LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMNARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODCUT?

During the process of improving and tweaking my three magazine pages, front cover, double page spread, and lastly the content page, has helped me immensely in terms of improving my Photoshop skills, and overall progression. I have learnt that it is vital to make sure the quality and focus of the image is to a good standard, in order to for the image to stand out on the pages. Looking back at my old images, I am able to identify that I had taken clear images, however, the editing of the images let me down immensely, simply because I failed to adjust the brightness and contrast of the images, alongside add the correct filter. However, second time around, I have successfully been able to produce high quality pictures, making sure that the filter and editing of the image went well with the backgrounds and the model.

Furthermore, looking back at my previous magazine pages, I have been able to identify that I used a number of fonts, and colours, which led to the magazine looking a mess, because the text was all over the place. How, my re-submission consists of tight faces, which makes the text font consistent, and a lot more appealing. The magazine pages look a lot more professional and captivating.

Moreover, when comparing the audience feedback to the new audience feedback videos, one is able to identify that the audience can more easily spot the codes and conventions of the improved magazine pages, alongside the neatness and quality of pictures. This is evident that I have improved the codes and conventions and have made the new magazine pages look as realistic as possible, when comparing to real life hip-hop magazines.

Lastly, I feel choosing the correct colours is highly significant, seeing as appearance is the key feature that grabs the audience’s attention. Therefore, through the process of researching real-life hip-hop magazines, and identifying they types of colours they use and how they contrast them, I decided to change the colours of all three of my music magazine pages; front cover, double page spread, and lastly the content page. From looking at the old and new on ‘home’ one is able to identify that I had used very vibrant colours for my pages, which didn’t flow, and instead made the music pages look messy and complex. However, the improved music pages consist of vibrant, eye catching colours, that aren’t to harsh, but flow well with the layout of the pages, and images of the models.