What have you learnt or what skills have you

gained from doing the preliminary task?

By Tia Harding

• I have learnt the key elements that create a good magazine cover which are some of the following: masthead, cover lines, dateline, pricing, barcode, etc.

• I have also learnt how to use Photoshop in a more skilful manner and I am now able to edit pictures/work properly and in a more professional way.

• I have learnt that a flat plan is used to help design and give an idea of how the layout of a particular page will look. This allows me to focus on the positioning of specific terms like main image, masthead, dateline, etc.

• Here is an example of a flat plan.

• I have learnt how to use the blogging site, Weebly. This has allowed me to upload and edit my coursework in order for it to be marked and assessed so I know what I am doing right and what I am doing wrong. I have also learnt many skills through using Weebly, for example: how to create new pages, how to publish my blog, how to customize my blog in order to make it look unique, etc.

• I have learnt that target audience profiling is a written evaluation on your target audience characteristics, attitudes, what they like and dislike as well as what they believe in which help to understand the demographics and psychographics of them.