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Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
I have learnt a lot in the time from the initial school magazine task to my music magazine.
Photography-wise, my skills have improved as I know about camera angles, shot distance, lighting and mood etc. I now know how to achieve the look I want.
I know about the layout of magazines alot more, do can use my knowledge and implement it into my own layout. This can be things like mastheads/titles and article layouts to drop-caps etc.
I now know that fonts can be used as a house style and that you need to carefully pick suitable fonts in order for your magazine to look neat and tidy.
Modes of address are very important in magazines, and allow you to change the mood of the magazine very easily, from using full grammar and correct spelling to using slang like 'innit'.
What I learned in the planning and research for my college magazine translated to my final products quite well. I knew the kinds of questions I needed to ask, as well as the ways to make my magazine fit the requirements of my target audience - what content the magazine should have, for example.
Photography-wise, my skills have improved as I know about camera angles, shot distance, lighting and mood etc. I now know how to achieve the look I want.
I know about the layout of magazines alot more, do can use my knowledge and implement it into my own layout. This can be things like mastheads/titles and article layouts to drop-caps etc.
I now know that fonts can be used as a house style and that you need to carefully pick suitable fonts in order for your magazine to look neat and tidy.
Modes of address are very important in magazines, and allow you to change the mood of the magazine very easily, from using full grammar and correct spelling to using slang like 'innit'.
What I learned in the planning and research for my college magazine translated to my final products quite well. I knew the kinds of questions I needed to ask, as well as the ways to make my magazine fit the requirements of my target audience - what content the magazine should have, for example.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
For my product I've learnt to use multiple different technologies such:
Photoshop:
I learned lots from Photoshop, for example, how to crop images using the magic wand/quick selection tool, how to change the appearence of an image and how to use layers effectively.
Blogger and Flickr: I used these to annotate and analyse my work and real magazines. Compared to conventional methods like pen and paper, or even just typing out my analysis on Word, it feels very different. For example, on Flickr, as there is a set amount of words you can use and you need to use select areas, I found myself being quite limited as to how much I can analyse and to what extent. With Blogger, I found explaining myself and my ideas harder than if I were to write it down, which a downfall, but then again, I like Blogger and find it very useful for feedback and the way you can put words and pictures together more easily.
Photoshop:
I learned lots from Photoshop, for example, how to crop images using the magic wand/quick selection tool, how to change the appearence of an image and how to use layers effectively.
Blogger and Flickr: I used these to annotate and analyse my work and real magazines. Compared to conventional methods like pen and paper, or even just typing out my analysis on Word, it feels very different. For example, on Flickr, as there is a set amount of words you can use and you need to use select areas, I found myself being quite limited as to how much I can analyse and to what extent. With Blogger, I found explaining myself and my ideas harder than if I were to write it down, which a downfall, but then again, I like Blogger and find it very useful for feedback and the way you can put words and pictures together more easily.
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