evaluation question 7

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

I feel I have gained knowledge of how a magazine should be layed out, the common conventions it must include and what makes a magazine look professional. I have learnt this by doing lots of research into sale figures, circulation figures and different types of music magazines that still get published and have readers.

I am alot more confident on photoshop now I have finished the whole product. I feel I am able to contruct more, complete tasks independantly, and create what I want with planning. I didnt use InDesign on my school magazine, however I used to create my music magazine as the best of my ability and I feel I have learnt a new skill on how to use InDesign aswell as photoshop. 

I am pleased with the outcome of both the magazines I contrusted however, I feel there is an improvement in the music magazine. I feel I included very small detail to the music magazine which I may have forgotten about in the school magazine such as page numbers, links and thought lots more about mise en sence. 

I definatly learnt that it is important to plan how you are going to take your pictures, make sure a model is definatly going to be there, the surroundings fit in well and costume. I feel that these are important aspects to making a magazine look more appealing and professional. My knowledge of camera angles has improved, I learnt that there are certain angles which look best on certain parts of the magazine, for exmaple a mid shot, which is from the waist up of the person, is best for the main image to capture there emotion and draw in the auidence.