Skills Audit- Post Production

I used photoshop to manipulate my images and create a magazine, developing it un till i made it the best I could do.

Skills Audit- Digital Technology

I made a magazine on photoshop creating effects and manipulating images, over the process I have become better at using photoshop. I used the internet to research into magazines of a similar criterior to my one, helping me see what the audience of those magazines like to see, in turn helping me with my magazine.

Skills Audit- Real media conventions

I tried to find a usp for a magazine. I researched into diff magazines and tried to think of an idea that hadn't been done, yet would still sell. When looking into magazines I found that there was a lot of rap magazines that were American, I thought that this would be a good concept for London artists too.

Skills Audit- Research and planning

I created surveys for students between 16-18 to find a target audience for my music magazine, once I did that I researched into the kind of magazines that that audience preferred. I then thought of an idea and stuck to it. I researched into possible artists that i knew and would be able to get hold of, whilst thinking of what I would like to ask in a magazine to intrest readers. I planned out all of my magazine before i created it on photoshop, making it as similar as possible yet changing were relevant, particularly after audience feedback.

Skills Audit- Creative Development

My music magazine is the most creative piece of corsework that I created. I came up with an original concept based on my music taste as well as what I would want to buy myself, and what I believe would sell in London, particularly for young teenagers. I believe coming up with ideas and bringing the most out of them was my most creative strength.
When i thought of the idea that I wanted my magazine to be based on, i tried to develop that idea based on research from other magazines and talking to students in my class of the target audience for my mag.

School mag to music mag

 I believe that my school magazine images are strong in terms of the theme I wished to acheive and both of the pictures are consistant with that theme. However overall the colours are not consistant, and the photshop skills seen through this magazine look very unprofessional. The orange writing on my contents page is unclear in places, and the huge arrow on the front cover looks unprofessional and childish. Although I wasn't happy with the outcome of my school magazine, it did teach me some more skills with Adobe Photoshop and made me realise that research into the theme of my next magazine would be crucial.

The overall time I spent on my music magazine was much more than the time I spent on my school magazine, not only with creating a final product on Adobe Photoshop, but also on researching and taking a range of pictures that would give me alot to play with on Photoshop. The overall outcome of my music magazine in comparisson to my school one is that it looks much more consistant and professional.

Learning curve

At the beginning of this task, I was useless at Adobe Photoshop, and had never made a blog. Over the process, I have had lessons in Adobe Photoshop, helping with the progression of my skills in media. I am proud of the magazine I have made, as I didnt know how to make a magazine, let alone make it look professional. I have learnt how to create a magazine that is coherant, and have become confident enough to challenge many of the usual codes and conventions of a music magazine. I have tried to make my blog look less 'wordy' from how it looked to begin with, adding pictures and hyperlinks etc. I had trouble when attempting to upload a video that I had created in order to add to the different techniques, and was very dissapointed that I couldnt upload it after spending a while making it. Nevertheless I have tried my best to make my blog as appealing as possible, yet still with all the relevent information needed.