Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it now to the full product?
The progress I made from the preliminary task of creating the college magazine to my final piece, the Indie music magazine, has been huge. I have greatly improved my abilities when using the software at hand.
Looking back at my preliminary task, I feel that I have now learnt and understand the forms and conventions of a magazine. I can now put this into practice to make a successful magazine. I understand how music magazines use unique techniques and features to draw their target audience in.
For my research I did the bare minimum for my preliminary task, I briefly browsed the internet to find some college magazines. I found one called, 'College', it was an american magazine but it had all the concepts that I liked. Other than the inspiration I took from that, my college magazine was purely based upon my own ideas for a magazine. For my final piece, the research was meticulous. I researched the cover, contents and double page spreads of other media products such as 'Q' and 'NME'. Thus giving me knowledge about codes and conventions. I gathered knowledge of props, models and locations that I should use for the mise-en-scene of my final piece. I also researched institutions such as IPC Media and Bauer Media. This gave me quantitative and qualitative information about the media industry. I have posted all of my research on blogger. This allowed me to find any information I needed during the process of making my magazine. You can see my research was of a much higher level than when I started with my preliminary task.
When starting the production of my preliminary task I had a limited amount of skill on Photoshop and InDesign making my product a poor quality. When it came to my final piece I had vastly improved my computer skills. I could now use the software to a decent level which helped improve the look of my magazine. The biggest changes from my preliminary to final product were seen in the contents page. I believe my final contents page was a massive improvement on my preliminary product. In the images used on my cover, contents and double page spread , there was evidence of my knowledge of mise-en-scene by using the guitar microphone and other props as well as location and costumes. Other improvements in my production was due to the demonstration of media conventions through all three pieces. I used some ideas taken from the contents page and double page spreads of 'NME' and 'Q' to influence my own. But at the same time I managed to keep my style 'Indie' and unique which follows the genre of the magazine. All the fonts I used throughout the magazine I found through using InDesign and believe that they would help to represent the style of my magazine. I kept a house font throughout my product it was called 'Baskerville' I tried to use this as much as possible to keep a theme. As well as producing my products I have produced many articles on my blog documenting my progress. When I finished producing each article I posted it straight to Blogger.
From looking back at what I have achieved to now I feel that I have vastly improved every aspect of my ability. My use of InDesign and my knowledge of how to use it has greatly increase. I now have a decent understanding of how to create an authentic looking magazine. I now know how to edit photos and use Photoshop to a reasonable level. An example of this can be seen in my double page spread where an image has been edited and has improved significantly.
Overall, I think I had a varied experience completing my coursework, I think I've made huge leaps from my preliminary piece to my final product. I think have managed to convey the codes and conventions of similar media products very successfully in my final piece. My improvements in the use of Photoshop have made an overall improvement to the quality of my product in contrast with the preliminary and arguably displayed the biggest difference in the two pieces. My skills using things such as Photoshop, InDesign and SLR Camera have improved dramatically as has my general knowledge of the media. If I were to attempt this task again, I would feel extremely confident and more capable of doing it in a shorter time and to a higher quality. I am overall very proud of what I have achieved.
I have placed all my work below.
I then moved onto my final product
Looking back at my preliminary task, I feel that I have now learnt and understand the forms and conventions of a magazine. I can now put this into practice to make a successful magazine. I understand how music magazines use unique techniques and features to draw their target audience in.
For my research I did the bare minimum for my preliminary task, I briefly browsed the internet to find some college magazines. I found one called, 'College', it was an american magazine but it had all the concepts that I liked. Other than the inspiration I took from that, my college magazine was purely based upon my own ideas for a magazine. For my final piece, the research was meticulous. I researched the cover, contents and double page spreads of other media products such as 'Q' and 'NME'. Thus giving me knowledge about codes and conventions. I gathered knowledge of props, models and locations that I should use for the mise-en-scene of my final piece. I also researched institutions such as IPC Media and Bauer Media. This gave me quantitative and qualitative information about the media industry. I have posted all of my research on blogger. This allowed me to find any information I needed during the process of making my magazine. You can see my research was of a much higher level than when I started with my preliminary task.
When starting the production of my preliminary task I had a limited amount of skill on Photoshop and InDesign making my product a poor quality. When it came to my final piece I had vastly improved my computer skills. I could now use the software to a decent level which helped improve the look of my magazine. The biggest changes from my preliminary to final product were seen in the contents page. I believe my final contents page was a massive improvement on my preliminary product. In the images used on my cover, contents and double page spread , there was evidence of my knowledge of mise-en-scene by using the guitar microphone and other props as well as location and costumes. Other improvements in my production was due to the demonstration of media conventions through all three pieces. I used some ideas taken from the contents page and double page spreads of 'NME' and 'Q' to influence my own. But at the same time I managed to keep my style 'Indie' and unique which follows the genre of the magazine. All the fonts I used throughout the magazine I found through using InDesign and believe that they would help to represent the style of my magazine. I kept a house font throughout my product it was called 'Baskerville' I tried to use this as much as possible to keep a theme. As well as producing my products I have produced many articles on my blog documenting my progress. When I finished producing each article I posted it straight to Blogger.
From looking back at what I have achieved to now I feel that I have vastly improved every aspect of my ability. My use of InDesign and my knowledge of how to use it has greatly increase. I now have a decent understanding of how to create an authentic looking magazine. I now know how to edit photos and use Photoshop to a reasonable level. An example of this can be seen in my double page spread where an image has been edited and has improved significantly.
Overall, I think I had a varied experience completing my coursework, I think I've made huge leaps from my preliminary piece to my final product. I think have managed to convey the codes and conventions of similar media products very successfully in my final piece. My improvements in the use of Photoshop have made an overall improvement to the quality of my product in contrast with the preliminary and arguably displayed the biggest difference in the two pieces. My skills using things such as Photoshop, InDesign and SLR Camera have improved dramatically as has my general knowledge of the media. If I were to attempt this task again, I would feel extremely confident and more capable of doing it in a shorter time and to a higher quality. I am overall very proud of what I have achieved.
I have placed all my work below.
I then moved onto my final product
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