Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
From looking back at my preliminary task I have learnt a lot of useful skills that have benefited me on my behalf of my production work that I was unaware of before. I made a brief flat plan that wasn't really effective and changed it several times.
I've taught myself how to use the softwares such as photoshop and indesign to construct my Music magazine front cover, contents page and my double page spread. At the start of the year I had to create a front cover and contents page for a school magazine. Looking back at it it's clear that I didn't know how to use the tools in photoshop correctly.
Personally I feel that I have learnt how to use photoshop more effectively in terms of using the tools properly to contruct my product. I now know how to use the Magnetic lasso tool and the Magic wand tool correctly when changing the brightness of my photo to stand out and to cut out my photo from the background.
I have discovered several camera angles knowing the effect that they can have towards the reader and the different effects it can have upon the magazine. previously in the preliminary task the angles at which my photos were taken were very flat and straightforward this however didn't portray the message of the magazine properly. http://tinadopelimitededition.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/magazine-front-cover.html
However with my music magazine the camera angels, facial expressions and body language of the photos are more effective in terms of it creating a relationship between the artist and my target audience.
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When taking my photographs for my Music magazine product I used a professional photographic scenery as well as lighting that helped me to create realistic images for my magazine throughout.
I balanced the lighting at both sides of the scenery when taking my photos so when I used photoshop I wouldn't find it to difficult. When doing this I learned that the lighting can create different moods and can be portrayed differently depending on how they are taken
I gained a lot of inspiration from other music magazines within my genre making my flat plan very successful in terms of where I was placing my conventions on my front cover, contents page and double page spread. This helped me go through my production work quickly without wasting time as I was able to go through it smoothly
From doing the preliminary task I now understand
why the reaseach was done in order to attract the right target audience. This
has prepared me to contruct my music magazine in the right way for the forms
and codes of conventions.
