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 tried to create the Preliminary task of
creating a college magazine I did not know how to use the right tools and
programmes for making it. I had never used a programme like Photoshop or
Indesign before so I have definitely learnt some skills in navigating these
programmes when trying to create my magazines. I had loads of problems with my
original front cover for my student magazine, the main problem being that I did
not apply the rule of thirds to my image, this meant that most of my text and
my puffs and plugs laid across my main image making my front cover all messy.
The font I used was hard to read due to the colour being the same as the
background and it didn’t give that much information, I used all of these
negatives to try and make my music magazine much better. Through having a lot
more time for preparation I was able to plan out where I take my photos for my
front cover, this controlled the whole style of my magazine, by taking the
photo that I took of an image in the woods of a girl in a flowery dress I was
able to signify to the audience the age group who I would sell the magazine too
the style of the magazine and the genre of the music through the fashion that
comes with it.
I produced a skills audit at the beginning of creating my magazines,
one of the skills need to improve on was skills in Photoshop, I had absolutely
none as I had never had the chance to use it before, this should through my
work as I used Photoshop to create both my front covers for my student magazine
and for my music magazine and my Photoshop skills have definitely developed as
the magazines covers have improved greatly, the are more spaced less messy and
much easier to read, this is all due to having more experience with Photoshop
and being more prepared for the task. Through creating my music magazine I do
feel there are areas where I could improve on if I were to do the task again,
one of these areas would be when creating my contents page I used Photoshop to
edit my photos together, in future when faced with this task I will use the
programme Indesign as it is much more suited to the task. I have learnt a lot about
time management and the certain tasks need to be completed in time to proceed with
other tasks, when creating my contents page I did not have a large range of
models for my photos to use so I had to wait to get more photos before I could
continue, If I were to be faced with this task again I would keep track of what
I have to do and have more deadlines for when they are suppose to be done by,
in doing so I believe I can be more on top of my work.
