The student has learned that attention to detail is important for magazine production. With the student magazine, they did not consider details and layouts of existing magazines, but with the music magazine they focused on professional details in photos and layout. They also learned that Photoshop is better than Publisher for image editing. Photoshop allowed them to improve photos by removing backgrounds and editing skin textures, while Publisher only allowed basic edits. Through the process of creating both magazines, the student has learned about the importance of research, details, and thought that goes into magazine production. It is not as easy as it seems and requires unprecedented research and consideration of decisions.

1. Evaluation
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2. What have you learnt about
the conventions of magazine
productions and what
progress have you made from
the student mag?
I’ve learnt that attention to detail is the important factor
when portraying the conventions of a magazine. With
the student mag I hardly took into consideration any
detail or looked at any existing one nut what the music
magazine I found that to get it looking professional the
detail and depth in everything from the photo graph to
the layout is extremely important.

3. With the student mag I decided to only use publisher
which I think was wrong because Photoshop allowed me
to improve the pictures in a major way from helping to
remove the back ground of my model to the actual skin
texture of the model it made life easier. Publisher is a
very basic program and it only allowed me to make
mediocre choices leaving me not entirely happy.
Whereas the music magazine felt complete because if the
editing I was able to do with Photoshop. Also I didn’t do
much research into the student magazine which made it
harder for me to construct one that looked genuine this
can be seen in my odd decisions for instance the font
colour I chose.
Think about every aspect of both productions
and scrutinize every decision you made?

4. From the initial sketching I knew what I wanted to do
this is because hi hop is my favorite genre of music so I
incorporated my vision into my product, although it was
a difficult challenge for example in my dps my model is
seen to be holding money which isn’t easy to obtain
considering I am a student and don’t work. But there was
easy more enjoyable bits like creating the article for the
Dps, there aren’t many opportunities do to things like
this. I have learnt a lot from the transition from a student
mag to music mag this is due to factors like the amount
of detail that goes into a magazine, its not as easy at its
appears to be, the thought process and level research
required is unprecedented.
Think about the production as a journey form
the initial sketching to the final product?

5. What have others said
about your magazine
since you finished it?
Since I have finished my
magazine I have received
nothing but positive comments.
My targeted audience and peers
have complemented my use of
models mostly and my
photography skills. I used these
to portray hip hop culture well
and that the use of props and
costumes had also giving my
magazine a realistic view of the
genre.