Evaluation - Lizzie

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

Preliminary Task And Final Product.

Conventions

Going from the preliminary task to the final product i have learnt about the conventions of a magazine and everything that goes into it. In the preliminary task we had done research and planning for our magazine, like what to put into it and what goes where and whats needed. However developing from that to our final product i learnt more about WHY we need certain conventions and understood how their actually used to attract and address the audience. Unlike in the prelim task where we used conventions just because we knew we had to and just chucked them on the page wherever we thought it suited, in the final product weve used conventions purposefully and have actually undergone a process of where to put them and thinking about whats the best way to present it and whats a better layout to attract and catch the readers eyes. Ive learnt why we need certain things and that everthing has a meaning behind why its in its position on a magazine and not just because it has to be their. You can see the difference in my understanding from me deconstruction of magazines from my preliminary task

To a deconstruction from my final product and also my in-depth understanding from the case study i did.

Organisation

In the progression from the preliminary task to the full product I’ve learnt that our organisation had to be precise and efficient in order to produce an immaculate magazine. In our prelim task we distributed the work evenly and then did it on our own and then put the final bits and pieces together. We didn’t have much communication with each other and may be why our magazine was quite simple. But we learnt that we needed to work a lot more together. So in our construction of our final product we still did a lot of work separately but we also spent many hours together during free periods, lunch and break to bring it all together and discuss issues. We made checklists so we could see our progression and set targets for the week so we achieved things and kept up to date with deadlines.

Also we had many other things to do for our final product such as the photo shoot we had to add in all the extra parts to our organisation. I personally learnt that setting specific dates to meet targets helped to keep everything organised and efficient. We set targets for each other to get things done at certain times and the photo shoot we had booked a date, asked some friends to pose for us and made sure we had spoken to them about clothes and props so that they were purposefully chosen and had a connotation with our magazine and fitted into our colours and house style (unlike in the prelim task where we never even considered the colours of clothes and surrounding fitting in with the house style).

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Development of technology

I have learnt a lot more about the technology used in the progression from the preliminary task to the full product. I have learnt a lot more depth into Photoshop and how to use the tools to my advantage to manipulate photos and construct them how i want. As you can see from the links their is a massive jump from the basic use of cropping and text tools to actually being able to use more difficult tools and applying them affectively. I feel a lot more confident in using photoshop and as shown in my construction im able to construct parts of the magazine myself as ive lernt how to use all the different tools and effects in this programme.

Preliminary task

http://emilylizziemattblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/tools-we-used-throught-project.html

Final product

http://emilylizziemattblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/dps-construction-example-lizzie.html

http://emilylizziemattblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/napkin-construction-example-lizzie.html

http://emilylizziemattblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/construction-example-lizzie.html

http://emilylizziemattblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/tools-used-in-photoshop-and-how-we-used.html

Screenshots

An improvement we made and I’ve learnt is that from the preliminary task we didn't take many screenshots so we had no evidence of construction or the work we had done putting together the product. For our final product it’s something that we took into consideration throughout the whole progression and took many screenshots of construction and designing the product. I’ve learnt that this helps a lot as you can look back and analyse your work and you can see exactly what you’ve done. Taking screenshots of our work helped to show the progression throughout our process of constructing our final product. I learnt that this helps to show the relevance of things incorporated in our work.

Photos

In the progression from the preliminary task to the final product I’ve also learnt about editing and camera angles. From my prelim task I used a mid shot which was quite simple and then cropped one photo so it was a close up, but in my final product I’ve got different angles and heights to help give the magazine shape and appeal to the eyes. I’ve also learnt about framing where instead of me just putting block pictures, I’ve cut pictures out and based text and information around the picture so it flows nicely. (eg. In my double page spread there is a photo and the text is based around it and is purposefully done so to create a flow in the text and layout.)

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In conclusion from the progression from the preliminary task to the final product i've learnt a lot about the construction and all the work that goes into making the magazine and all the detail and thought and process you have to go through. I've learnt to make educated decisions into why i've chosen things and what is best for the magazine and why i'm using particular things.