The document discusses what the author has learned from completing a preliminary task and creating a full media product. Specifically: 1) The author learned about positioning models, camera techniques, Photoshop skills, target audiences, and sentence structure for different media types. 2) Completing the preliminary task taught the author about using high quality images, deciding the target institution, and designing an effective masthead. 3) In creating the full product, the author applied lessons on following media conventions, using inspiring words, effective color palettes, and featuring a model from the target audience.

1. I have learnt that you need
The positioning of the model, I I have also learnt how to use the camera on I have also improved my to find out what the target
also found out after what types of shot create the best effect for Photoshop skills to make it look audience likes – so that you
completion of the preliminary my media product and how they have to link professional by taking out the can put it into your media
task that you needed to think in with text which accompanies it. Also backgrounds of my images, product, so that it will
about the denotations and the when doing the preliminary task I found imperfections and also learnt appeal to your target
connotations of my models. I that when you use a camera with good what you need to have in an audience, and so they will
also learnt what you needed image quality it ensures that it looks image to ensure that it matches buy your media product, so
to focus on, and what needed professional and a believable media my articles and magazine as a you are able to get money
to be in the shot itself. product. whole. back from your media
From the completion of my preliminary task, I found product, so that you can
that you needed to decide which institution you had continue creating and selling
I have also learnt how to structure the
for your media product, and the effect it would have on your media product.
sentences for my media product as music
magazines have different language and my media product. (Where and how it would be sold)
sentence structure compared to newspapers
or books. This is especially the case, when
you compare music magazines that are
7. Looking back at your I have learnt that you need to find
out who your target audience is –
targeted at different age ranges and genders. preliminary task, what do you feel what is it about your media
But for my media product I also had to learn product, that makes you think
how to inspire my target audience with you have learnt in the progression that that age group/gender would
inspirational words/phrases, so I had to
learn how to do this too.
from it to the full product? prefer your media product to
others? Have you got research to
support this?
I have also found from doing my preliminary task that I have learnt how to position
my masthead so that you take full advantage of the page, also so that it looks like I have also learnt that when creating a media product you need to
other magazines and keeps to media conventions. Also, I found that my preliminary keep to media conventions – what to type of angles, shots you
task masthead looked unprofessional, uncreative and just didn’t stick to media need to have for each page/article, how many images you need to
conventions, and it just didn’t make the magazine itself stand out or send the right have on your article/page, who/what should be in the image,
message to my target audience as for my final product I have used where it should be placed on the page, what font/style/size of
so that my target audience knew before even looking at the whole text to have in your article/page/media product and how much
magazine, that it was a music magazine which selling point is to inspire their target text you should use for each page/article). When deciding on
audience. doing this I had to keep in mind the effect it would on the final
product of my media product for my images, text, layout and
From doing the preliminary task I feel that I have learnt not only what colour overall look of my media product. For deciding my model, I have
Positioning of masthead, what a be best to use so that itlike
palettes/schemes would masthead should look appeals to my target audience but also learnt that you need to have someone from your target
also where to place certain colours. I know that I have progressed as in my audience to be in your media product as this is what they do in
preliminary task I had text which you weren’t able to read clearly and it didn’t look real life music magazines. I also had to think about what my
very structured but for my final product I used colours to my advantage as I used model should wear as for all it wasn’t a fashion magazine, their
certain colours to make specific things stand out, as this is what they do in real life clothes/accessories needed to look both appealing to my
music magazines. audience and professional, so that my media product looked
believeable.