Question 7

How I have bettered since the preliminary task;

Software;

When I first started my project, I had never used a blog before, so it was a first for me. As time went on, I got used to it and have produced a effective media blog.

From my preliminary task I feel that it is evident that I have picked up skills on the way. I think the way that I edited my pictures through the use of photoshop and also created different presentations through the use of Prezzi. I believe that these skills that I picked up helped me ensure that my project looked effective. Picking up on the skills I used to edit my pictures, you can see a great difference on my front cover and contents pages, which is what I wanted to succeed in when I first planned and organized my project.

Photography; 

I believe that you can see a huge difference in my photography, throughout the project, conveying the different skills I have picked up on the way. At the beginning of the project, I was shaky and my pictures didn’t come out as I wanted them. Also, most of them had no significant meaning. For my preliminary task, I managed to take 2/3 good pictures that established the genre and fit well into the magazine. Other than that, the rest I didn't like and had to scrap.  In difference, I went into creating my music magazine with much more confidence and I feel that the pictures I took for it looked relatively good. I used a mixture of shot types and angles to add a twist to the magazine and make it look more exciting, which was different to the ones from the preliminary task, as they were plain and boring.

Layout; 

Before starting my music magazine, I didn't really have much insight in how they were supposed to be laid out. However, with a bit of research and the use of the preliminary task, my knowledge of the layout grew stronger. Whilst my knowledge of the layout was getting stronger, I was learning the sufficient codes and convetions that a music magazine should have in order to grab their audience and potential readers. The conventions included the color scheme and the different types of headlines. You can see from my two magazines that my knowledge of layout got stronger, especially from my main music magazine.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I think that there is an obvious difference shown between the magazine for the preliminary task and the one for the main task. This difference has come from improvements in my techniques on such websites like Photoshop and also the fact that I now have a greater knowledge of the codes and conventions of a magazine. My photography skills also vastly improved, showing a difference between the two tasks.