Category: AS Magazine Task
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Q4: How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?
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I created a short video of my process of making the magazine, including the technology I used. I put together in CapCut some shots that I took during my making-of process. My journey began online on the blog, on a platform called WordPress. To make my blog I used other…
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Q3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
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This question made me think a lot about this project and everything I’ve done from start to finish. It really made me reflect on my work and how I managed everything. This is why I decided to make a ‘special article’ from the magazine, the answer to this question. I…
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Q2: How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
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To answer this question I started by looking back at the Budget and Calendar post, where I talked about how the magazine will be distributed and marketed. I made a plan of how I could approach this topic in Google Docs, and then started looking for a template in Canva.…
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Q1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
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For the first question of the creative reflection I decided to do a more dynamic presentation on Prezi. I discovered this website while searching for more unique presentation sites. I like how I can make the whole presentation ‘flow’ and guide the readers view with this theme. I firstly made…
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reviews and feedback
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I wanted to see how my target audience would react to my magazine and what they think about it, so I showed it to a few of my girl friends and collected some review from them. Sophia: Daria: Catrinel: Overall I think it went really well and they are all…
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the final presentation
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I still had to adjust a few things in order for everything to run smoothly, but overall I’m really happy with my final result. Once my magazine was ready it was time to upload it to Issuu, and I found the perfect flipbook format. I’ve included the link where you…
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making the front and back cover
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For the cover I knew I wanted to make it minimalistic as it’s something that my audience prefers. After I put everything together, but I noticed that something was not fitting right… The window frames from the greenhouse were overlapping with the text, which made it really hard to read.…
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making the article
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To make the article I had mostly prepared everything and just needed to put it all together. As I worked on the design,I also had to edit the photos furthermore to make them look good together. The most challenging part was the overall design, which I wanted to look aesthetic.…
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making the editorial
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First step in creating the editorial was actually writing it, as I haven’t done it in the planning stage since I thought it was more of the ‘making of’ part. These are my initial ideas where I started from (I didn’t include all of them they are just ideas that…
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making the table of contents
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For the table of content I started by writing down everything that will appear on these pages, meaning the name of the articles, the categories they fall under and the page numbers. Then I had to edit the text the way I wanted it to be and aligning it perfectly…