Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Evaluation 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt from the progression from it to the full product?



Preliminary Task

I think from doing my Preliminary Task i have learned a lot on how to produce a Magazine. Also improving on Photoshop would be my main improvement through the process of creating my product. As you can see there is a big difference from my prelim

task to my actual main product and i feel that using a style model really helps you and helped make my final product look professional.

for my prelim task the colours i have used are very boring but i think if i was to go back and start again with all the tips and what i've learnt through the this process on phototshop i would make massive improvements and add more effects and better colours.

For my Main task i feel that i have used much more detail and added more conventions such as quotes, more images, also i've added more colour and techniques throughout and made it look more like an actual magazine.
,main task front cover
Main task contents
preliminary contents
Evaluation 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Throughout the duration of constructing my media product i have learnt so much about the different technologies that are available. Its also been a massive learning curve and something that i can improve even more on when i progress into A2.

When creating my product i have learned how to use a canon EOS 1100D digital camera which gave me quality detailed pictures when i came to taking my photos for my product and i didn't fell that i had to edit them that much because of the quality. Also i learned about all the different shots you could take by using the rule of thirds on the canon like a medium close up, head shot, long shot etc.

This is the Prezi logo and used for my evaluation questions.
Also i learned a lot about Blogger which was something i had never used before so it was a whole new learning curve for me, but when i got taught step by step it became easy and i quickly started to make progress with my coursework. throughout the process we also learnt how to use Slideshare and Prezi which was very easy to use once you got to grips with it yet it was a good way to publish certain parts of my coursework.
This is the Blogger logo which was used for my planning and research



 







Lastly i found that photoshop was difficult to use when starting my prelim task and all the features were new to me but as i got onto my main task of creating my product i found that it was much simpler to use and i started experimenting with different effects and blending options to create good effects on my product. I really enjoyed using photoshop to create my Music Magazine.
This is the Photoshop logo and i used this to create my media product