What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

When producing my magazine I used a variety of different technologies. These are all explined below...

I used a camera to take my pictures. Before taking my pictures I had to plan what kind of photo I was thinking of taking, for example would I be using a close up? Would I be keeping the background or editing it out? I tried to make my pictures reflect the artists identity, this was evident on my double page spread where I used the outdoors to review my artists love for nature.

Paint Shop Pro is a programme that is used to edit images. I used it to remove the background of my front cover image, I also used it to feather an image.

 Adobe InDesign is a software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books. This alowed me to design and function a layout for my magazine.

As apart of the construction of my final product I used the internet to undergo research of exsisting magazines, this helped me acquire an understanding of the codes and conventions of music magazines.

Adobe bridge allowed me to bridge the photos from the camera to Adobe Indesign

Looking back to your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?

          

The preliminary task of the production was to create a school magazine front cover. This allowed me to get to grips with the technology I was going to be using for my final production.

• You can see a clear improvement in the layout and design when comparing my final production with my preliminary task.
• I'm not completely happy with my front cover as I think it was my weakest point in the production of all three pages. The main problem I had was fitting everything in without it looking cluttered but then not looking to boring.
• I've learnt that the main image plays a huge role in where everything else is placed.
• For the preliminary task you can see the pictures look out of place, it just looks to plain. This was a hige advantage to me as i could leanr not so much from my mistakes because i dont feel that i made mistakes more lack of understanding when it came to using the technology, and used this to plan my final product.
• I am happy with my overall production as i feel that by following the codes and convections of magazines mine looks like it could be seen on a shelf with a few adaptions.

                                   

First Attempt of my Contents Page

Idea's For My Contents Page...

The reason I choose this contetns page was because

I liked the idea of it being a double page rather

than just one page.

I also like this one because

the colour scheme is the same as mine.

Final Double page spread!

Second Attempt Of Double Page Spread...

First Attempt Of My Double Page Spread...