Evaulation Question 7

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

Looking back at my preliminary task I feel the main thing I have learnt is how to produce and create a professional looking media product, this was achieved by the following:

•Audience Research

•Researching Magazines

•Learning How To Use A New Software

I have learnt that it is essential to carry out audience research in order to gain a wide insight to what my target audience would want and like to see. By creating a questionnaire it helped me to make choices on such things as colours and what should consist within my magazine. I was able to understand the conventions of an Hip Hop and R&B magazine by looking at popular music magazines such as :

I also learnt that it is very important to have a target audience and that you should really base your magazine ideas on this target audience. It is important to gain information on this group. I have also learnt that allot about different social groups that magazines aim at. Many magazines included specific topics within their magazine in order to attract more than one type of social group.

At the start of my project I carried out a task in which I had to create a college magazine, from this I learnt how to produce a magazine using photoshop and I learnt about audience research. After this I got feedback from from my fellow students and friends so I can do better in my real media product. From this I learnt the importance of audience feedback. This all helped me to make my media product look professional.

I have learnt that specific colours create a dramatic change in the effect that the magazine gives to my target audience. I have learnt very significant techniques and skills on the 'Photoshop' software in order for me to create a professional media product. I also learnt about different files that must be used in photoshop such as ' JPEG' this is the file in which I had to use when transferring my media product from photoshop to blogger.

During my research I looked at various music genres, it allowed me to gather resources for my product. I choose to base my media product on the Hiphop and R&B genre as I am already familiar with this genre. I knew that if I used this genre then I will have a better insight on the whole product and also I would receive more accurate results from my audience in my audience research.

I also learnt about styles and colloquial language used in Hip Hop and R&B magazines, I learnt that Hip Hop and R&B artists are stereotyped, they are said to always wear tracksuits,big gold chains and hoodies. But I learnt this isn't always true, so this is why I represented my models in a very modern unique style and not a typical stereotype look. I learnt that Hip Hop and R&B is more than just music it represents peoples struggles of living on the streets and trying to get through everyday life on dangerous neighbourhoods and many more difficulty's.

During this whole task not only did I learn new skills but I have also learnt how to be more organised within myself as I organised my time carefully.