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

I feel like I have learnt a great deal from the beginning of my Preliminary Task, to the completion of my media text.

I have learnt more about the conventions and ways of producing a magazine. How to do it through the use of computer software, what to put onto my magazine and where, what my audience will be looking for in the magazine, and how it represents their particular social group.
I feel as if now I understand much more about how media texts are constructed, and what thought has to go into the distribution of them.
I thoroughly researched and looked into conventions of a standard music magazine and applied them to my text. Main influences being Q and NME.
This can be seen as with my Poole High Magazine, was based off nothing, and was put together with no structure in mind. The cover needed a medium long shot photo in it, however I didn't manage to get a hold of one, but this was going to be addressed if I had a longer period to finish it in.
Overall I now have more sufficient knowledge of constructing media texts. There are many things that need to be put into consideration when doing so:
- Your audience
- It's conventions
- It's distribution i.e. through institutions
- It's representation of your audience
- Devices used to attract your audience