Looking back on my preliminary task, I feel I
have learnt a lot from the differences in the preliminary task and the final
media product; this is because I have learnt a lot from my initial mistakes
that I may have made in the preliminary task. Also I have learnt about using
different technologies in new initiative ways. I have learnt a lot of ways to
better present my work in a lot of new programs. And I also have learnt more
ways to make a better piece of a media product. I have learnt many things on
how to construct and present images for media products, I have learnt on how a
magazine should present itself to a particular social group and how to make it
stand out and appear better. And from these particular factors this has made me
produce a better magazine in general.
The first improvement I had made to the
initial task was to improve the appeal to certain target audience which I did
not use to full use in the initial task , and I explored this feature in my
music magazine which work rather well, although the target audience was still large.
I finally targeted my magazine to people who enjoyed the rock genre, and
explored sub-genres such as: pop-rock; indie; and alternative. I did this by
adding artists of this genre and making up my own artist that is depicted as
those genres by basing them on other artists of those genres. I was able to do
this by researching how different artists/genres are presented by magazines and
followed this into my own magazine. Overall I think I improved in using this
feature on a whole.
Secondly, I believe the quality of photos I took
in general are better than those of the preliminary task. In the preliminary
task the photos are generally not of good quality, such as the shot of the photos
are generally not thought of as in the final task I experimented with which
shots would look better with the overall basic layout of the magazine. Also the
lighting was not of very good quality with the initial task and therefore did
not present itself very well to the reader as in the final task I made sure
that all the lighting was to the best quality I could make it. Finally, the
overall quality of the photos are better in the final task rather than the
initial task because in the final task I made sure that the camera was set to
its best capability. Apart from the quality of the image I also depicted change
in the body language of the models, after doing research on how to present
certain genres in models/artists I followed this into my own work by present
these artists in a way that would help represent their genre. Overall, I think I
improved the quality of the photos that I took for the magazine.
Finally, another improvement I had made to my
magazine was the text and masthead. In the initial task the masthead was not
really thought of and was added in a few minutes, as to suppose the masthead in
the final task was thoroughly thought off and experimented with and tested with
the basic magazine layout and worked better than in the initial task. Also that
overall text is better in the final task, because in the initial task some of
the common text may have not been as easy to read as to suppose to the final
task. Also the text on the cover is generally improved because in the initial
task I tried to pack in as many fonts as possible, but with the final task I stuck
to bold and easy font throughout the magazine which generally improved it for
reading and appeal.
Overall I think I generally improved my
quality of skills from the initial task, but some things like use of color house I think I generally used rather well throughout both magazines.
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