Question 7 of Evaluation

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

Yes, I feel that I have come a long way since the start of the year when I completed the preliminary task of making a new college magazine. I felt I didn't know much about using Photoshop and how to make a magazine or much about the common conventions of a magazine but as the year has gone on I feel that I have progressed in a positive way.

After the completing the preliminary task I realised that my skills on making a magazine needed a lot of improvement as I only achieved a grade E for the task. One of the main problems being I did not know how to use Photoshop to create the college magazine for the task. So I decided to watch tutorials on how to use all the tools on the program of Photoshop. I learnt a lot, and as you can see the improvement between my first ever preliminary task of creating a college magazine and to now when I have just recently finished creating my music magazine.


My front cove for the first task:


As you can see I havent really stuck to the conventions of a magazine, there page is really bland. The picture isn't really eyegradding and i haven't used any tools on photoshop to iprove the image as i didnt know how to use the tools in the correct way. I also used an IPhone 5c to take this photo, it was just taken on the stairs of my college. There was no use of props or costume and to be honest it was a last minute, hence why there was a very good outcome.

Now, my finished front cover coursework of my music magazine:

As you can see I have used a lot more of the common conventions that you would see on the modern music magazine. I have used a lot more techniques using the tools on Photoshop, such as plaster tool for perfecting Jades skin, getting rid of any blemishes on her skin, also liquefy tool that I have used to enlarge Jades eyes and lifting her brows which has created a more perfected look that you would see on the cover of a magazine. I took this photo with a Canon camera, in a photography studio. I told Jade to come dressed in a dark red top to fit with my colour scheme of my magazine. I also brought some dark red lipstick to fit. A prop I used was the nose ring you see Jade wearing, this is fake, it was bought from a shop by me to fit with the indie/rock style that my magazine in representing. A facial piercing really gives off that rebel sort of look that links to indie/rock.


Contents Page
 
Here is my frist task at my contents page for the college magazine that i did at the start of the year:

As you can see there is no use of images and the page comes a arcoss as being very boring. This is becoause I did this at last mintue so to be honest that contents of this isnt really finished. The magazine is meant to be weekly so thier should be about 60-70 pages to it. This only has 19.
 
What I lerant from this;
I lerant to give myself more time to complete task and to complete them at a higher standard then this.

Heres my finished contents page for my Music magazine:

I gave myself the time I needed to complete task and to complete them at a higher standard as you can see this is a massive step up from my frist task. I added images and more content to the page making is more exciting and interresting to the auidence. I also added a letter from the editor which persoanlly adresses the auidence making the auidence feel a personal connection to the magazine, making them buy the magazine agian.