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Conclusively, I think I have made large improvements within my practical knowledge of images, editing, language and layout. I think it is fully evident that there is a large difference between my preliminary task and my final product and I am surprised, proud and very pleased with my progress, both throughout the practical production and this course.

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In terms of the layout, I was almost clueless as to how to layout my preliminary task. This caused me to produce a considerably dull contents page, with various blank areas, leaving the product looking insufficient and unprofessional. However, once I had completed ym similar products research, I was inspired and given various creative ideas, as well as conventions to include, so that my final product maintained professional and exciting layouts that has a consistent element of realism.

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Within my preliminary task, I catered for the audience (college students, male/female, 16-19) through the language I used, creating an element of youth and almost immaturity. I also feel this made it feel unprofessional, which opposes the professionalism and high quality of the language in my final product. The language in the final product also didn't address the reader as informally, because the personal element thatch be found in a college, is not gone. Some of the softwares/websites I use to alter and improve the appearance of my language was WordArt, DaFont and Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.

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In terms of where I stood with photoshop and editing, I was fairly familiar with Photoshop due to doing GCSE Media. However, when I began AS Level Media Studies, I was in the midst of refreshing my knowledge/awareness surrounding photoshop and felt as though this affected the quality of my preliminary task and limited the product to a more simple layout. Once I was aware of my chosen colour scheme and the quality of the images taken at the studio, I wanted to ensure my images were perfect, and to do so, I went through the process of creating contact sheets and choosing images, and then going over that idea and editing as many images as possible so that I could ensure that the images that I decided to use were perfect. I also uploaded a video of my editing one of the images to demonstrate my knowledge. I feel like I progressed largely from my preliminary task in relation to editing.

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Due to most of the images being taken on an iPhone camera (a camera certainly not designed to take professional photographs), the preliminary task's image quality was utterly poor in comparison to my final product. I also did not edit the preliminary task picture in any way, juxtaposing the final product with it's consistently edited images to fit with the colour scheme. This relates to how my photoshop skills have grown and developed to a level that I can edit my images so I am certain that my colour scheme will be consistent. It is also evident that within many of the preliminary task images, the artifical (unreliable) lighting causes a dark and shadowed effect, whereas in my final product, I have had the opportunity to use professional lighting with professional cameras in a high technology studio, in order to ensure that my images are of the highest standard and the best quality.

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Whilst comparing my preliminary task contents and final product contents, I noticed all of the blank spaces that were left in my preliminary task, as well as the immature look it had. The gender specific colour scheme continued and the image quality wasn't the best due to most of the picture being taken on an iPhone. The contents don't have numbers to direct you to pages and the overall quality of the product was poor.

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In comparison, my preliminary task is in no way near the quality of my final product. The actual quality of the product itself was poor, but with improved photoshop skill, that has changed. Although my preliminary task was a college magazine based around the on-campus fashions, whereas my final product was a highly professional and realistic music magazine. The quality of the images certainly did not reach the standard that my final product images reach, and the layout itself slightly dull, with areas that appear sparse, and a colour theme that is highly focused on one sole gender group.

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