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

If you look at both of my magazine covers you can clearly see with practice I have been able to target my audience a lot better. My actualy music magazine looks like a music magazine you may see being sold at news agents and retailers whereas the preliminary task doesnt really have a clear target audience even though it was meant to be aimed at 6th form students. In my personal opinion I believe that the preliminary task front cover looks more like a music poster from a distance instead of a music magazine, it doesnt really attract an audience because there isnt much that stands out even though the image has got a higlighted area with a black and white background.

I have realised the higher the production rate is, the better your magazine will actually look, with a lot of effort the magazine would look like a conventional music magazine if you have done the right research, especially the research into what your audience are hoping to see in the magazine.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Throughout this project I have learnt and developed my skills in different areas. These areas included using Photoshop, publisher and I improved my skills in photography during the production stage when I had to plan a professional photo shoot.

During the stage of my photo shoot, I had to make sure that I had planned it thoroughly a few weeks before so I knew what I would be doing on the day of the photo shoot. This was a useful thing to do because it allowed some time to get things ready for the shoot, which made the whole shoot a lot more successful than it would have been if things were unprepared.

Using Photoshop to design my magazine was really helpful because I had to make sure all the measurements were correctly positioned, also the composition of some of the things I had included on the page had to be perfect, so it looked like a magazine instead of looking like a poster. Although I have had previous experience on photoshop, this allowed me a chance to practice a different style of editing images and using photoshop.