From preliminary to final production

Since making my final production, my skills have dramatically improved. My school newsletter I created was a simple and basic design, with not much planning, details and not very targeted towards my audience, however over the last few months my skills have excelled to create a professional music magazine. I have improved in my photography skills, for example I used a phone camera for my photos for my newsletter but used a professional camera for my music magazine as the photos came out at a much high quality and looked a lot clearer. I have also improved my photo editing, for example cropping, erasing and light changes in software programmes such as macromedia fireworks and adobe Photoshop. Where as before I was using paint and publisher, which are basic graphic design programme where as fireworks allows you to create a very detailed production with many different tools available. When creating my magazine I learn new media language and touched on my journalism skills improving them with more intellectual words and more detailed media terms. When we made our music magazine we used blogs to keep track of our work, this was the first blogs I used and after working with it for a few weeks with it, I found it quite simple to use. Also using slide share help make my blog better, and I could feature my media planning for my magazine on slideshows to upload to the web then to my blog.