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

The preliminary task of this project involved making a college magazine and the main task  which was to complete various tasks and create a music magazine which was meant to have a: front cover,contents  page and double-page spread, and eversince then I have seen the strong change and improvement In the way that my magazine is presented. At first I wasn’t experienced in using photoshop and was clueless when it came to editing my college magazine at first I was focusing on making my college magazine look good unfortunately I failed in doing so and also unintentionally forgot to apply general convenetions  to my college mag and this can be seen in my magazine.

In the process of creating my college magazine I begun to test various tools in order for me to learn all the functions of these tools eventually I started to also watch videos on youtube on how to do certain things with my magazine and how to improve the image and quality of my music magazine. And I also gained information on what people would expect to see in a music magazine by carrying out an unstructured interview on a blackberry device, and I used the answers given to me by those who answered the questions by taking in their advice.

In general, my media magazine has that professional look, as my accurate outline of how my magazine would look was planned in advance, this enabled me to construct my own personal music magazine, with a number of examples from conventional music magazine, to help give me a vivid idea of what I was going to do with my music mag. I was capable of using my information from previous blogger research tasks, to help me create my music magazine, which tremendously helped me, in the beginning of the plan for my mag.

I also planned getting my hands on camera from college as soon as possible and I did this in order for me to avoid any problems, another thing that I planned on doing was choosing a place to take my images I had to also remember that I needed a model so I told a couple of my mates to avoid any problems and fortunately one agreed to do so which eventually made the process of taking my music mag photos  easy. A huge amount of pictures were taking just to be on the safe side I planned which pictures were going to be used in the magazine.

Other than that from the process of creating a music magazine to the process of making a music magazine I discovered how to perfect the image of my magazine, and also learnt how to grab the attention of my target by following conventions of popular music magazines. I also established the social group that my magazine focused on based on the genre of my magazine. Unlike my college magazine which I really didn’t focus on the social group that  my college magazine would focus on or on any aspect of my magazine.

At first I struggled at using various items like cameras and editing software, since I could not get the precise images that I wanted to have on my magazine. Other than that I developed the abiltity to perfect and fix up my magazine which was nothing like how my college magazine was presented in the preliminary task.