Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Evaluation question 7 - AS Media

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

When I first started my preliminary task I had never used Photoshop before so I did most of it with little knowledge of how to use Photoshop. This meant that the school magazine was very poor and didn’t really look like a magazine of any kind.

I did not edit my pictures in my preliminary task because I thought they were fine as they were. When I look back I know I could have used software such as picmonkey or pixlr to edit my pictures easily.



While researching for my music magazine I found lots of new websites I can use such as new font websites like fontspace, this meant I had a wider range of fonts to use for my music magazine. I also found presentation websites such as prezi and slideshare, this made me able to use a range of different presentation sites for my research and planning.

When I was creating my school magazine I didn’t really read magazines so I wasn’t aware of the conventions of a magazine. Since the preliminary take I have learnt the typical codes and conventions of a music magazine and the types of stories and images they would include in them.

When making my school magazine it only took me about 2 lessons to finish both the front cover and the contents page of my school magazine, however when I was making my music magazine it took me about 3 weeks to finish my first drafts of my music magazine. This shows I took far more care when making my music magazine than I did when making my school magazine.


When I made my school magazine I used two pictures that were the first two I took. However when making my music magazine I only used three pictures out of fourteen pictures I took. This shows that I cared more about the pictures I was going to use with the music magazine.

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