Q 6 ) What have you learnt about the process of constructing this product?

I  have used many different software and website technologies to produce my final magazine design...........





I have used serif heavily for the main construction. By using this I have learnt a lot about how to crop and frame photos to good sizes that fit on the page well. I have also learnt how to use text boxes and column alignment to set up the page correctly in a magazine style. I also used these text boxes to do captioning on the images. Additionally I used the title writing for the pull quotes of the magazine feature article. This has taught me the importance of sizing and cropping images down to the right size as it makes them look as good as possible and makes it easier for readers to be able to look and uderstand the photos without any unecssesary backiground space. It also helps (especially on the cover page) to keep a lot of room for other advertisements/article snippets/ pull quotes, for what going too be inside the magazine.    


 





I used photoshop to edit certain pictures. I learnt about erasing backgrounds and making them blank so that they fit in with the magazine better. From this I learnt how useful photoshop is in the commercial world for getting picture perfect, in the colour scheme you want, so that they look presentable and also look of a high, Professional quality.  













I have used the website DaFont.com too. I used this for the heading font of my double page spread. I learnt how to copy it from daFont.com and paste into serif then fix into place on the page. I then used serif to edit the colour of it. From doing this it has taught me how important using a recognisable font is in the industry of magazines, it helps to add to the look and makes it recognisable and memorable.  



 

 









  Finally I have used Blogger.com to publish all my work online for examining purposes and so I can categorise all the different sections of my coursework from 'Prelim' to 'Evaluation' so that its is easily accessible and I can then obtain feedback easily from students and teachers. Ive learnt, from using blogger, how to post written text, pictures, and embedded videos so that the can be viewed by teachers, examiners, and students. I have also learnt how to draft certain posts and edit certain post then updating them so improvements can easily be made.

I have used facebook for getting a lot of feedback for my ideas for the magazine pages. I did this by positng pictures on my timeline and asking my friends on facebook for the feedback I needed. From doing this I have learnt about how using social networking can be useful in the business world as it is open to so many different people meaning you are likely to get a big response.