Music Magazine: Front Cover

Music Magazine: Contents Page

Music Magazine: Double Page Spread

Pre-lim Cover Page

Pre-lim Contents Page

Evaluation Question 7

Research and Planning

My planning skills have more than improved since I began. At first, I may have took no more than 10 minutes to draft an idea for what I was going to set out to do. Now I put in far much time and thinking, taking things like mise en scene and props into account before taking my shot. (As seen when I replaced my front page actor). In my prelim task, my shot was so straight forward that you can tell I had put no effort into the shot. Whereas in my music magazine shots, there are a variety of poses, clothing and a microphone prop. The extra thought put into the shot reflects on the end product.

Photoshop

Photoshop allowed me to get more advanced knowledge not only editing shots, but also taking them. When I had retook my shots, I took into account how they were going to be presented on my already finished front page. I adjusted not only the actor, but also the lighting so that the shot was easier to edit around with in photoshop.

Time Management

My time management has also greatly improved, my prelim task was rushed, almost last minute and the date in which I had planned to take the shots got pushed back further and further until I realised I had very little time to edit the actual front page / contents page. In my music magazine task however, time management was the key to ensuring my product was finalised and I was happy with the result.

Prelim vs. Magazine

My prelim task is greatly flawed and shows through the lack of any sort of planning or management, the end result of it was very basic, plain and straight forward, there was nothing particularly inspiring about it what so ever. My final product, the music magazine on the other hand sticks to conventions whilst including original ideas which shows the thought behind the magazine pages.

Evaluation Question 6

What Have I learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Blogger

Blogger is a website I have never heard of before. It allows users to create their own online blog, making posts to its followers that may include pictures or text. I feel like blogger was insanely important in getting my work finished, as the site is great for recording and sharing ones progress. Looking back at my blogs, I can see that there is much improvement made.

Photoshop

Photoshop is a very advanced piece of software which I had no skill in prior to starting my project. All the way from my pre-lim task, I have learnt so much about this app: how to manipulate layering, text editing, guidelines, proportions etc. There is still much to learn but the amount of information and techniques I have processed is astounding.

Slideshare

Slide share, much like blogger, is a website which I had never used previously. Throughout my media work, I have discovered slide share to be a most valuable tool in checking on my progress and approaches to questions and conventions of my magazine. Slide share offers me other inputs of the same topic which allow me to take notes and slowly make my work more conventional.

Youtube

Youtube, being the largest video streaming platform as of right now. I was very familiar with it. However, I learnt of a whole media-related community on the site, where people post videos on topics related to my coursework and where I was able to fetch other peoples ideas and learn a lot of new things regarding my subject.