Joe Morton reflects on improvements from his preliminary task to his full music magazine product. He learned to better use software like Photoshop and Quark Xpress, demonstrated by higher quality covers and contents pages. His photography skills grew as he experimented more with angles for more interesting photos. Over time, he better understood magazine layout codes and conventions, seen in the improved overall design of his music magazine compared to his preliminary task.
In what ways does your music magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of existing music magazines?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
In what ways does your music magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of existing music magazines?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
1. Joe Morton Looking Back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
2. Using Software Mainly since the production of my preliminary task I think the way I use and my ability to use software such as Adobe photoshop and Quark Xpress has improved greatly and you can see this clearly from the difference in how the different covers and contents pages look.
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4. Photography From the making of my preliminary task to my Music magazine it’s clear that my photography skills have improved. On the photos taken for my music magazine I experimented with angles which made the images more interesting whereas the ones for my preliminary task where all taken from a straight angle which look a lot more boring and plain.
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6. Layout Before creating my preliminary task I didn’t have much insight as to what a music magazine should set out like and all the codes and conventions. Over time my understanding of the codes and conventions have improved and this can be seen in how the two magazines look .
7. Conclusion In conclusion I think that the difference in quality of my music magazine and preliminary task can be seen clearly. And this has been done by the improvements with my use of software and photography and my understanding of codes and conventions.