Evaluation: Question 7

For the preliminary task, my knowledge of Photoshop was very limited, and I found using the magnetic lasso tool was very tedious. For the final products, I had more knowledge of how to use Photoshop and was also more comfortable using the tools on Photoshop. The way in which I managed my time for both tasks was very different. With the preliminary task, I was put into a group and had to work with the people that was included in the group, and only had a limited time to take the pictures as it was on a very tight schedule, as the pictures were taken during class time, also the setting that my picture for my preliminary task was a group decision and not my own individual choice. However with the final product, I had to decide how and when I wanted to take my pictures, and who I wanted to be in my music magazine, this was much better as I could then spend more time thinking about the props I wanted to use for my magazine and also the costumes, which would contribute to the way I represented my target audience. I had more control over what I did with my time, although I did not organise it very well, I spent too much time with my research and not enough time on my producing my media products and my evaluation. Although I organised my time for both the preliminary tasks and my final products badly. The effort I put into my research for my final products helped a lot more than the research I done for my preliminary tasks. This was because I had much more to go on for my final product and I also put my research into consideration when designing my media products for the final tasks. This was a big difference that affected the time that was used, as when I was doing the preliminary task, I was wasting far too much time on thinking of ideas for my media product then actually producing it. Whereas it was a different story for the final products as when I had no ideas I would just use my research to help me overcome that problem.