Over
the period of creating my magazine production, I have developed skills and
become more proficient in different forms of applications and technology.
For
starters, I have developed a deep understanding and now are able to fluently
take advantage of Adobe Photoshop. Through using Photoshop, I have developed my
image editing skills and can now edit images to my desire in good detail and maintain
the sharpness of those images. Through Photoshop, I have also built up
confidence during the overall process of creating a production.
I have also discovered how to use three different Microsoft applications
more effectively and efficiently, Excel, Word and Power Point. First through Excel,
I have discovered how I can use the program to use design graphs. I designed
the graphs for the results of my primary research and I now feel more confident
when using excel as I have learnt a new skill from using it. Word and power
point were just places where I could save my work while typing it up. I had to
use both of these programs.
In
order for me to present some of my work in a power point format, I had to use
Slide Share. At first using slide share proved to be a challenge and I was not
sure on how to use it. However now I have used it multiple times I am now familiar
with how to use this and I can now use this to its advantage and use it in
later projects.
I used blogger as a website where I could host all of my
course work. Before the begging of this course, I was unfamiliar on how and why
I should use blogger. Through the duration of my production I have learnt how
to operate blogger and how to layout/design a page. I can confidently say that
my skills when it comes to using blogger have greatly improved.
Personal Reflection
I believe I did make a successful music magazine as I have
established an obvious house style throughout my magazine, I have ensured to
use conventional uses of typography, mis en scene, images and all of the other
micro-elements. I have also determined my magazines success as I have made the
design very appealing to audiences and ensured that it would gather attention.
Over the course of my magazine production, I most enjoyed
the creation of the Cover Page. As this was the first chance for me to express
my creativity and create, something in which I felt like represented myself and
the musical genre I had chosen to work within.
However, I felt like I could of further developed, my
skills with Microsoft Excel as I feel like I had only scratched the service on
what I can do in order to use Microsoft excel effectively. I also feel like I could
improve the blank space at the bottom of the double page by filling up with either
a sub-image or more article.
Over the whole process, I have learnt the values of creating
a production individually by developing my own ideas and channeling my own
creativity and emotions into the production.
