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

After the completion of my music magazine, I looked back on my preliminary task in which I was instructed to make a school magazine intended for students, teachers and parent/carers. We had to do this just to get to grips with the techniques of magazine constructions and the skills needed to make a magazine.

My preliminary task was aimed at a much wider, pre-determined audience whereas my final media product was aimed at a much smaller audience, an audience I chose after collecting and reviewing survey data. This effected the outcome of my magazine as with my preliminary task I could not direct my magazine at particular groups, this meant I had to use neutral fonts/colours as I could not risk alienating any of my audience. After finishing my music magazine I realised the importance of finding out your target market through surveys and audience profiles. Making my music magazine was considerably easy because of this.

Another thing I have learnt in the production of my music magazine was the skills to make a magazine look more professional, this includes programs such as adobe photoshop and Microsoft publisher.

Overall I feel like I have learnt many skills/techniques in the construction of magazines during the process of my constructing my media product. I feel like if we had to do two preliminary tasks my final magazine would have been even better as I feel like I could have learnt a lot more about constructing magazines if we had gotten even more practise.