Question # 3 How did your

production skills develop

throughout this project?

The first step I took was research and planning. Before starting my preliminary task I did a detailed research on other magazines lying under my genre to understand the codes and conventions which links from real media texts it was a great decision to make of what type of genre would I like to work on but it was very important for me to have an inspiration first.

For this, technology was an important factor for the consumption and production of my media text as it enhanced my creativity. We were supposed to present our work on our blogs and it was a bit difficult since Iwas not use to blogging. We had a photography class in which we learned different techniques of using the camera and lighting, Internet was one of the major resource that I took help of for surfing, finding out other magazines cover and studying them it made my work much easier and helped develop my skills by also learning adobe Photoshop The image manipulation program allowed me to manipulate graphics necessary for the magazine. E.g. crop tools such as Marquee (magic wand), Lassos, and colour converters such as Red Eye Corrector, ColourVariations, Colour Dropper, Dodge etc.

However, technology is of a great help but there are some con’s of it. There were many difficulties that I faced as sometimes our internet stopped working which delayed our work. Learning Photoshop needs great skills but I gave it my best effort. We started saving our work in USBS and it became very easy to edit them in PowerPoint or slide share to make it look more creative.

I learned to organize my time better and plan a task properly by looking at a common conventions of other magazines before I started working on my final which made my work much easier as I learnt many new

things which were not covered in the preliminary product. For e.g. I used very less colours in the school magazine to be safe whereas in my fashion magazine. I was able to be a lot more creative and pacifically target my audience. While the process we reviewed real text examples, conventions and analysis of the old student work and discussed the marking criteria with the teacher. We also researched into audience expectations ( cost and accessibility) and made a prop mood board and time-line on which we were supposed to update the work.

Preliminary

magazine

Final

magazine

At the post production stage which included editing of my

pictures of the magazine in Photoshop. My understanding of

applying the real conventions has improved over the course, I

added all the conventions of a street-fashion magazine genre

on it to complete my final product.