Evaluation: 7) Looking Back at your Preliminary Task, what do you Feel you have Learnt in the Progression from it to your Full Product?

Looking back my preliminary task I feel I have vastly improved many skills. 

Firstly, I researched further into music magazine than school magazines. This gave me a better idea of how to make my final product as authentic as possible.

Whilst planning the production of my magazine I took much more into account and consider the codes and conventions of music magazines in much more depth.

This led me to produce better photos that were more suitable for the magazine. I spent longer consider the most appropriate features of mise-en-scene to incorporate, this included the urban setting and clothes worn by the models. 

I then spent longer editing the photos using a wide variety of tools in iPhoto and photoshop, I did not spent as long on this stage of the production when creating my student magazine. 

As well as this the textual content was much more genre specific and relevant to the magazine and magazine content in my music magazine project as I spent longer considering and researching what my target audience would be interested in. 

My photoshop skills also progressed, I used a wider variety of skills whilst producing 'SWAG' which enable be to produce a much more realistic result. 

Throughout the whole production of my music magazine I displayed my work on this blog using various different tools and programmes such as blog format, Microsoft PowerPoint, Prezi, Photoshop (reader profile), Garage Band, iMovie and through converting word documents to jpegs. This helped me develop and build upon an array of skills.