reflection on preliminary task

for my media preliminary task i created a school magazine front cover & a contents page, for this i had to use Photoshop. 
i think that i did a good layout for my front cover by keeping it simple & clear. I used a simple house style consisting of purple & gold, which i thought would be two good contrasting colours for my school magazine as they are often considered quite regal and elegant. 
i think that i could have improved on my organisation and planning, as prior to creating my cover & contents page i didn't do very much planning, i just came up with my ideas as i went along. Also, my contents page was not finished in time, so my time management was not very good either.
Before starting this project, i had very little, basic skills on photoshop. during the making of my magazine though, i learned a lot about how to manipulate an image e.g. how to crop the image, how to remove the background.
   I think that my shot composition was very basic, and not very well thought through, so when it comes to my main task, I should make better use of mis en scene & what i have available.