Evaluation Q7.

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

Below is the response to my seventh evaluation question of the coursework task, I began by answering the question in essay for, i then decided to create an interactive presentation using the online presentation editing software: Prezi, this can be seen below.





Here is the text format of what is included in the Prezi:

Now looking back at my preliminary task for my coursework, I feel that I have learnt so much about the production and distribution of magazines. I feel that my knowledge of what audiences want within a magazine, and what they want to read about has improved greatly.

 I feel that the area I have learnt most about though and the area in which I have made my biggest improvement in is my Photoshop skills. This is because throughout the production process and the whole coursework task I have watched videos and tutorials on YouTube teaching me lots of different skills and techniques to use on Photoshop, and now when you place my preliminary school magazine and my final music magazine next to each other my preliminary task looks really amateur in comparison.

Another thing which I feel that I have learnt in the progression from my preliminary task to my final production is how to take and effective professional looking image. The main factor in achieving this is the type of camera that you use, initially in the images that I used in my preliminary task I just used a simple point and shoot compact digital, where as for my final photo shoot, I used the canon 550d professional DSLR camera which helped me achieve highly professional looking images. Also another thing which contributed to the professional feel of my final photo shoot was the professional white back drop and high key studio lighting because in my preliminary task photo shoot took place in a corridor with quite poor lighting whereas in my final photo shoot I was more involved in asking my model to pose in different positions, it was easy to compare these things because I used the same model in my preliminary task as I did for my actual task.

Thirdly a thing that I have learnt with magazines since completing my preliminary task, in regards to the contents page, is that they need some sort of structure in order for readers to navigate easily to stories and articles of interest. I achieved this in my final coursework task, by splitting the articles in my magazine in to three separate categories: News, Reviews and features.

I think that being asked to complete the preliminary task was a great help to me finishing and completing my final coursework product to a high and professional standard because it allowed me to make mistake and see what i should not do when constructing my real magazine.