7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to the full product?
I found that I have definitely progressed a lot from my preliminary task. I have developed my research skills and analysis. I have learnt how to use InDesign correctly by learning each of the task symbols and how too measure and design a front cover, contents page and double-page spread of a magazine. I also learnt how to use slideshare to upload my powerpoints so that I could include them on my blog. I made my blog on blogger.com and learnt the process of uploading all of my work to make my blog, once I got the hang of it I found it very easy to use the blog. I made my preliminary task on publisher but progressed to make my final product on InDesign as it gave a more professional standard. I learnt how to use my audience research correctly to produce a product for them. After analysising many magazine pages I understand conventions and meanings a lot more to magazines now. I can apprieciate audience feedback and criticism. I have learnt what kind of images work for a magazine and how to set up successful photoshoots. I have learnt what an audience really want to read in a magazine and a good proportion of image to text.
Friday 1 April 2011
Evaluation - Question 6
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of designing this product?
Throughout the designing of this product, I have used many different software to ensure I got the best quality product I could.
Digital Camera - I used my digital SONY camera to do my photo shoot for my magazine,which I also use for photography. I know that it will give high quality images. I also know how to use this camera very well so I knew it would be appropriate for my shoots.
Internet - I used the internet for the following; Research images, findyourtribe and Dafont.
- My research was mainly from google which lead me to information and on websites to help me find out about magazine institutions, and I also used google images to find all of my magazine cover, contents pages and double-page spreads to analyse for my magazine research.
- I used www.findyourtribe.com to find out my social group and the variation of social groups as part of my research for my audience of the magazine. This was a different/new software to use but I found it very easy and fast to use.
- I used Dafont website to create my mastheads and headings. I felt this was a good website and had so many different fonts to chose from and had so many different meanings and genres to them.
InDesign - I used indesign to make my front cover, contents page and double-page spread. This was such a different programme to Publisher which I had used for my preliminary task. At first I found it very hard to use but as I knew how to use photoshop, it slowly became easier to use and I finally got the hang of it. I am pleased with the results of my magazine from Indesign and photoshop and can see how much of an improvement it made from using publisher.
Photoshop - I used photoshop to edit and cut out/crop my images. I edited them by altering the brightness /contrast and removing any unnecessary parts of the image. I made sure the image was clear and of a high quality by sharpening my image. I found photoshop fine to use for this project.
Paint - I used paint to do print screens and cropping of my fonts from www.dafont.com to create them for my magazine.
Word - I used word to type up notes and documents leading up to and for research and any planning for my magazine. I also produced my origonal audience questionnaire on Word.
Powerpoint - I used powerpoint to produce all of my powerpoints, which were research and planning for my magazine and my audience research. Powerpoints were a very clear and easy way to produce lots of planning onto and to also produce our flat plans.
Publisher - I used publisher to produce my preliminary task because I did not know how to use Indesign at the beginning of my project. I'm a lot happier with my results from Indesign though.
Slideshare - I used slideshare to upload and embed my powerpoints to upload to my blog. I found slideshare seem to take a long time to upload my powerpoints but it was a good way of uploading them onto my blog.
Blogger - I used www.blogger.com to upload and share all of my project. After getting used to blogger I found it a very easy and simpe way to share all of my work onto my blog, and I liked how you could adapt and make it look how you wanted.
Throughout the designing of this product, I have used many different software to ensure I got the best quality product I could.
Digital Camera - I used my digital SONY camera to do my photo shoot for my magazine,which I also use for photography. I know that it will give high quality images. I also know how to use this camera very well so I knew it would be appropriate for my shoots.
Internet - I used the internet for the following; Research images, findyourtribe and Dafont.
- My research was mainly from google which lead me to information and on websites to help me find out about magazine institutions, and I also used google images to find all of my magazine cover, contents pages and double-page spreads to analyse for my magazine research.
- I used www.findyourtribe.com to find out my social group and the variation of social groups as part of my research for my audience of the magazine. This was a different/new software to use but I found it very easy and fast to use.
InDesign - I used indesign to make my front cover, contents page and double-page spread. This was such a different programme to Publisher which I had used for my preliminary task. At first I found it very hard to use but as I knew how to use photoshop, it slowly became easier to use and I finally got the hang of it. I am pleased with the results of my magazine from Indesign and photoshop and can see how much of an improvement it made from using publisher.
Photoshop - I used photoshop to edit and cut out/crop my images. I edited them by altering the brightness /contrast and removing any unnecessary parts of the image. I made sure the image was clear and of a high quality by sharpening my image. I found photoshop fine to use for this project.
Paint - I used paint to do print screens and cropping of my fonts from www.dafont.com to create them for my magazine.
Word - I used word to type up notes and documents leading up to and for research and any planning for my magazine. I also produced my origonal audience questionnaire on Word.
Powerpoint - I used powerpoint to produce all of my powerpoints, which were research and planning for my magazine and my audience research. Powerpoints were a very clear and easy way to produce lots of planning onto and to also produce our flat plans.
Publisher - I used publisher to produce my preliminary task because I did not know how to use Indesign at the beginning of my project. I'm a lot happier with my results from Indesign though.
Slideshare - I used slideshare to upload and embed my powerpoints to upload to my blog. I found slideshare seem to take a long time to upload my powerpoints but it was a good way of uploading them onto my blog.
Blogger - I used www.blogger.com to upload and share all of my project. After getting used to blogger I found it a very easy and simpe way to share all of my work onto my blog, and I liked how you could adapt and make it look how you wanted.
Evaluation - Question 5
5. How did you attract and address your audience?
After researching what my audience want from a music magazine, I tried to include as much I could. I made my magazine conventional by using a bold masthead and a sophisticated house style throughout. I enticed them by using a pull on the front of an interview with a brand new band on the front. They were my main image. I said that there is information on the Brit awards and a free CD. I also included on the front cover '100 songs you must download' this is a pull for the readers because they will want to know the latest songs to download. On my contents page I used a model called Zara who was featuring in my magazine as a model for music posters and CD's, the audience will be interested in this also. I tried to make my layout of my magazine to look realistic and professional but I know that it doesn't look too much like a real magazine. I tried to make the double-page spread interesting and attractive so that the audience would want to read it and be interested. I am probably going to have a 70:30 ratio of female:male audience because I think because I am female I naturally produced a more feminine magazine.
After researching what my audience want from a music magazine, I tried to include as much I could. I made my magazine conventional by using a bold masthead and a sophisticated house style throughout. I enticed them by using a pull on the front of an interview with a brand new band on the front. They were my main image. I said that there is information on the Brit awards and a free CD. I also included on the front cover '100 songs you must download' this is a pull for the readers because they will want to know the latest songs to download. On my contents page I used a model called Zara who was featuring in my magazine as a model for music posters and CD's, the audience will be interested in this also. I tried to make my layout of my magazine to look realistic and professional but I know that it doesn't look too much like a real magazine. I tried to make the double-page spread interesting and attractive so that the audience would want to read it and be interested. I am probably going to have a 70:30 ratio of female:male audience because I think because I am female I naturally produced a more feminine magazine.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)