The document discusses how the student's research, planning, and development of skills influenced their magazine project. They gained knowledge of industry conventions which helped them work professionally. During production, they organized their files and used checklists to stay on track. In their final product, they applied photography skills like using lighting and cameras properly. They also learned page layout skills in InDesign, like using guides and tools to make text and pages look neat. The student found appropriate fonts from online instead of using defaults. They also cast models that fit the "Indie Rock" genre. Overall, the content was more thought out to engage the target audience compared to their preliminary work.

1. Question 7
Research and Planning

2. Influence
My genre, primary and secondary research
influenced my work and made me want to
strive to be as professional as possible with
my own product.
Through this I also gained a lot more
knowledge of the forms and conventions of a
magazine. Developing my skills benefitted my
work by allowing me to work to the best of my
ability; a professional standard. By learning
about the forms and conventions of my genre,
it allows my product to be more in line with
real media products.

3. Organisation
During my production I tried to keep
track of all my work, making foldering
for specific things and saving things
with names that make sense when I
go back to them so i wouldn’t lose
files.
I also made my self check-lists and to-
do lists for every take and set myself a
deadline to have certain tasks
completed on time to improve my work
methods from the Prelim task.

4. Question 7
Construction

5. Photography Composition
I was able to develop my skills within this area
using a better camera and the studio within
college.
The lights that were available in the studio enable
me to create a bright photo without a lot of
shadows which is what i was aiming for. I learned
how to use a light meter and set the aperture and
shutter speed setting on the camera in order to
ensure that my photograph wasn’t over or
underexposed. This is clearly evident in my final
production as compared to my prelim task as the
models don’t have a slightly yellow tint on them,
unlike in my prelim task.

6. Page Layout
As i develop my skills in Photoshop and
InDesign i was able to place guides on my
work to be able to align my sell lines to the
left or right hand side of the magazine. This
gave it a clean cut look leading it to being
more professional looking.
I could use tools on the toolbar to cure and
lead my sell lines white allowed me to group
certain words as a topic on the page. On
Photoshop, I could also use the ‘Stroke’
effect to allow words to stand out against the
background so that they are easily visible.

7. Fonts
Instead of using the default fonts
that come with Photoshop and
InDesign, as i did in the Prelim task,
I searched, myself to find the exact
fonts I wanted to use for each
component of my magazine.
I used Dafont.com to find the
perfect fonts I was looking for,
downloaded them from the website
and installed them into the
software.

8. Use of Models + Mise en Scene
For my prelim task, finding models was
only about availability, hence why my
prelim didn’t have a clear genre. However
for my final product, I needed the models
to suit the genre that i had chosen ‘Indie
Rock’.
Because of this, I used models that fit to
the description of the ‘Indie Rock’ persona
(long, raggy hair etc). This is different to
my Prelim as there wasn’t a need behind
the project to actually sell my magazine to
an audience.

9. Content
Instead of the content being generalised
and just quick ideas, the contents for the
main product was though through to be
able to catch the target audiences
attention. for example, it needed to have
musicians advertised in the magazine
that were of the ‘Indie Rock’ genre, to
colour used needed to be fit in with the
rest of the page and look professional,
the offers/deals needed to be suitable for
the younger generation, hence free
posters and information on upcoming
gigs/albums.