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

The preliminary task i feel gave me greater awareness of how consideration of the target audience determines the outcome of decisions made during the production process. for example it helped me to see what my the requirements for my past target audience's. for my preliminary project my target audience were people who were in college, however i was still able to incorporate certain similarities of the audience in order to make the magazine successful.
Also because of the use of this, i will able to plan my work more thoroughly and as a result keep a more detailed time plan as a result with the help of blogger. As a result this allowed me time to make certain changes in the given time period, meaning it allowed the product to reach its maximum potential overall.
It also allowed me to repeat certain steps learnt from this but instead apply it to my final project, such as the use of photoshop which i had no common knowledge of before on how to use it. I learnt and applied things such as a layers and effect, as well as adjusting picture exposure.
I also learnt how to use Quark Xpress. This meant i was then comfotable using the software the second time and even open to learning some new things, which included how to insert new internet downloaded fonts and how to get rid of white backgrounds off of jpeg files.