Reflection of AS coursework

  How it went: Over the course of the first year my skills have significantly developed. I have become used to using photoshop therefore was able to develop a page is a short space of time. I have also learned how to use an Apple Mac therefore i was able to access photoshop in college. The Mac's have made it easier to complete my work as they are faster therefore i do not have to wait for the computer to load. However during the last month of the the memory stick i was using corrupted and i therefore lost a large chunk of my work and had to re create all of the pages for my magazine from scratch. This set me back quite a lot therefore my work did not come out at standard i would of liked it to be.

Strengths: As I was the model for my magazine I was able to retake any photographs without any hassle, whereas if I had used a different model I would have had to work around their schedule. Another strength of the magazine is the images used alongside the main image on the contents page. I have used images which I have taken myself at concerts and events therefore these images are my own and I have not broken any copyright rules.

Weakness: As i lost a lot of my work, a weakness of mine was not backing up my work from my memory stick onto another device such as a hard drive or computer. In result of not backing up my work I lost a chunk of data which included all images I was planning on using and completed pages of the magazine. From this weakness I am going to progress by always backing up all work as soon as it is completed to avoid this issue happening again in the future.