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

The preliminary task compared to my final product looks rather amateur and unprofessional; this could be down to the use of the colours, the models or the pictures used. The pictures used in the preliminary are not particularly well edited and have a few things in the background that come across as unprofessional for a school magazine, such as phones and incorrect uniform. The colour scheme of the preliminary task is rather garish and rather distasteful compared to the colour scheme featured on my final product. The main thing that I learnt from the preliminary task was how not to lay out a page as I realised quickly into the design of the front cover that I have not left enough space in the picture to properly input text and sell lines around the central image. This fact made the entire front cover look poor as text covered most of an image that should be left alone and untouched. Another major thing that I learnt from preliminary to my final product production was the importance of lighting and how much of a difference it made compared to the quality of the images captured. The preliminary task front cover and contents page both had a large amount of whitespace and very large typography which looks unprofessional as it shows that the creator of the product was simply looking to fill the space.