Skills Development

I feel looking back at my preliminary task I have progressed a lot simply in my understanding of media and the technologies in a whole. By doing the preliminary task it made me think twice about what genre of music my magazine was going to be about and also what research I needed to do to make a worthy magazine. Also thanks to the practice of the use of Photoshop during the preliminary task I feel that my final products where much better fitted together as I had already created a slight understanding of Photoshop. For example I have learnt a few more tricks like grouping layers together, the history window tool, which allowed me to experiment a lot more whilst creating my magazine as I wasn’t in fear if loosing or messing my work up.
I feel after doing the preliminary task it allowed me to think about the amount of research I needed to do to create a challenging magazine for the market. So I looked through a variety off different magazines and searched up via the web for music magazines. And looked for a music genre what didn’t have a lot of competition that’s why I choose grime. I feel by doing the preliminary task I taught me not to always go for the obvious and to attempt to look for a gap in the market.
I also feel by doing the preliminary task it made me realise how much attention I had to put into the detailed parts of my magazine. As the tiniest little thing can make something complete or just plain and simply make something look odd.