Here you can see my final product compared to my first prelim task I completed in September. There is a cleat difference in the quality of the two pieces and I am extremely proud of the improvement I have made.
Obviously, I feel that the most important things
that I have learnt during the process is how to use the technology I used to their best of my ability in order to achieve the final look of my product. On my prelim task I had little experience with the software I used and I feel that comes across in my school magazine cover. I used pages to create my prelim magazine cover and when it came to create my final music magazine cover I choose to steer aware from using this software as I didn't think it was suitable and didn't have the capability to create the look I wanted to go for. I instead opted for Pixlr, and I initially had trouble using it but after I got the hang of it it seemed the best software I could of used. Overall, I think that by learning to use different technology and playing around with different software to use really abled me to complete my final product to the best of my ability.
Another major thing which I have learnt during the process of creating my prelim and final task was general skills that I needed to use. As you can see, compared to my prelim task I use much more complex features in my final task in order to create the orofessional look I aimed for. I learnt how to use more adventurous fonts in order to match my genre as well as learning to overall make a better looking magazine cover by choices of images and style.
Leading on from this, I learned that research is crucial when trying to create a media product. For my school magazine cover I did barely any research into the construction and ideas behind the over all look of professional magazines whereas when completingmy final task I did a lot of research in depth. By researching everything from my already existing music magazines to magazines publishers really helped me to understand the reasonings behind the conventions of a magazine.
Prezi! This has played a major part in the process of my coursework and has been one of the most helpful things I have learned. It is a fantastic piece of software and has really helped me complete my coursework to a higher standard. At the beginning of the course i had never used prezi but I began to use it and after a few attempts I feel that I had mastered the skill. This also helped me learn that there are different ways of presenting things and doesn't have to be the standard typed essay.
As a result of the deadline I really had to be time conscious and learn how to manage my time effectively so I could get everything done. As part of my time management I had to learn to plan what I would do next in ordr yo allow me to complete everything In good time.
The research was a lot different to what I'd done before as well as we were doing it a lot more in depth so this was something new we had to learn. Other things I did in more depth were thinking throughly about our photos and creation of our products. For instance i thought about and planned where i would be taking our photos rather than just taking them randomly. I also had to pay attention to smaller details when creating, an example being a barcode on the cover which is something you wouldn't typically think about.
Overall, I am very pleased with the skills I have learnt through the duration of this course and believe that they have abled me to complete my final piece to the standard I did.
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