7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Looking back at my preliminary task I can definitely see that I had made a lot of progress, not only in my practical work but in my written work too, my preliminary blog was sloppy and had barely any post I had barely done any research or proper planning for my product, and although my final piece was not as bad as I though it would be it wasn't that great either, it seems like back then I had cared to much about creating the product instead of researching into the conventions or planning the product, this was one of the issues that I wanted to tackle whilst doing my actual task and I believe I had. I had made sure to do intensive research into my target audience, the conventions I am going to be using, how I want my audience to react to my product and why I had chosen to do what I did.
Another progress that I have made through the preliminary task and my actual task is in production, in my school magazine I had just asked a random classmate to puss for a picture for my magazine and had not even planned on where to shoot the photographs or how my model should pose, but in my actual task I had planned two photo shoots for my two models who I had already asked in advance if they could model for me, I had also planned on the outfit, set, lighting, camera and even posses I wanted for my photoshoot. Much like photography fonts also played a big part in the progression I had made in my media work since the start of my preliminary task, back in the preliminary task I didn't understand the importance of fonts let alone how to use them successfully to get the best outcomes for my product, in my preliminary task I had just slapped on random fonts onto my product instead of planning on where I wanted them, what size I wanted them and why I wanted them like this; this made my work look very unprofessional and messy but thank god I had finally gotten to understand the beauty of fonts and their importance to everyday publications, for my actual task I had researched into what fonts go well with each other and what fonts would suit the tone and genre of my product.
Overall it seemed that planning and production where my two major issues in my preliminary task and I had conquered them successfully I look forward to future task and to see the progress that I will make between this piece of work and any future piece of work that I produce.
