Main Task Evaluation: Question 7

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

There have been many things that I have learnt from when I created my preliminary task to my final product. The first thing that I have learnt is the importance of my Planning and Preparation, in the preliminary task I had briefly gone through the planning stages and didn't spend too much time researching certain criteria to make my product successful enough. For my main task I spent much more time on this stage as I knew that by researching my target audience and understanding the key concepts of my target audience magazine then I would be able to replicate some of the concepts in my magazine to make it more successful.

Using different fonts was a new thing for me as I have never learnt how to use external fonts in photoshop.

The preparation stages allowed me to create a suitable time frame to follow to make sure I was on track to finish at the appropriate deadlines. I was also able to follow detailed designs/sketches to make sure I was not just creating a non-realistic magazine for the target audience.

The progression of different photographic skills that I needed to make my magazine successful improved from preliminary stages to the final product. I had to understand how to use natural lighting as I didn't want to use artificial lighting in my product.

The biggest thing that I have learnt through preliminary stages to the final task would be the use of software techniques that helped me create different effects. For example I learnt how to add lighting effects to make my work more interesting. Also I learnt how to add lighting flares which made the images stand out more.

If I was to make this product again, I would make sure that I analysed alot more magazines as I felt that my research into magazines was not as detailed as I wanted it to be. I would also have made sure that I had asked my target audience more questions thorughout my project to make sure that my magazine did not go off track and it kept up with the traditional features of the magazine.