Evaluation Question 7

My preliminary task was to produce a college magazine along with a double page spread. During this task, I found using photoshop very difficult, the skills I have now have helped me progress into making my main product. One important thing  I learnt during this task is to improve the quality and layout of my magazine. Although my magazine did not look like a real magazine because I was not clear on the convention of what a real magazine looks like, which made my magazine look poor and looks more like a leaflet to me. Therefore with this prelimanary task, I have learnt that convention is main part of a magazine. My use of photoshop has improved looking at the main music magazine I produced. With this photoshop it made my handwork look more professional and I was able to make different choices of what my magazine would look like. Although I was not able to manipulate my preliminary task to my own  best intrest.

Another thing I have learnt that is important in a magazine is the image. Before making this product I had to take different images using a Canon E05 400D camera, with this camera it give a good quality of images. Although using this camera was diffciult for me at the time  I was told that in order to take pictures outisde I do not need the flash but for my college magazine I needed to take this images outisde in order to get a better quality.

With this task, I also feel like I have learnt something different, the reason for this is because at first I found it difficult to put the image on photoshop and also since the preliminary task was to create a contents aond a front page, I found it hard to choose the canvas. I have learnt how to chose the canvas that suits a front page, contents page and a double page spread. Also in order for my magazine to be in a smooth line I was able to use the grid tool either vertically or horizontal in ordet to make my magazine look professional.

The main thing that stand out for me in my magzine is that whilst I was making my preliminary task I did not go in depth of who my teengers were going to be. I did not carry out audience research because it was a premilianary task which was difficult for me whilst doing my audience research for my music magzine.  I have learnt that for a magazine the main thing is who the targets audience are and social group; people that would find my magazine attractive and would want to buy it when they see it in the shop. Using my audience research, it gave me different idea of  what my audience would like to see in a magazine.