Evaluation Question 7- Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task?

Research and Planning: The prelim research was lacking in content, although I did do some there was nowhere near enough there for me to construct my magazine properly, confidently and with the right amount of knowledge. Whereas in my research for my final product I included things like; 

• a survey
• textual research influence
• research into institutions that distribute similar products
• research into potential target audience part one and two
•  primary target audience
• flat plans
• image analysis
• planning my article and more 

Prelim Task:

Media magazine- final:  

It's clear to see the progress my media products have made since my prelim task. My prelim task is extremely basic and simple; the fonts, image and background are all unprofessional and there's not enough sell lines/ insentives that would persuade the audience to buy the product. My final media product, however is much more professional and doesn't look as spars. The use of different fonts, colours and shapes exemplifies that I have the knowledge needed to make my product poressional. I have included things like, a skyline, an insentive, barcode, price, better sell lines, a more professional masthead and an image which looks good, all of which were lacking in my prelim task. Additionally, when constructing my prelim I did not have a contents or double page spread which is obviously all there in my final product. I think that with time my knowledge of using different technologies has developed hugely and has allowed my product to increase in content and quality. 

Evaluation Question 6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the process of researching, planning and constructing my media product I had to keep posting on my own blog. The allowed me to become used to embedding Prezi's, uploading images and power points.  I therefore become much more confident when using different technologies. 

I used Prezi several times throughout this unit. It is quite a simple way to create a presentation. I now know how to upload images onto it and add pathways from one slide to another. 

  An Apple Mac was used throughout the whole process of making the magazine, I had to learn how to do minor things like; screen shots, copy and pasting. it was very different from using a normal computer. It also included using applications like Photoshop and InDesign.

When using InDesign, I learned how to crop, re-position and move images in a different way to how I would normally do it. Additionally, when constructing my double page spread the column and page guidelines came in very useful, especially to ensure the magazine seemed professional. Finally, i had to know how to alter the file into a JPEG and when it came to printing my product i had to learn how to export the file etc. 

 

 Photoshop, at first, was very hard for me to get my head around. Although I had used it before, it wasn't to this extent. I had learned several skills of which came in useful when constructing my front cover; Changing font style/ colour/ size, cutting out different part of an image, using different layers and adding images, shapes and lines. 

Using slide share was fairly straight forward; uploading a presentation to put onto my blog.

 

 This is the camera I used when taking the photo's for my magazine. Learning about the different thirds of the shot and the positioning wasn't really that hard, zooming and flash are basic knowledge of using any camera. It allowed me to take my images easily, however enabled it them to still appear professional.