When I started my AS project I had some skills in relation to Photoshop, knowing just the basics of the program. Throughout my course I learnt how to do more creative things within the program as well as taking a more elaborate approach to what was capable of doing. For my AS course I created both a college magazine and a music magazine, I feel the college magazine helped a lot in advancing my skills in terms of Photoshop, ensuring that I was capable to do better work for my music magazine and make it look professional and creative. I feel that the skills that I learnt throughout my AS course will help me a lot with my A2 course, due to more knowledge with technology aspects that would be required to use.
For my AS course I also used Blogger, which is something I had never used before, I was quickly able to do the basic things required such as to upload my work to my Blogger, but during the course I felt I became more comfortable with it and was able to learn more about what Blogger had to offer, such as how to upload pictures etc. But for my A2 project I have begun to explore the other aspects of Blogger, such as to create a poll that would be displayed on my Blogger page, which has helped me to broaden the ways in which I can do my work and do required research, such as audience feedback. When doing my AS college magazine, I posted many post of my work, but I feel that when I came to do my music magazine it helped me with ensuring I post a lot of updates in relation to my work, and the progress I was making on my music magazine, doing a post every time I added or changed something on my magazine, this will help with my A2 course as I will make sure to upload many posts in relation to my progress and ideas.
When planning for my projects in my AS course, which is something I didn’t have a lot of experience with, I felt that the college magazine project helped me understand what would be required for my music magazine, which I did a lot more planning for, I feel that this will help with my A2 course as I understand the quantity that would be needed as well as what would be required within my research. The use of the internet throughout the course was very helpful in terms of research and planning; it meant that I could research magazines easily and find many different types of college or music magazines. It was very useful in terms of ideas and ensuring to use some of the conventional aspects that are used within professional magazines. I learnt to do a lot more research for my music magazine by doing the college magazine as it ensures I know a lot more about the product I would be creating myself, which would create a better overall outcome for the product as it would feature conventional aspects of those types of magazines.
During the course of AS, doing the college magazine and the music magazine helped with my camera techniques, in terms of getting the right angle, the shot requires in the brief for the college magazine being a medium shot, which I felt I achieved. For the music magazine I believe that I achieved better pictures due to the practice from the college magazine, knowing more on camera angles and shots and how to achieve them effectively. This will help me a lot with my A2 course as it will ensure that throughout my project I will be considering and applying my knowledge to ensure I get the correct camera shots and angles, and ensure that my framing is correct.
My AS course I believe will help me greatly with my A2 course in terms of all the experience and knowledge I acquired during AS, and will ensure that I know more about what is required and make sure that I get as much research and planning done, as well as uploading progress and ideas frequently to keep my Blogger well up to date.
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