Q7. Looking back on your preliminary what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to your final product?

I believe that the skills that I have taken from my prelim task that I did at the start of the year has helped me a lot to get the skills and the experience I needed in order to make my final product.  When I first started with my prelim task I wasn’t very good at the skills of Photoshop and Indesign, but because I did the task so early I was able to gradually build my skills in order to make the best magazine I could.  The skills I have learnt is the basic Photoshop skills in how to crop, move, select, spot remover tool, rotation, duplicate all the basic action tools you would have to know in order to make a good professional  magazine.  Another thing I have seen my progression in is my Indesign skills, I am now able to do a lot on the software, things that I couldn’t of done before.  I can place, move, play around with text and paragraphs, font, selection again all the basic tools/actions you would have to know.  Another thing I can see my progression on is to work independently, this task helped me to do this because you had to go out on your own and find pictures yourself and make the magazine yourself.  This prepared me for my final product so I knew what to do when it came to the task.  The final thing I have learnt from the prelim task is to use Blogger, I had never been on Blogger before.  But now I understand it and can use it effectively without any confusion.  Overall I have been very happy with the progression and the things that I have learnt from the prelim task.  I have learnt the skills that I have needed in order to make my finak product as professional as possible and I think it has.    

This is my Prelim Task

This is my Final Product

There is a significant difference between the two products.  From the Prelim task I was able to take the skills and make my final product as good as it can be.  All the skills that I have gained from the prelim task from being independent to learning the basics to Photoshop, everything that I have learned has contributed to my final product to make it as good as possible.