Since I did my preliminary task, I have advanced and learnt a lot about the technology used in creating and putting together a magazine.
When I first started putting my college magazine together, I had very limited knowledge of what tools to use on Photoshop; since then I have learnt a lot more of what tools to use in my most recent magazine. I have managed to download fonts from the internet, use brush tools on my images and use various shapes to my magazine to make it look professional and appealing to my target audience.
Following on from this, I have learnt a lot more about conventions and how to link my magazine more to my target audience. When I did my preliminary task I had never heard of conventions or what they were, since then I have been able to include this in my recent magazine, including sticking, breaking and adapting them. Some of this could be risky as some people look for certain things in a magazine and don't like to have change; whereas in particular target audiences, it may appeal to them more. The decisions I made in developing and adapting my conventions were to purposely make my magazine more appealing and attract my target audience more, if it was something I found that they liked in my target audience research.
Linking to this, I looked a lot more into what my target audience likes and who my target audience are. With various different types of genres, there are going to be a range of target audiences, so looking more deeply into this was an important factor in creating my music magazine. Whereas for my preliminary task there is only going to be one target audience for a 'college magazine' which will be college students. So I only had to look into what college students would be interested in reading out in that particular magazine. Looking into target audience research helped me a great deal, as I used my findings as guidelines in creating my magazine, as well as making my own decisions to what I think would benefit my own magazine.
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