James Lugsdin summarizes what they learned from completing a magazine project. They learned to: 1) Use drafting and planning to visualize work and allow for changes before completion. 2) Conduct research to develop ideas for the magazine's content and style. 3) Create an effective time plan to stay organized and on schedule. 4) Develop technical photography skills like lighting and camera settings.

1. What I’ve Learnt
By James Lugsdin

2. Drafting helped me to
visualise my work and gave
me the ability to change the
work if it is not what you
wanted.
Its very Important as
it is the basis for all
work. Fail to plan, After using drafts in
plan to fail. my previous magazine
Planning and I felt they help me so I
made more in this
Preparation task.
Research is what gives In my preliminary So in this task I
you your ideas on what task I did little decided to learn from
your magazine should research and my mistakes and do
look like. didn’t have my to some in-depth
help me with my research.
production of the
magazine.

3. This was my time
plan I created on
I learnt how to make an
windows outlook
effective time plan.
calendar.
Organisation of Time
I realised the importance of
sticking to your time plan
and not getting behind on
work.

4. I learnt how to you certain
settings on the digital SLR
I learnt the importance of
cameras.
the location of your
photograph.
Technical Photography Skills
Lighting is vital part of the
photography process.
I realise that
for the best
photo indoor
is much better
for controlling
lighting.

5. Used a British African on my
cover to represent my social
group and to meet the
stereotypical standards of my
genre.
Conventions of Magazine Covers and
Contents Pages
I found out that less
can sometimes be
better and that a page
if too busy can be
overwhelming.
Also I learnt how to
make a page into three
columns.

6. For example I learnt
In this task I found how to put in
out how to make use gutters to help in
of more In design separating my
feature which helped columns.
me.
Post-Production Skills
In the preliminary In terms of image
task my partner did manipulation I
most of the image found out how to
manipulating so for use the saturation
this task I had to tool and the clone
learn for myself. stamp tool to from
any unwanted bits.

7. I chose a young jazz
musician who my target
audience can relate to.
Awareness of Target Audience
Featured articles that
are points of interest
for my target audience.

8. The Biggest Thing I Have Learnt
I believe the biggest thing I have learnt
from this project is time management.
In this task compared to the preliminary I
constructed a time plan which helped my
to stay I track.

9. Have I Attained My Targets I Set At The
End Of My Preliminary Task
At the end of my preliminary task I set targets for
myself to help me improve in the next task.
My main objective was to stay on top of things by
having my own deadlines for each part of my task.