Foundation Portfolio- The Evaluation- Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

In Conclusion, when I started this magazine project, I had limited knowledge of how high quality images and text were used in magazines that are published today. Although I had done leaflets, flyers, and other publications before while I was in secondary school, I only had access to less technical programs such as Publisher and earlier versions of PowerPoint that in my opinion didn’t have enough freedom to design publications in the way I envisioned them. Although my knowledge of magazine design is limited due to the reasons I have mentioned before, I have been working hard to improve the design of my music magazine ever since I started to learn about layouts, puffs, creating barcodes and other basic information during the time I was analysing student magazines in November. In my student magazine, I had only targeted one audience while in my music magazine; I used more than then one target audience which were rock fans in general, young and old. For example while the front cover of my student magazine used a simple image of three students standing against a wall and used bright simple colours, the front cover of my music magazine uses much darker colours such as black and yellow, the main image has been edited and recolored with Photoshop and as I have mentioned before, the mastheads are written in a ying-yang style with one masthead being written backwards on a black background with yellow text and vice versa. So, to conclude, I believe that I have learnt how to make a good impression on my designs and hopefully in the future, I will understand how to make magazines of a higher quality.