When i first started my AS production in year 12,
One of the first things that i had to do was my pre production. This meant that I had to analise past magazine covers, contents pages and double page spreads, this enabled me to study the colours fonts and type of pictures that magazines use to create the proffesional effect that i was going for. I did analyise my covers well but there was not real quantity to the analysis, I only analysised two covers really well and the other one was not really analysed well enough. what i think i did well in my pre production is that i looked well at what other magazines on my genre were set out, I think I analysied this quite well and therefore it enabled me to me make my magazine looks more realistic. Another weakness in my blog from AS is my pre-production i did not know enough about the target audience who i was trying to appeal to, after doing more research i feel that I have a better understanding about how to go about looking and people who my product will appeal to.
I had no idea at first on how to use photo shop, I am now able to make clear changes to my magazine to make it look better using more advanced tools on photoshop. I did not understand much about lighting and how to take pictures properly, now i am able to make the lighting right for my pictures and this enables me to make a much better overall product. A problem that i faced in AS is time keeping as I left a few things to the last minute when I should not have as that could compramise the end product and it could make it look rushed, however I feel that now I have a better idea on how to make my time alot more useful and get more tasks done in the times allocated to them.
Some thing that I feel went well about my AS production, is the way i used skills about how to lay out my magazine to make it look like a real magazine. It was done quite well and i feel i used a good deal of space in my product there fore there was no real empty spaces in my work, in A2 i hope to develop all these skills further.
