Preliminary Task Evaluation

I found the preliminary task very useful as I now know more about why magazine’s editors have laid there front covers out the way they have and why they have chosen certain aspects of the magazine. The preliminary task also helped me to understand how to use InDesign so that when it comes to my main coursework I should have fewer problems. I feel that my front cover and contents page worked very well. I used different things such as cover lines and plugs to give it a more professional look, also adding a bar code to make it look more realistic. I did however find my contents page harder to do as to make it look realistic the layout is crucial my first attempt looked almost like a restaurant menu but once I had reconsidered certain fonts and changed the layout of the picture I feel it looked better. By doing the preliminary task I have also now gained a lot of ideas for what I want my actual coursework magazine to look like, this should help with my research and planning as having a basic understanding of magazines means that I know feel more confident of what to do. If I was to do the preliminary task again I think I would do a bit more research into contents page layouts and why they are laid out the way they are so when it came to my contents page I had a better idea. I also would perhaps have taken a photo with slightly brighter colours so to give me a wider range of colours I could have used on my front cover.