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Evaluation q7 final

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Alex Parr
Alex Parr

The author discusses their progression from a preliminary continuity editing task to creating a full magazine product. They conducted significantly more research for the full product, analyzing aspects of existing magazines like front covers, contents pages, and spreads. This research helped them better understand conventions and attract their target audience. The author also learned how to use software like Photoshop more effectively to create professional-looking layouts and enhance photos. Presenting their work on blogs more professionally also improved. Overall, extensive additional research, learning new technology, and experience creating the full magazine helped the author massively improve over their preliminary work.

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Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product? Looking back at my preliminary task, the progression I have made in comparison with my final magazine is huge. Firstly one reason for my progression was the vast amount of research and development I partook in. During the preliminary task I did minimal amounts of research, and my magazine was expectedly inferior to my final product. Whereas, during the making of my full product I researched a number of different aspects of existing magazines. For example I researched and analysed three front covers, three contents pages and three double page spreads, this was hugely beneficially as it indicated to me the conventions and content of existing magazines similar to the genre of my magazine (NME, Q, Notion, and Esquire). Also I have learnt a lot about research and planning, through analysing colour pallets and fonts used by existing magazines. I did this in order to gain an insight of how to attract and appeal to my target audience successfully. I also created a target audience profile, where I had to identify the hobbies, interests and characteristics of an individual that would be interested and would read my magazine. Also another aspect of research and planning that bettered my knowledge from the preliminary task was when I researched the social group that I wanted my magazine to appeal to. This enabled me to specifically identify my target market in relation to the genre and style of my magazine. I did drastically more research and planning during my final product task than my preliminary task and this is evident in the difference in quality of my final magazine and the preliminary exemplar. I also leant how to research fashion styles that I liked using websites such as ‘UK tribes’; this enabled me to dress my models in relative fashion that would appeal to my target audience. Another reason for my progression was because I learnt how to use new technology and software more efficiently and increased my understanding of them. For example my Photoshop skills were hugely improved from my preliminary task for a number of reasons; I experimented and read the ‘How to use Photoshop’ manual at first. I then become more skilled with layering different elements of my magazine and this enabled me to place photo’s, text and numbers on different layers, which gave my final product a more professional look than my preliminary where I didn’t use layering. Also I learnt how to use
certain tools such as; the magnetic loose tool and the magic wand. Learning how to use these tools allowed me to cut out precisely around photos and enhance the aesthetics of the photos on my magazine by reducing the blemishes and touching up my models. Learning how to use Photoshop massively helped during the making of my magazine and is evident when compared with my prelim one (when I had poor Photoshop skills), this enabled me to create a professional looking magazine on the program. Also I learnt how to present my blog post work through programs such as Scribd, Animoto and Slideshare. This enabled me to present my work on blogger more professionally and in a more interesting way than using a standard Microsoft Word document. This was useful during the Evaluation of my product as I presented each question on a different word publishing program. Also my improved knowledge of the music magazine industry helped me to create of better and more professional full product. During my coursework process I read music magazines such as NME, Q and fantastic man. This gave me greater knowledge of existing magazine conventions that I could eventually use for inspiration for my final product. Overall I feel like I have learnt a massive amount in progression from my preliminary task to my full product.

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Evaluation q7 final

  • 1. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product? Looking back at my preliminary task, the progression I have made in comparison with my final magazine is huge. Firstly one reason for my progression was the vast amount of research and development I partook in. During the preliminary task I did minimal amounts of research, and my magazine was expectedly inferior to my final product. Whereas, during the making of my full product I researched a number of different aspects of existing magazines. For example I researched and analysed three front covers, three contents pages and three double page spreads, this was hugely beneficially as it indicated to me the conventions and content of existing magazines similar to the genre of my magazine (NME, Q, Notion, and Esquire). Also I have learnt a lot about research and planning, through analysing colour pallets and fonts used by existing magazines. I did this in order to gain an insight of how to attract and appeal to my target audience successfully. I also created a target audience profile, where I had to identify the hobbies, interests and characteristics of an individual that would be interested and would read my magazine. Also another aspect of research and planning that bettered my knowledge from the preliminary task was when I researched the social group that I wanted my magazine to appeal to. This enabled me to specifically identify my target market in relation to the genre and style of my magazine. I did drastically more research and planning during my final product task than my preliminary task and this is evident in the difference in quality of my final magazine and the preliminary exemplar. I also leant how to research fashion styles that I liked using websites such as ‘UK tribes’; this enabled me to dress my models in relative fashion that would appeal to my target audience. Another reason for my progression was because I learnt how to use new technology and software more efficiently and increased my understanding of them. For example my Photoshop skills were hugely improved from my preliminary task for a number of reasons; I experimented and read the ‘How to use Photoshop’ manual at first. I then become more skilled with layering different elements of my magazine and this enabled me to place photo’s, text and numbers on different layers, which gave my final product a more professional look than my preliminary where I didn’t use layering. Also I learnt how to use
  • 2. certain tools such as; the magnetic loose tool and the magic wand. Learning how to use these tools allowed me to cut out precisely around photos and enhance the aesthetics of the photos on my magazine by reducing the blemishes and touching up my models. Learning how to use Photoshop massively helped during the making of my magazine and is evident when compared with my prelim one (when I had poor Photoshop skills), this enabled me to create a professional looking magazine on the program. Also I learnt how to present my blog post work through programs such as Scribd, Animoto and Slideshare. This enabled me to present my work on blogger more professionally and in a more interesting way than using a standard Microsoft Word document. This was useful during the Evaluation of my product as I presented each question on a different word publishing program. Also my improved knowledge of the music magazine industry helped me to create of better and more professional full product. During my coursework process I read music magazines such as NME, Q and fantastic man. This gave me greater knowledge of existing magazine conventions that I could eventually use for inspiration for my final product. Overall I feel like I have learnt a massive amount in progression from my preliminary task to my full product.