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

2. Progression

3. Progression
Throughout the process of the transformation from the
skills I had when producing my preliminary task to the
final product of my magazine I have developed my
understanding of the variety of tools available within
Adobe Photoshop CS3 and their uses.
I developed many skills throughout this process, for
instance, as you can see within my preliminary task I
only had knowledge of particularly basic skills, I wasn’t
aware of how to rotate text, which is useful to be a tool
included within my final product due to the impression
on canted, rebellious, distorted themes, reflected
within the rock culture itself.
Also, I wasn’t initially aware of the drop shadow tool,
therefore I created two text boxes which read ‘York
College’ and produced them in contrasting colours to
distinguish one from the other, having one in black
gave it the drop shadow effect, however I didn’t
employ this tool until the final product stage when I
was aware of the technique which deemed to be far
less time consuming and resulted in a more in depth
professional look.

4. Stages I went through when producing
my college magazine
Production
Image manipulation
Text manipulation
Layout design & manipulation

5. Stages I went through when producing
my music magazine
Research
Audience, for example my survey
http://samanthaking95.blogspot.com/#!/2011/11/target-audience-research-survey.html
Market, for example my double page spread analysis
http://samanthaking95.blogspot.com/#!/2011/11/this-double-page-spread-is-from-nme.html
http://samanthaking95.blogspot.com/#!/2011/11/this-double-page-spread-featuring-nicki.html
http://samanthaking95.blogspot.com/#!/2011/11/this-double-page-spread-has-been-taken.html
Planning
Pitch
http://samanthaking95.blogspot.com/#!/2011/12/my-flat-plans-style-sheet-and-pitch.html
Layouts/flatplans
http://samanthaking95.blogspot.com/#!/2011/12/my-flat-plans-style-sheet-and-pitch.html
Stylesheet
http://samanthaking95.blogspot.com/#!/2011/12/my-flat-plans-style-sheet-and-pitch.html
Planning photographs
http://samanthaking95.blogspot.com/#!/2011/12/sketches.html
Writing article copy
http://samanthaking95.blogspot.com/#!/2012/03/written-article.html
Production
Image manipulation
Text manipulation
Layout design & manipulation