When I place my preliminary task beside my main task I can see how far I have come in the way I go about my work. The idea of the preliminary task was to get used to how Photoshop and other functions work, so I did not make it the best I could have as I didn't know how to do some things then that I can do now. You can see that before hand I used a lot of colour in the way I designed my preliminary task however after researching other magazines, I noticed that the majority had white backgrounds. This may be due to printing costs or simply because white is the colour that looks the best so that a picture can stand out more. As well as this, I noticed that using white allows you to use a lot more colours than on a coloured back ground. One of the main things I noticed when creating my music magazine was the length of time it took me to do different things. When creating the school magazine, it did not take very long as I simply took pictures of other class mates whilst at school and then quickly uploaded them when we got back to the class room. It was a lot different for my music magazine. I had to find a model that would suit my music genre and article I wrote for it, and from previous posts you can see how indecisive I was as in total I used four different models. I also realised how hard it was to get the right shot. After taking a set of photographs and showing them to my teacher and other friends, I realised that they were not as good as I thought. My original plan was to do one photo shoot, however the reality is, you need either one shoot with hundreds of photos, or a variety of different shoots with different people and different mise en scene.
Another difference in the creation of my magazine compared to the school magazine was the software that I used. For the preliminary task, I purely used Photoshop as it was simple and easy
to use and edit pictures. As well as this, InDesing was not something I was aware of until after I had finished the magazine. Using Photoshop for the first task proved helpful to me when creating the music magazine as I was able to do more things and experiment with different things such as lighting effects and the changing of colours.There are some similarities with the magazines that I have produced. Both have an appropriate amount of cover lines on that would encourage the target audience to pick up and read. As well as this, the mode of address is similar to my music magazine. Both are informal as they are aimed at the younger generation. My music magazine is aimed at the younger generation as well as the older generation so the use of colloquialism and slang was used in my double page spread. If i had to have created a double page article for my school magazine, I would have used the same sort of language I did with my music magazine so as to relate to the reader and make them feel that they were part of the magazine.
Overall, I feel that I have learnt a lot since creating my school magazine. I have managed to develop my computer skills by using different a different computer than I have at home and also develop my skills and gain new knowledge of software that I have never used before. I have also learnt how to connect with the reader more by carrying out extensive research. The research allowed me to have an insight to what my target audience is like and how they are categorised within society.
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