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

Before starting the whole media product about preliminary task, I feel I have learnt many things since I started at the preliminary task up until now, I feel I established a lot of originality within my media product by using original images, editing them to how I like them, also the layout of my magazine in my own way to make it suit my personal target group and audience, the exact colour of the fonts, and I feel they portrayed my target group and audience to a good average.

Therefore the most of my ideas were unique, although I did get some inspiration off of NME,Q, Kerrang magazine, as I wanted my magazine to be quite similar to this type of magazine, although everything I wrote in my media product were all my own words, and again all images were mine too, so all stuff was unique.

Although when it came to the technology part, at the begin I had a bit of difficulty to be honest, but as the time went on I found myself getting better and better until I was able to use all programmers quite easily. However I learnt more about how to use Photoshop because it was software which I never used, and I needed to get used to using the tools from the school magazine task. It was difficult to use at first but I became familiar with the features of the software and I was able to use them easily. Also my knowledge of Photoshop increased slightly with the use of tools, I learnt how to use the clone stamp tool to manipulate certain colours in my photos so they look clean cut and have a professional look. I also learnt how to download different type of fonts to use them for my pages.

The benefit of being able to download different fonts is so that I wasn’t incomplete of the style of text I wanted to use for my magazine; therefore I would be able to find a manly text that would suit my magazine the best. I downloaded a barcode text because it made it easier to create a barcode for the front cover of my magazine.

In general my understanding of Photoshop has improved because from the start I never knew how to use Photoshop at all but now I can use it independently. Over all I have learnt many since the beginning of this project, and it has helped me a lot.