Skills log
Preliminary task
I think my photo shop skills have improved a lot but there is still room for improvement i think that my analysis skills have also improved because i feel as if it is becoming easier for me to do and i am also seeing things in different ways, i thought my magazine was alright but lacked originality and appeal i thought that my contents page wasreally good and i was pleased with it and i thought that my textual analysis wasn't t that good mostly because i was not sure what to write about.
Targets:
1. Improve photoshop skills
2. Revise more
3. Be more creative
Targets:
1. Improve photoshop skills
2. Revise more
3. Be more creative
Real media texts
After doing the music RMT I think that I gained the knowledge that I need to make an industry standard grime magazine as I now have a better understanding of what conventions to use and how to use them to enhance the quality of my work
audience
After doing the audience task I feel that I learned the importance of audience profiling I made it easier because it help me visualise my target audience and what they would want, my mood board making skills have also clearly improved as my most recent looks much better than my previous mood board I think this is because I have learned to fade things in together better on photo shop, my work on publishing houses also improved my knowledge as before I did not even know what a publishing was or what they did now but i know a lot about them and the business but I think my surveying skill are what improved most as I had to survey twenty urban teenagers which was not easy at all as they seemed to be quite rude, irritable and impatient so I realised that I had to keep my survey short and as fun as possible
drafting
DraftingAfter the drafting stage i feel that my photoshop skills have improved a lot as i now know how to use a lot more of the features and i can also use them in a more efficient way and i also think that my understanding of a magazine has also improved a lot as well because i can now see alot of similarities however i feel that my photo shop skills can still be improved so i will practice with that and i will look at more magazines to further improve my understanding of my magazines
Final Products
Having completed my assignment I feel as if my Photoshop skills have drastically improved as I know how to use a range of tools that I didn't know how to before and I'm using the ones that could use before more effectively, I feel as if I have become a better photographer as I have come to understand the importance of things that I previously didn't think mattered e.g. distance from background, I think that I also understand the importance of style and originality and how effective it can be and I also think that my understanding of the magazine industry works has also drastically improved as I now know a lot more about the conventions that a magazine will need to be classed as an industry standard and how to use them effectively