Q7. Looking back at the preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to a full product?

Question 7:

By doing the magazine front cover I have developed my skills more from when I started with the college magazine. As you can see from both magazines you can see a difference in the layout and the quality of the magazines. I have learnt the conventions of the magazine and how to present a page. Looking at this college magazine I have noticed that the magazine doesn’t seem to have a good colour scheme and the colours don’t go with the background images.

When I first started to do my college magazine I did use Photoshop but my skills were not developed and so I had to use the basic skills I have learnt about Photoshop. I first did a college magazine so I can see my strengths and weakness while using Photoshop so when it comes down to making the music magazine I would have developed my skills and can use Photoshop to my advantage. While I was making my college magazine I was not able to manipulate or do effects on Photoshop because I didn’t know how to. In the college magazine I have shown a front cover and contents page whereas in my music magazine I have shown a front cover contents page and double page spread. I have learnt how to do effects on images and learnt how to work with different canvases.

I have learnt how to attract my audience through the music magazine. I have learnt what my audience finds appealing to them and what age group I am targeting. I can see that in my college magazine I did not do well in appealing my audience. My main audience for the college magazine was meant to be young boys and girls whereas the way my college magazine was laid out and presented shows that my college magazine in the end only appealed to young females because it was too feminine. This showed my main idea of my college magazine audience was not thought out properly. I have learnt that the Canon E05400D can take images effectively with a really good quality and the images are clear and not pixelated.

The conventions I have learnt about music magazine are where to place every source of information. I have also learnt what layout on my magazine best suits my genre of music. I think if I had time I could have made my college magazine better but however I have shown through my effort on my music magazine on how much better I could have made it. I have learnt how to take a picture and what make my magazine look good and what colour scheme I have learnt. I have learnt that the colour scheme has to consistent. Overall I have to say that my music magazine has represented all the different cultures of music I was interested for my magazine. I have also shown through the different cultures of the models of what my magazine is about.

I have managed to meet before the deadline time. I have meet 4 days before the deadline which give me enough time to find out more ways into improving my work. I have found out more ways to improving my evaluation by getting feedback from the teacher. By finishing early I have reviewed my work and seen some more ways in which I can improve. I am independent; I have worked individually and have used my conscience and initiative to work on the evaluation in extreme detail. I have been a responsible student so I can see if there are any last minute touch ups before the deadline.