Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task (The School Magazine Task), What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To Full Product

My Preliminary task looks very basic now when I look back at it and the colour scheme is not attractive.

The layout however is similar to the final magazine. 

I have learnt that making a magazine is far more difficult than I experienced in the preliminary task , this is because  I made a contents page and  a double page spread. 

In the preliminary task I have used block colours for the cell lines, now as I look back have learnt that it looks far better if it has the same background 

colour.