Question 7 - Evaluation

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

From doing this course I have learn many new skills – for example, how to use Prezi and how to use Photoshop. When comparing the preliminary task with the Music magazine you can see the huge difference in the outcome and how I progressed. You can also see the different things I have learnt whilst creating.

This is my final outcome for my college magazine and my music magazines. As you can see there is a huge difference between the two.

When we did the preliminary task I was aware that Photoshop could do a lot of different things but at the time I did not really understand the true extent to what it could do – especially as much as I do now.

I learnt lots of different skills when learning to use Photoshop such as how to; cut out an image then put it onto another background, how to change someone's eye colour, how to edit a photograph to make it look brighter/more colourful etc, and also how to add lighter and darker tones.

On the college magazine you can see that I did not use anything to catch the readers attention – like I did on the music magazine. I also did not think about using the correct fonts and font sizes – I now realize that every little detail, including where something is positioned, is very important and must be considered.

On the music magazine you can clearly see how I progressed and how I learnt new skills. When making the magazine I considered the age for my audience whenever I thought of something, I made sure that what I was doing was age appropriate e.g. not too old and not too young, this is to keep the audience interested – from my research I learnt that no reader is going to buy a magazine that they think will not suit them or is for their age group.

From now on I think that I will see things differently – now when I see a magazine on a shelf I understand why they have written certain things, also why they have used certain pictures. It is all to catch their readers attention, to keep them interested and to keep them reading – it is also to draw in new people as well as keep their original readers.