Evaluation

The successes which I had during my preliminary task was that I knew how to work Photoshop which would speed up the process of creating my magazine as I was confident as to what to do. Also, any techniques I didn't manage to do in my GCSE magazine, I could easily do on this one as I have more knowledge and have experienced photoshop more and have no difficulty using it. So me being experienced with Photoshop has helped a lot and I could just get on with working.

However, there are some things which I forgot how to use from GCSE, so being reassured with how to use all of Photoshop, and having more time on it, I got used to it and feel much more confident with using everything. I have also learnt how to use blogger and upload my work to it, and would be able to use it again in the future.

On the other hand, there are some improvements I could consider, one of them being taking slightly more care when using the lasso tool and cutting around pictures, as the main image of the students isn't perfectly cut out. I could have also, maybe created my own badge to make my magazine more unique and different. Instead, I used another school's badge, which wasn't the perfect colour scheme which I originally wanted if I were to create my magazine again. I used another school's badge because of the time I had, if I had more time, I would have taken more time and attempted to create my own, I did attempt to create my own but it didn't look very professional, so i didn't use it.

I think that I have followed the brief as much as possible, as I have created a magazine which does look like a school magazine and has all the features that you'd expect on a typical school magazine, and I have also created a contents and front cover mock-up to show where I will place all the features on my magazine. Lastly, I have researched other school magazines to see what to put on my magazine and what is conventional. I did this by analysing two front covers and picking out a few features of both and explaining the effect of using them and how it affects the audience. By doing this, I had more knowledge on school magazines in order to make my own.