Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in your progression from it?5/4/2017 In terms of pre-production, I feel my time management skills have improved since the preliminary task; since then I have been more organised with conducting photo shoots, collecting results from questionnaires and sticking to deadlines. In the preliminary task, I was not able to allow myself ample evaluation time and the quality of my work was mediocre. I did not ask for any feedback or spend time in the planning process for the preliminary task. For example, I did not gain any feedback from my peers on my photos or feedback on the production process. I realised throughout the process, feedback from my target audience is crucial to help me make decisions and illustrate what the audience desire and would make them engage with my media products, which is very important. I have found that if I work efficiently and spend more time doing Media Studies, I am able to evaluate my work a lot more easier and understand my products benefits. If I did not do enough research into different pop magazine brands and analyse different media products then it wouldn’t give me options and ideas for constructing and therefore my final products would not be ineffective. In order to plan to succeed, the research I did helped my progress throughout this process when looking at broader ideas and eventually making sure my products engaged and targeted my audience correctly.
I have progressed enormously with the technology and construction of my final products. In my preliminary task, I did not use In-Design to create my final products, I used Publisher. This definitely restricted my ability to create professional products and created something which looked satisfactory. In Publisher, I could not edit my images or enhance them in any meaningful way. I was restricted to using only a number of fonts which my target audience could not choose in questionnaires. Also as editing in Publisher is extremely minimalistic, my contents page was very boring and dull compared to the product I have created now. My final product looks professional in the fact that I have included different fonts on different sections, this adds clarity to my work. My final product is definitely more structured as I created margins and guidelines to help me with a balanced structure and it guided me for where I could draw my text and photo boxes. With my final products, I had conducted research like questionnaires to help me decide what to do. Without these editing softwares, I would definitely have struggled to create layouts expected from my target audience and the draft I designed. My target audience also helped me decide on colour schemes, appropriate fonts and so on. As I previously stated in my preliminary task, I was unable to do this so therefore that task struggled to conform to that specific target audience which means it would’ have been less effective and less engaging. My photography skills have improved significantly. After the preliminary task, I arranged photo shoots with people who were suitable for my magazine. I learnt about the different camera shots such as using: close ups, mid shots, long shots and what the effect was of this. By understanding what effect this gives to the audience, I could establish which one would work best. In my preliminary task, I just took a few pictures and picked one that looked good. This is very unprofessional. By improving this, I conducted different photo shoots and followed my photo shoot plan document. This saved time as I knew exactly what I needed to do, yet I also left myself spare time by doing a few experimental shots. One thing I struggled with in the preliminary task was getting feedback from peers in my class and on social media. Feedback is valuable information that will be used to make important decisions. I got feedback on my front cover and on social media forms like Facebook. I also gained feedback on my article draft for my final double page spread. My teacher helped correct any grammatical errors. Teachers can help me amend any errors which I can learn from and especially since my target audience would see my media products, it was important that there were no errors. Overall, I have developed throughout the process of my AS year. I became more organised and perceptive which helped me with researching, constructing and designing my final products.
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