Question 6: Looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learnt in the progression to your full product? - PLAN

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This is my preliminary task and this is my finished full product. As you can see they look completely different which you can tell from just looking at them without even looking into detail and reading everything. The main reason for them looking so different is I learnt how to use Indesign which I was very unsure about when I started the first task - obviously this helped a lot because I learnt how to use the software I needed and didn't just make it up.
First of all I learnt that having a lot of pictures on one front cover does not look good and the way the writing is all over the pictures does not look good or professional so I decided to change this on my full product.  I went for one main picture with nothing over her face apart from her name over her body, which was nothing to important. As you can see this looks a lot better then having the writing all over the pictures and more professional as this looks like it was rushed and had no thought put into it. I also learnt how to take professional pictures from a proper camera and not a rubbish digital one which made my front cover look a lot better. I learnt how important white spaces was when doing my full product and decided that I would spread things out more and have different things going on on the front cover but still make it look sophisticated.  From my preliminary task I also learnt how important colours and and titles were so that I then used on my front cover as making my titles bold and bright.
My contents pages look completely different to each other because by doing the preliminary task I learnt how to use Indesign to produce a contents page that looks similar to a real contents page. I did this by having less white space and less articles because I felt they were all cramped together. I also learnt that having less articles on the contents page and a little bit of information about them looked a lot better then having lots of articles together. The white space I knew made my contents page look very rubbish so that's when I decided to add the directors letter because my preliminary task also looked very plain and boring so the letter made it look more interesting.
Although I did not do a double page spread for my school magazine it helped me decide what to do for my double page spread. It helped me because I had learnt about white spaces and taking pictures so when making my double page spread I knew I didn't want any white space and wanted a whole page to be taken up by a professionally taken picture with pull quotes to make the whole double page spread look more interesting.
Overall doing my preliminary task helped me a lot especially with learning how to use the software that of course was important to be able to finish my full product to a high standard but also with learning what looks good and what doesn't.  This was important for me to know what I wanted it to look like as I then knew what looked good and what didn't.