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

From looking back at my preliminary task it is obvious to me that I have learnt many things since creating it when comparing it to the final product.

In the preliminary task I had nowhere near the extent of knowledge that I have now and so I have been able to incorporate more of this into my final product. One example of where I have done this can be seen in the overall quality of both of the products. It is obvious how much improvement I have gone through by looking at both products next to each other.

Looking at all of the pages immediately you can see how much I have learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the final media product. One of the more noticeable changes is the fact that image quality has been drastically improved as on the preliminary task the images look very blurred and out of focus whereas on the final product it is far clearer and makes the magazine look far more professional they are also better positioned on the final product as more space is utilized due to the shape of the images whereas on the preliminary there is a lot of wasted space. So it is clear that I have learnt how to take better quality photos and also how to effectively utilize the space that is provided.

Looking at all of the pages, you can also see that I have learnt how to use Microsoft publisher more efficiently as the final product has far more depth and detail than the preliminary magazine and this is because I have learnt how to use all of the different tools within publisher.

You can also see that  have learnt how to effectively incorporate the codes and conventions of the contents and front pages as on the preliminary I had no knowledge of these codes and conventions and so was only putting things where I thought they should go. On the final pages and in my analysis of codes and conventions you can see how I have incorporated many of these concepts into my final product.

I have also learnt how to use many different concepts effectively as I was working for an extremely specific audience and thanks to the research I conducted into this audience I was able to use photographs of people they would look up to and create an effective mode of address for my audience that I was only able to achieve after learning all about who they were through my research.

Another thing that I have learnt about and incorporated into my product during this project is about the different theories involved in creating magazines. I may not have used them all in my own product but I have learnt how to recognize the male gaze theory, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, uses and gratifications theory and the theory of hyper reality. All of these theories have meant that I have learnt why magazines are presented in the way they are and they allowed me to make magazine follow some of the ideas too.

In conclusion, looking back at my preliminary task it is obvious to me that I have learnt a huge variety of things in the progression to the full product and this has allowed me to create a very professional looking magazine especially when compared to the preliminary task and I hope these skills that I have learnt will be useful for the foreseeable future.