5) Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To The Full Product?

From creating, and learning from my first 'School' magazine front cover, I feel that I have increased my technical ability, for example... using photoshop, as this software takes years to learn how to work properly! I did use photoshop for my preliminary task, however I was only 'blurring' and 'shadowing', whereas in my final product, I was creating background, (B&W stripes)and even learnt how to edit out objects that I did not want to be shown. I have also learnt so many new, technical words that I had not even known before, e.g. 'Drop Cap', which is used on the majority of magazines. By doing the preliminary task, before this major project gave me a head start in learning how to use the technical facilities that we had, and to gain a clearer idea of how magazine's are put together. It also helped me to always refer back to my target audience, and why my idea would attract to them.