Jake Booth - AS Media

Friday, 1 April 2011

Evaluation: Question Seven

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

At the being of the course I completed a skills audit on how will I could use a Mac and programs on it, I was not very good at many of these tasks as I had never used a Mac before. However over the course I have learnt and developed knowledge on how to use a Mac and its programs. Compared to the preliminary task that I did of the college magazine there is a clear improvement, as I become familiar with the Mac and how to create a professional magazine. From the two magazine covers below you can see how I have improved and developed over time. In my preliminary task, the college magazine, i did fill all the spaces well as there are still a lot of spaces and I haven’t included a main story, however in the music magazine project there is no more space for any more taglines and I have included a main story that stands out and looks very professional. Also the colour scheme for my music magazine is much better than the college magazine as it’s got more than one colour and the colour links with the main image. I feel I have learn how to use programs such as photoshop to a greater effect to create a more visual effective magazine. I have now been able to use websites like blogger, flickr, prezi and slideshare to great effect to present my project and having not used these programs before I picked them up very easy and will continue to use them and create more great work like my music magazine.