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

From making my college magazine I have learnt:

• How to use Photoshop better. I now know how to use most of the tools such as the spot healing tool, also how to brighten images and change the colour of the images for example my model on my contents page.
• How to use an SLR digital camera. I learnt how to use the buttons on the camera and also how to focus lens. I now know the lighting is better outside than inside.
• How to edited images to look better. I now know how to cut around an image to make the edges not as sharp also how to brighten the images to make them stand out more. I can now smudge the edges on an image to make them look more smooth so they do not look like they have been cut out.
• I now know how to address the target audience more. For my college magazine I don't feel that I got the attention of the target audience where as for my music magazine I really concentrated on what the target audience will be looking for, I looked at magazines similar to the one I wanted to make and copied their ideas.
• I can now fill in all the gaps on a page to make the magazine look more packed and busy and not boring. As you can see on my college magazine it is very plain and has a lot of gaps and spaces. Where as on my music magazine there is no gaps I have filled them in with small images and love hearts. It now fits more with the genre.
• I dressed my model on my music magazine in clothes that fit with the genre and my magazine design, where as on my college magazine I just took an image of a friend from media who was just dressed for a day at college. So I now know how to dress a model for a certain genre.
• I have also learnt how to use columns. On my college magazine I have not used columns where as on my music magazine I have used a column on my contents page. I am glad I know how to do this because it looks so much better.
• On my college magazine the fonts used don't really fit with the genre where as on my music magazine I have used a font on my masthead that really fits with my genre and the size is more appropriate. The size of the font for the cover lines on my college magazine are too big where as on my music magazine they  are small and look better. I now know how to choose appropriate fonts and font sizes.