Evaluation: Question 7

Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full project? 

Through the progression of the project I learnt a number of skills; I learnt the basics of InDesign, and through the process of me making my designs for my music magazine, I noticed that I was learning more about InDesign and with me experimenting more with the many tools of InDesign, I could change the layout of my designs, as well as experiment with different styles and formats. As I went along, I also changed my designs significantly, this was because I started to look at other magazine formats and conventions for inspiration to see what I could add to make mine better.

Also, through the progression, I changed many things in the magazine; from the beginning to the end of the process of the project my ideas and designs had changed drastically as I realised things that I'd like to changed, and decided there were ideas that I had come up with that I didn't really like in the end. For example, I was going to make the main cover line of my story about a band splitting up. In the end I decided I preferred the idea of the magazine being a 'special edition' magazine dedicated to something. In the end I decided to use the band breaking up idea for my double page spread which in my opinion worked a lot better.