Evaluation7

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

Before starting this coursework, I had to undergo a preliminary task. This task consisted of creating a school magazine cover and contents page, this was so that we could become more familiar and aware of using the programms and technologies, such as the digital camera, and adobe photoshop. The producing of the school magazine and contents page was very simple and basic, there was hardly any use the tools from photoshop, this is because was not familar with it, also it was the first time I had used the creative suite program.

As you can there is a huge difference from the shool magazine to the music magazine, this is because I had learnt so much different things during the duration of both of them. My school magazine lacked effectiveness, and when compared to the music magazines appears quite boring and dull. Especially the contents page, when compared to the main task you can see that there isn't anything very eye-catching and also appears very dull. To produce the both magazines, I used Adobe photoshop,but to give the best outcome for the music magazine I experimated with cutting out the figures, adjusting the brightness and adding effect.
I could say that my music magazine is extremely more appealing than the college magazine, this is because I added more sell lines, I included one plain backgound which allows the images and writing to achieve its boldness more and just made everything more eye catching such as the title being more clear and bigger and have more eye-catching images like the film strips with pictures inside of it.

I learnt that I needed to be a strict photographer as the models would not behave. I learnt this from when I did my college magazine, my models were very unreliable, they kept making jokes and not behaving properly, which is why for my music magazine, I made it clear that there ca only be playing when we have finished, also they most meet me at my house by 12pm, with their outfit, however if I did not improve of it, I went out to buy outfits for them, but to may surprise they brought the correct outfit.

Moreover, from collecting the audience feedback, I took into account all that they had to say which is what made me create my magazine like that, for example having a colour like brown, the genre being hip-hop and Rnb and the layout of everything.

There was two main problems. The first one was with the imagery. I had to keep testing the way the girls were standing and changing the background, for example having it in the morning or evening, to see which lighting would be better. I overcame this problem by taking different shots in the day, and when we had finished we will choose the best one. For example

The second problem was deciding how to do the front cover of the magazine, whether I would keep the background of the picture being used, however i overcame this by getting use to photoshop so therefore testing whether it would look better without it or not, which is how I came to the conclusion that the wall background had to be erased and replaced with a clear background.

My draftings were an inspiration to the development of my music magazine, I picked one of the draftings and developed more on it to prouce an end product.

When looking at the school magazine task and comparing it to the main task, you can automatically notice that there is a big difference in quality.The image on the main looks more realistic than that on the college magazine. Since completing the task I believe I have learnt so much and developed my skills with using the program Adobe photoshop CS3. I feel that I have become more creative and I am quite pleased with my end product.