Evaluation Part 7:

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

Preliminary Task:

Final Product:

What I’ve learned:• I learned the importance of appealing to a wider audience, as a school magazine

has an extremely niche audience, where a music magazine can have national or even international sales which greatly surpass those of a school magazine.

• I learned the importance of appealing to an audience and how to attract readers to a magazine in the forms of Mode of Address and interactivity.

• I learned the crucial role social media now plays in the magazine industry, with many having websites as well as printed magazines.

• I learned how to position a camera and take the best photographs for my article to look authentic.

• I learned the conventions of a music magazine.• I learned how to manipulate my photos using Photoshop by editing the contrast

and brightness to alter the way my model looks.• I learned about the different theories surrounding magazines: Used and

Gratifications, Marjorie Ferguson and Naomi Wolf.

• I learned that using a style model whilst creating my magazine was a great way to monitor how effective and authentic my magazine is looking.

• I learned how to utilise my colour palette and the range of colours that are suitable for the magazine, so it wasn’t overly coloured.

• I learned that I needed to keep a house style running throughout y magazine, using the same colours, and limiting the colour palette in order to keep the work all looking like it is from the same magazine.

• I learned different ways to present my work and put it onto my blog.• I learned how vital audience research is to creating a magazine, and how the audience is

extremely important to the survival of the magazine.• I learned about the music magazine industry and some publishers of the magazines and how the

market is shared. • I learned how to correctly set out and write a magazine article, this was done by reading articles

myself, as well as looking at the conventions of them, but reading them, and seeing how they are worded was the most important aspect to writing a successful article myself.

• I learned how to manage my time efficiently, making sure both my product and my research were complete, and not allowing myself to lack in either part of the project.

• I have learned how to work independently to a specific deadline, making myself a more independent learner in comparison to the beginning of the project.

Comparisons:

Summary

Shown by the side by side comparissons, my skills in all areas have improved since the creation of my preliminary task, and I have learned a lot of new skills since the beginning of the project.