Q4: Integration of Technologies
How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project? Type your paragraph here << Q3: Skills Development
Q3: Skills Development
How did your production skills develop throughout this project? This project really helped me improve my photographing skills, designing, and becoming an organiser and planning everything ahead. It made me realise how much better it is to handle a bigger project when you have every step written down and organised before, it makes things much …
Q2: Audiences & Distribution
How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? For this question, I bring back my Budget and Calendar post, where I also explained how I would distribute the magazine, where, and how many copies. The marketing part I haven’t talked about that much but I …
Q1: Conventions & Representations
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? In order to answer this question in a creative way, as this is a creative reflection after all, I decided to do a presentation. However I didn’t want it to just be slides, instead I imagined something more …
Final Results
Based on the feedback I’ve recieved earlier I did a few modifications and this is the end result. The most difficult part was uploading this magazine in flipbook format. Making the flipbook was easy, I installed the DearFlip widged and uploaded the file. But then every time I tried to embed it, whether through HTML …
Feedback
Once the magazine was done, I asked my friends and family members for feedback on the content and design. If you would see this cover on a magazine stand, would it attract your attention? Why/why not?They answered with yes, the composition of the page, with the sunlight and brightness makes it stand out. In addition, …
Making of: the article
For the article I had the photos, now I just needed to make the text. Before that, I wanted to have a big picture of how all the pages would look like, so I uploaded all pictures on Canva and started making some rough designs. It was a process of seeing where the photos would …
Making of: the table of contents
First I reminded myself of all the topic headers and subheaders, their categories and the page numbers. This way I know how much space left there is on the page. I decided to go with “Contents” as the title of this page. 02. Editor’s Letter 05. …
Making of: the covers
I wanted to create the covers last, so that I would have the entire article before and this would be the completion. But until I had these done, choosing a photo for the table of contents would be complicated, as one of the options was also an option for the cover. First of all, I …
Making of: the writer’s editorial
An editor’s letter is a personal short introduction written by the editor-in-chief, usually located near the front of a magazine. It introduces the issue’s theme, highlights featured stories, and connects with readers. There are two ways I could go about this. 1. Write the editor’s letter on one page and the table of contents on the …