Evaluation Questions: 7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Before creating my music magazine I was set a preliminary task of creating a school magazine as you will be able to see in my first couple of posts. Or even below. By doing this it gave me a clear insight to what was up ahead and even though they were quickly drafted up it still took me awhile to get used to the software. Also you can see that the pictures aren't the best photos compared to my final Music Magazine photos but that makes it easier for me to establish the progression I have made in this course. The purpose of this prelim task was to give us an insight to the software's as I've mentioned but also to see how much time and effort that has to be put in to create the best product possible.

Because of the challenge I knew I had ahead I decided to research more into how to use the software's which were InDesign and Photoshop as I wanted my magazine to be the best I could possibly make it so I watched a few videos on YouTube and also checked out a few blogs just so I knew what all the tools were in each program and how I could use them in my creation of my products and it taught me a lot that I wouldn't of known about if I never did it. Another bit of research I did was looking at other competitive magazines in the industry as I wanted to see how they lay their magazines out and how the theme plays into the whole magazine.

 

Another step that I took in progression to create my final outcome was to create many mini drafts for each page that I was creating as this way I could pick out all the parts that I thought would suit my audience and try to play with them all to fit into the whole of my magazine and it also allowed me to make less mistakes with the software's because I had it all planned out and I had a vision of the final product in my head which really enhanced my final outcomes of my magazine.

 

Overall though I believe that I have achieved a lot more than I expected and it is all down to the time and effort that I put into creating it but also the research that I did behind the creation which made the product possible. Creating a magazine is a lot harder than it looks as sometimes what you want doesn't always agree with the software so you can find yourself fighting with the product to do something which I didn't expect but I came across which became very frustrating as I continued to create my magazine. By completing this task though gave me a sense of achievement and has also give me a better over view of Media and also Business which will help me in my other studies and to conclude maybe with a bit more professional help and time put to make the magazine more professional editing the little parts that may not be selling point that I could possibly be able to compete with other competitors within the industry in stores as well as online.