Component 1 was a fun and intriguing course, we researched, designed and then produced our very own magazine, it all started by researching and identifying what’s iconographic of a music magazine, we then decided on the genre we wanted to analyse and then mask. When coming to choosing my genre, I thought very carefully and came to the decision that I wanted to study the hip-hop genre, this enabled me to label my magazine ‘Burst’ and create 3 pages: a front cover, contents page and double page spread, after endless amounts of editing, correcting and finalising I have finally completed my magazine and have uploaded it to Issuu.com to get an insight as to how it would look.

The latest skills I have gained from doing this course is how to use websites such as: Emaze, Lucid charts and premier pro, I had to mainly use these websites when doing my CCR’s. Many more skills have been obtained from InDesign, for example I now have the ability to create a gold gradient for other purposes. Moreover, I now know how to wrap text around images and other text, this helped massively when placing my pulling quote in the middle of my DPS article.

The transferable skills I have gained whilst doing this course are: how to be much more organised, I gained this skill while organising my photoshoots, both the front cover photoshoot and the town photoshoot, whether this was messaging the models and telling them what to wear, or pre planning a date to use either the white room studio. I also had to do a lot of researching and planning, an example of this would be my production meeting agenda, where I had to pre-plan my costumes and decide what I believe would best stereotype a hip-hop star(s). Other ways research and planning has significantly helped me would be researching the demographic and psychographic for a particular genre of music; I was given ‘classic rock’.

This course has opened many new skills that will greatly benefit me in the future, whether it is the researching side of things or the producing itself. I am more than happy with my magazine and can safely say I’ve done my best.