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

For my preliminary task at the beginning of the course I had to create a college magazine, which was in preparation for designing and producing my final media product. From this task I gather greater knowledge about the software's, gaining key skills that would help me and experience working with programmes such as Photoshop for when It can to producing my music magazine. This was extremely useful as it meant we were more able to expand on what types of things that we previously used within this preliminary task and then improve our final product to make it look more professional. When working on the preliminary task I stuck to using only Photoshop and PowerPoint and didn’t explore a range of other software's. From then looking at my preliminary I have realised that in order my product to stand out and come across professionally I need to use  variety of different software's such as Dafont and Prezi and Go Animate which then improved my front cover massively.

 

 

What I have learnt from mostly is the importance of conventional magazine features. Without these included it make the product look less professional – as we can see from my preliminary task. The next few steps looks to what convention I didn’t include and the ones that I now have stuck to…

 

 

I have evaluate and annotated my preliminary task pointing out the mistakes and unconventional features, showing that I have now learnt new skills. I have developed my knowledge with the software as well since the start of year, and on what the conventions are that need to be included in order to produce a realistic magazine.