Evaluation Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Shown below is a video entry I have created in order to answer this last question.

One thing not mentioned in the video was the manipulation of model skills. Within my preliminary task, my models had never posed professionally before which meant that they were not very comfortable infront of the camera. This meant that during the shoot, I had to control a lot of what was going on and it took a while for them to take photos confidently. In contrast, on my music magazine, my main model Alice is someone that I knew had taken photos professionally before. This was very benefical for my work as it meant that she could capture the expressions that I wanted confidently and quickly. This is also contrasting to the models I used on my contents page as Rob and Nakita had never been photographed before professionally. It took them a while to get comfortable and I felt as though they were limited in the expressions they used in comparsion to Alice who used a range of different looks.

Aswell as this, the use of setting within my work was also an essential thing that I improved upon. Within my preliminary task, I shot all the photos at my house and this meant that I did not put variety into my magazine. In the music magazine, I showed extreme improvement as i took my models to different settings. My most successful setting, in my opinion was taking Alice to the fields as I came out with very strong photographs and I did not have to take a second photoshoot for the double page spread. My setting for the photographs of Robs was Not so succesful . I believe it was too dark and the setting seemed dull. If I had more time, I would take a second set of photographs and taken them more in daylight. Unfortuantly, I ran out of time.