Evaluating Year 12

When I started year 12 media studies at A-level we was introduced to the two year course and what was expected of us. It then came to understanding the first brief given for our coursework. We was told the unit was based on music magazine and we had to complete a preliminary task along with the final product. We began creating a blog using Blogger to track through our developement. When given the breif in detail I understood what was expected as we also looked at last years work. From then onwards all of the lessons were relevent whether it was about codes and conventions, planning, researching or working on the Mac's creating our magazines. I feel we have the exact amount of both theory, independent and pratical lessons and we all was able to meet the deadlines with various drafts from critism and was able to correct these. If I had done something differently I maybe would of spent more time on writing my article. What I found difficult was coming up with a magazine completely unique and thinking of the ideas before putting it altogether. I enjoyed most working on Pages on the Mac's and Photoshopping all of my images. I was really pleased with my over all grade as I spent alot of time and effort, researching and planning in order to create it sucessfuly. I really enjoyed doing music magazine and wouldn't of wanted to do any other unit as I feel alot of people like music both male and female where as other magazines just cater for one gender. I spent some time at home researching and planning at home and taking the photos for my magazine however was unable to make my magazine as I didn't have the software.