7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from its main task?

My prelim was honestly rushed, as I wanted to get onto my music maga-zine and not spend unnecessary time on the prelim. No planning or re-search went into my prelim and as I was in a group with another person all I had to do was edit it using Photoshop as I was on the front cover so I didn’t have to undergo and plan a photo-shoot for it. The prelim also didn’t allow me to develop my camera skills with a DSLR like my final product did.

For me, thinking of the genre for my magazine was the easiest part. I was debating between a pop magazine and an indie rock magazine be-cause I don’t think theirs enough of either available on the market. In the end I chose indie rock, as I know the most about the indie rock genre. Also, theres a few pop magazines for teenagers already on the market so creating a pop magazine would be unnecessary and probably wouldn’t generate as big of an audience as an indie rock would.

 Planning the layout for my magazine involved researching into existing magazines and creating flat plans which enabled me to visualise how I wanted my magazine to look. These flat plans also helped me in the construction stage as I had shown the conventions and where I was lo-cating these conventions,

 After creating my flat plans I compared them to real media products and presented this through the form of a power point this let me see the simi-larities and differences of my flat plans and existing products.

I showed very few lack of skills in my prelim: I tried to set the layout as similar to a magazine as possible by using a variation of font size, pric-ing, barcodes, headlines, etc. However, it still wasn’t the best I could do and I think I’ve shown my best ability in the final version of my maga-zine. I also think the variation between my prelim contents page and my final contents page is that I used the programme ‘InDesign’ which is what they use in the industry.

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Final product

Now that I have created a magazine that is to the industries standards I can say that I have developed my skills in media studies. I now know how to use a DSLR camera, use photoshop more efficiently and also use the programme ‘’InDesign’’ although it’s very com-plex, my magazine has taught me the skills I need to work the programme and I will apply these skills in future projects.