Friday, 6 May 2016
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task,what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final product?
I feel like that, following my initial preliminary task, I have developed greatly in terms of my understanding of conventions and skills at creating a magazine. Firstly, I believe that when comparing my preliminary task cover and my final magazine cover, it is clear that I have progressed greatly. I made better use of the main image, which was not the best option for my preliminary task, because of a unsuitable background, needing to be removed. On the other hand, my final magazine cover has a suitable image for my magazine genre, with a close up accompanied by a brick wall background. Whilst it was a unsuitable background for my preliminary cover, it worked well for my final magazine cover. By recognising the correct uses of that particular background depending on the genre, I was able to develop a solid foundation for the cover. Another aspect of the page I felt that I have progressed from is my use of spaces and filling the spaces with text and images. On my preliminary cover, I left plenty of blank spaces all over the page, space that could have easily been filled. So when I begun to develop my final cover, I incorporated several conventions that I had learnt, such as anchorage text, secondary images and a slogan, all of which, plus many more, fills the blank spaces which make a cover look bland if not added.
Furthermore, I believe that I have progressed in my contents page from the preliminary task to my final contents. Firstly, I made sure to focus on creating a easier guide to what is actually inside the magazine, as in the preliminary task, my contents themselves are very limited and don't describe the limited number of articles well. Additionally, There is also a issue of blank spaces all over the preliminary task, with the huge gaps wasting the space that could be used for text and images. So when I was developing my final magazine, I made sure to include images for several of the featured musicians, as well as making sure that there was a lot more text there to fill a entire magazine rather than just as few articles.
Overall, I feel that my magazine has shown great progression from my preliminary task, and as I have learnt the conventions and techniques of creating a magazine, I feel far more confident in creating one than I did previously.
I feel like that, following my initial preliminary task, I have developed greatly in terms of my understanding of conventions and skills at creating a magazine. Firstly, I believe that when comparing my preliminary task cover and my final magazine cover, it is clear that I have progressed greatly. I made better use of the main image, which was not the best option for my preliminary task, because of a unsuitable background, needing to be removed. On the other hand, my final magazine cover has a suitable image for my magazine genre, with a close up accompanied by a brick wall background. Whilst it was a unsuitable background for my preliminary cover, it worked well for my final magazine cover. By recognising the correct uses of that particular background depending on the genre, I was able to develop a solid foundation for the cover. Another aspect of the page I felt that I have progressed from is my use of spaces and filling the spaces with text and images. On my preliminary cover, I left plenty of blank spaces all over the page, space that could have easily been filled. So when I begun to develop my final cover, I incorporated several conventions that I had learnt, such as anchorage text, secondary images and a slogan, all of which, plus many more, fills the blank spaces which make a cover look bland if not added.
Furthermore, I believe that I have progressed in my contents page from the preliminary task to my final contents. Firstly, I made sure to focus on creating a easier guide to what is actually inside the magazine, as in the preliminary task, my contents themselves are very limited and don't describe the limited number of articles well. Additionally, There is also a issue of blank spaces all over the preliminary task, with the huge gaps wasting the space that could be used for text and images. So when I was developing my final magazine, I made sure to include images for several of the featured musicians, as well as making sure that there was a lot more text there to fill a entire magazine rather than just as few articles.
Overall, I feel that my magazine has shown great progression from my preliminary task, and as I have learnt the conventions and techniques of creating a magazine, I feel far more confident in creating one than I did previously.
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Through this process, I have learnt how to adapt and use different software which would work well in the construction of my magazine. The most prominent example of this is Adobe Photoshop. I had already had experience with this software though only to a certain extent, i was nowhere near as efficient and comfortable with the software as i am now.This software was extremely useful when editing both my preliminary and main magazines. I used tools on the editor such as a rubber for the backgrounds in my preliminary task, text boxes to create and vary the text for the page,guidelines in order to keep the columns in line. These all helped massively when trying to create my magazine, and i progressed greatly in my skills from my preliminary to my final piece.
Furthermore, i have been using Apple Macs for my primary work at photoshop and indesign. I have never owned a Apple Mac, or any computer with Mac OS, so adapting to the different controls, functions and layout was a gradual process. Despite being used to Windows OS, i adapted to the Apple mac well as i can easily perform actions around files, internet browsing, screenshots and much more.
Another piece of software i have been using is the website blogger. Blogger has allowed me to showcase my magazine's development and my progress on other software. The website was complicated at first as there were initial difficulties around creating blogs and generally finding a way around the website, though over the course of the year i have become used to the layout and learnt how to label my work for easier reference.
I have also used the website, Slideshare in order to present my presentation for one of the questions on the internet, as blogger does not support this properly. It was originally very simple as it required just a sign up process before i could publish my powerpoint.
Through this process, I have learnt how to adapt and use different software which would work well in the construction of my magazine. The most prominent example of this is Adobe Photoshop. I had already had experience with this software though only to a certain extent, i was nowhere near as efficient and comfortable with the software as i am now.This software was extremely useful when editing both my preliminary and main magazines. I used tools on the editor such as a rubber for the backgrounds in my preliminary task, text boxes to create and vary the text for the page,guidelines in order to keep the columns in line. These all helped massively when trying to create my magazine, and i progressed greatly in my skills from my preliminary to my final piece.
Furthermore, i have been using Apple Macs for my primary work at photoshop and indesign. I have never owned a Apple Mac, or any computer with Mac OS, so adapting to the different controls, functions and layout was a gradual process. Despite being used to Windows OS, i adapted to the Apple mac well as i can easily perform actions around files, internet browsing, screenshots and much more.
Another piece of software i have been using is the website blogger. Blogger has allowed me to showcase my magazine's development and my progress on other software. The website was complicated at first as there were initial difficulties around creating blogs and generally finding a way around the website, though over the course of the year i have become used to the layout and learnt how to label my work for easier reference.
I have also used the website, Slideshare in order to present my presentation for one of the questions on the internet, as blogger does not support this properly. It was originally very simple as it required just a sign up process before i could publish my powerpoint.
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