The document discusses the learning and progress the author has made from creating a student magazine to a music magazine. For the student magazine, they did not pay enough attention to detail or research existing magazines, but learned with the music magazine that details like photo quality are important for a professional look. They also learned that Photoshop is better than Publisher for editing photos and creating a more polished product. Overall, the author learned that magazines require extensive research, planning, and attention to detail.

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.