Q7. Looking back at the preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to a full product?

Since doing my preliminary task I have learned alot of things and skills that have help me with my full product . One of the main ways that has help me was the way I followed real magazine conventions which has improve the quality of my music magazine massively. By looking back at my college magazine it shows that I wasnt really following the conventions as I had large coverlines coming half way across the page with even some of the coverlines moving on to the picture.

whille for my contents page I didnt finished which shows the poor time management that I had at the time of making this magazine compared to now as I have worked hard on my full product to ensure it is completed on time without any problems and to ensure that the quality is of a much higher standard and the fact that I have not followed a  simple convention of the same colour scheme shows the lack of understanding I had when doing the preliminary task.

Seeing as I used Photoshop for both tasks I feel that through the preliminary task I have learn more about Photoshop which has help me improve the quality of my full product and helped me learn from my mistakes that I made in the prelinminary task. Also the fact that I have only done a front cover and contents page in the prelinminary task while the main task also included these plus a double page which meant I got use to working on A3 canvas which meant I had to use the space effectively.

Through the process from the preliminary task to the main product I have fully understood how to attract my target audience by choosing a certain style of conventions to ensure that my magazine had that wow factor which caught the eyes of my social group and which meant I  had to do some background research into my social group to get a better  understand of how to  focus and ensure that my magazine is suited to this social group. With my preliminary I was targetting a mass audience as it was targetted at the population of  a college and at college their are different ethnicities which meant it was harder for me to appeal to this target audience which is why the research I conducted was very useful as it gave me an idea of how I was going to present my target audience in my full product.

Alternatively since the preliminary task I have learnt how to use the Canon E0S 400D which ensure I took good quality images which was virtual in ensuring that my magazine looked  professional, which in the preliminary task was a problem as I wasn't  familiar with the camera as I was taking pictures anywhere without the right lighting which meant my pictures didnt look professional.