Question for evaluation

1. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from its main task?
My prelim was honestly rushed, as I wanted to get onto my music
magazine and not spend unnecessary time on the prelim. No planning
or research went into my prelim and as I was in a group with another
person all I had to do was edit it using Photoshop as I was on the front
cover so I didn’t have to undergo and plan a photo-shoot for it. The
prelim also didn’t allow me to develop my camera skills with a DSLR like
my final product did.
For me, thinking of the genre for my magazine was the easiest part. I
was debating between a pop magazine and an indie rock magazine
because I don’t think theirs enough of either available on the market. In
the end I chose indie rock, as I know the most about the indie rock
genre. Also, theres a few pop magazines for teenagers already on the
market so creating a pop magazine would be unnecessary and probably
wouldn’t generate as big of an audience as an indie rock would.
Planning the layout for my magazine involved researching into existing
magazines and creating flat plans which enabled me to visualise how I
wanted my magazine to look. These flat plans also helped me in the
construction stage as I had shown the conventions and where I was
locating these conventions,
After creating my flat plans I compared them to real media products and
presented this through the form of a power point this let me see the
similarities and differences of my flat plans and existing products.
I showed very few lack of skills in my prelim: I tried to set the layout as
similar to a magazine as possible by using a variation of font size,
pricing, barcodes, headlines, etc. However, it still wasn’t the best I could
do and I think I’ve shown my best ability in the final version of my
magazine. I also think the variation between my prelim contents page
and my final contents page is that I used the programme ‘InDesign’
which is what they use in the industry.
Prelim -

2. Final product

3. Now that I have created a
magazine that is to the
industries standards I can
say that I have developed
my skills in media studies. I now know how to use a DSLR camera, use photoshop more
efficiently and also use the programme ‘’InDesign’’ although it’s very complex, my
magazine has taught me the skills I need to work the programme.