours go together as it sticks to the three colours so it looks more like a magazine and how it should look. The picture on the preliminary contents is really boring and doesn’t really stand out as much as the final one does.

The preliminary magazine has a good layout but the colours are very tacky, the colours on the contents and the cover link together which works well. The format of the final contents is much better because it is much neater and it has a clearer format than the preliminary. The picture on the preliminary contents is really cheesy compared to the one

The preliminary magazine doesn't look very professional whereas the final magazine is more professional and the pictures are much more professional and classy compared to the preliminary. I have gained more skills from doing the magazine as before it was really hard to use Photoshop and you can tell by the quality of my magazine that I couldn't really use it that well as I was just learning how to use it. I think my skills have developed really good as my final magazine is far better than the preliminary as it looks far better and it also fits in with the R&B look and would fit in if it was in a magazine. I have learnt that to make a magazine look like a professional magazine you have to make sure that the pages all link together with the colours used, also there needs to be about 3 colours used because too little can look too minimalistic and too much can look too cramped and tacky. I have improved by making my pictures much more professional looking by making the hair and makeup match my genre of music, the preliminary magazine didn't have a specific look on the picture so you wouldn't be able to tell what sort of magazine it was from the pictures whereas on my final magazine you can see that it is an R&B/ Hip Hop magazine because she shows that she has attitude. My knowledge of Photoshop has got much better throughout making my product, I have also learnt how to use iphoto which helped me make the pictures look much better by removing spots and making my model look much more flawless. I learnt how to not only cut out images but to also use the rubber tool which was really easy. I have also learnt that I can download fonts which make the article much more aesthetically pleasing and make it stand out more and fit into the genre more. I have learnt that you can edit fonts on paint which is what I did to my title and make the arrow on the A and this meant that the title stood out more, compared to my preliminary title which was really boring and didn't have anything different to it which would draw your attention to it. At the start when I was doing my preliminary I was really confused about how to do layers and how to save the image to carry on adjusting it the next time I opened it up but now I have learnt how to do it and learnt that you can save it as a JPEG. 

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