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

When I look back at my preliminary task, I feel that I have learnt a few things which I never thought I could. For example: my school magazine wasn't carefully planned and thought through like what my music magazine was, which I feel made a tremendous impact on "String Set" because I knew what I wanted to achieve and include - which was not what I did on my school magazine, as I just wrote down whatever came in to my head on that day.

In terms of photography, I have learnt that it is best to plan the angles you like and also want to work on, as the angles, lighting and composure of a picture will help when setting a layout of a page, especially the front cover; as you have to match colours to the front page, put text in a specific place which also means it doesn't look too over empowering etc.

I have learnt that the aspect of time is very important. You need to set yourself a time limit of how long you want to spend on creating each page - and then, if you are still not happy with your product when you have told yourself to move on, then you need to spend extra time working on it outside of your lesson.

The type of font is also important: for instance, If I wanted to create a particular mood or look then I would have to look for a particular font, as some fonts can suggest a mood or define a certain look. For my magazine, I wanted to create something quirky but simple - and I did this by using the fonts that I did.

I have also learnt how to address a particular audience when directing your media product towards them. For instance, I used particular words which would be similar to what they would use in an everyday conversation: which would mean that it is easy for them to understand but at the same time meaning that they feel the urge to read on.