Final Post-my media AS coursework experience

From this experience of planning, making, and evaluating my music magazine and creating my preliminary task, it has taught me many things. The best part of this task is when I actually made the magazine on Indesign and how I used Photoshop to edit all my pictures. I  also enjoyed taking the photo's and coming up with the articles to add in. This is because it is creative and gave me a responsibility to make it look as professional and like the magazines you would buy in a shop. The thing I least enjoyed was evaluating all of my work, mainly because I saw where my weaknesses were and how I could of improved it further when at the time it was too late to go back and edit. 

I am glad that we done the preliminary task because it was like a trial for the music magazine for using the programmes and getting experience on how to use it. From creating the preliminary task it taught me the things not to do when making my music magazine and also which features to use and carry forward to make my music magazine look professional and grown up. 

By using blogger to help record all of my work it kept me organised and efficient when updating it. I could customise it to suit me and label my blog entries to make them more organised and neat.

Overall, I really enjoyed the experience of the tasks and using blogger to record them on and from it, have learnt many creative and technical skills.

What I have used from using blogger

Since making my preliminary task and music magazine, I have been using blogger which allows me to post different entrys which shows my progress through the tasks I am set. On it i have posted essays, improvements i have made, used technology such as slideshare and prezi which present my research and evaluation in a clearer way. By using different technology and programmes it organised my work so it can easily be read compared to clicking on links. Blogger has helped keep my work together and in a formal way so nothing can be confused. I added labels onto my posts so my entrys are seperated into the right catagory.

Audience Feedback for music magazine

Evaluation question 6- looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learnt in the progression to your full product?

Evaluation question 5- How does your media product represent social groups

Interview analysis of my music magazine

Evaluation question 4- Who would be the audience for your media product? How did you address/attract your audience?

From my Prezi and also pictures of the pages from my magazine, you can see how my target reader; Helena Bates is attracted to my magazine. Other things that can make Helena attracted to my magazine are;

• The use of bright colours that stand out and make the pages look happy and friendly
• The captions below pictures and added information so it is easy to understand
• Pictures of people that are 'well known' and recognisable
• Chance to win competitions (easy to do for teenagers)
• Bold headings that highlight the reason for being on the page
• Clear and easy to understand text