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- The document discusses the learning and progression between the author's preliminary task and final magazine product. - For the final magazine, the author conducted audience research and learned magazine conventions to better target the magazine. This made the final product more like a real magazine. - The author learned new Photoshop skills like using different fonts, downloading custom fonts, editing images using filters and tools, and including shapes to draw attention. These skills improved the visual design and quality over the preliminary task. - Overall, the author's skills in researching audiences, understanding conventions, and using design software grew between the preliminary and final pieces. This allowed the author to create a more effective magazine.

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Evaluation – Question 7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I think that there is a very clear development from my preliminary task to my final piece. Firstly, to create my magazine, I did research into my audience, and into the kinds of products that were already out. I learnt about the conventions of magazines, and what techniques are commonly used, and was then able to adapt this to my own magazine based off of the results I received from my audience research. This meant that my magazine was more targeted to a specific audience, whereas my preliminary task wasn’t, and therefore didn’t quite work as well. It also looks less like an actual magazine as it doesn’t include the conventions of a normal magazine cover. I think that the layout on my preliminary task’s contents page and my magazine’s contents page have similar layouts, however, my knowledge of conventions allowed me to develop this, and to create a much more detailed and better organised page.
As well as this, I have learnt about Photoshop, and how to use it to create what I want to create. In my preliminary task, it is clear from the way that the cover was made that I was unsure of all of the different ways that I could use the programme. Much of the font is that same, the colours are all similar, and the style is very simple. For my actual magazine colour, I learnt about the range of different fonts that I could include, even downloading a font from a website and including this in my magazine. I would never have even thought of doing this in my preliminary task. I also learnt about editing images. In my preliminary task, I raised the brightness and contrast of my image, but was unsure of what else I could do. For my magazine, I learnt about how to add a filter, as well as using the correction and clone tools to edit the model’s skin and create higher quality images. I think that this is definitely evident when the images are compared side by side. I also applied this new skillset to the other images in my magazine, like those on the double page spread and my album covers. Another new Photoshop skill was the use of shapes. I included boxes on the page to make certain parts of the text stand out from the rest. I didn’t do this in my preliminary task, and I feel like the text all appears to blend into one, as nothing really grabs an audience’s attention. Overall, I believe that my skillset has improved a lot from my preliminary task. I have learnt about technology, but also about conventions of magazines and my target audience, allowing me to create a much better, more effective magazine.

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Question 7

  • 1. Evaluation – Question 7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
  • 2. I think that there is a very clear development from my preliminary task to my final piece. Firstly, to create my magazine, I did research into my audience, and into the kinds of products that were already out. I learnt about the conventions of magazines, and what techniques are commonly used, and was then able to adapt this to my own magazine based off of the results I received from my audience research. This meant that my magazine was more targeted to a specific audience, whereas my preliminary task wasn’t, and therefore didn’t quite work as well. It also looks less like an actual magazine as it doesn’t include the conventions of a normal magazine cover. I think that the layout on my preliminary task’s contents page and my magazine’s contents page have similar layouts, however, my knowledge of conventions allowed me to develop this, and to create a much more detailed and better organised page.
  • 3. As well as this, I have learnt about Photoshop, and how to use it to create what I want to create. In my preliminary task, it is clear from the way that the cover was made that I was unsure of all of the different ways that I could use the programme. Much of the font is that same, the colours are all similar, and the style is very simple. For my actual magazine colour, I learnt about the range of different fonts that I could include, even downloading a font from a website and including this in my magazine. I would never have even thought of doing this in my preliminary task. I also learnt about editing images. In my preliminary task, I raised the brightness and contrast of my image, but was unsure of what else I could do. For my magazine, I learnt about how to add a filter, as well as using the correction and clone tools to edit the model’s skin and create higher quality images. I think that this is definitely evident when the images are compared side by side. I also applied this new skillset to the other images in my magazine, like those on the double page spread and my album covers. Another new Photoshop skill was the use of shapes. I included boxes on the page to make certain parts of the text stand out from the rest. I didn’t do this in my preliminary task, and I feel like the text all appears to blend into one, as nothing really grabs an audience’s attention. Overall, I believe that my skillset has improved a lot from my preliminary task. I have learnt about technology, but also about conventions of magazines and my target audience, allowing me to create a much better, more effective magazine.