What have I learnt from the preliminary task?
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The preliminary task helped the author learn skills that improved their full music magazine product in several ways: 1) It provided practice with the design software before the major project, allowing things to run more smoothly. 2) The research and planning process informed them on magazine construction and best practices. 3) Gaining photography experience through pictures for the preliminary helped when shooting for the magazine.
What have I learnt from the preliminary task?
- 1. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
- 2. The preliminary task was done quite quickly and I’m not particularly proud of the front page. However, I feel it was a great way to start the coursework rather than just jumping into the music magazine. I had the opportunity of working with Pages again, after almost a year since my Year 11 newspaper coursework, and get myself familiarised with it again before so that when I started the magazine, things were running smoothly. The whole researching and planning process before actually making the magazine also helped me a lot since I learnt so many more things about magazine construction and benefited from expert advice from the editors of NME when we visited it as a class. When I started making it, I feel I had a clear idea of what I should and what I shouldn’t do due to experience gathered when making the preliminary and from researching and visits.
- 3. Maybe the factor that helped me the most was that I had to have pictures taken by myself on my preliminary task. This enabled me to work with the camera and learn to do things that would later come in handy when shooting the pictures for my music magazine. Getting the lighting and the background right on the first time is quite tricky so it was excellent to have tried to do it to a high standard before. I really enjoyed creating the contents page. I made it colourful to fit with the age group and added a suitable background for students. I really got into it and maybe that’s what got me the most excited about creating a contents page for my music magazine.
- 4. I believe that the experience of having already done a contents page before made me aware of what I should include, how to position the text and how to chose colours that would be suitable for my target audience. In contrast to the school magazine’s bright, playful contents page, I created a dark and rocky one, matching my audience. Another thing that the preliminary really made me conscious of is the target audience. Whereas I had been doing things before because I they seemed right and appealing to me, I started to question my decisions based on the likes of my target audience.