Critical Creative Reflection

Question 1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

Podcast (4 minutes)

Question 2: How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

Magazine Themed Makeup (4 minutes)

Question 3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Presentation

 (2 minutes)

Question 4: How did you integrate technologies -software, hardware, and online- in this project?

Presentation (2 minutes)

Final Brief

 

Production #25 Finishing Elements

 Finally almost complete I wanted more of the photos I took in the magazine so I made a photo page before my feature article and this is my now layout.

I added this green page!

Production #24 Feature Article

To began i wrote my article on google docs to find and finalize any spelling mistakes or format 

issues.

I then created a spread in InDesign. I did this by using a square or rectangle coloring it orange 

and creating a line in the center for separation of pages. 

all I did then was add pictures, my title/header in another rectangle (this time white), my name, copy pasted my article I wrote on docs to InDesign, added page numbers and I was finished for the spread.

After the spread I still had more writing so I made another page with exclusively writing to go after the pictures.

Production #23 Advertisement

 To began, I had to photograph what my plan was for my advertisement. 

A paper plate with a weight on top, showcasing how sturdy they are.

I began taking photos with my Kodak easyshare digital camera.

After taking all my photos I began to work in InDesign to create the page 

For my goal I want to cut out the paper plate and weight and place it onto this poster. Since I can not do this in InDesign I moved to Photoshop with the image I chose (the last photo listed).

After this, I saved the cut out photo into a PNG and exported it into InDesign to resize and 

angle it to my vision.

The next step was to add all my text about the pretend paper plate brand like where to find it, how 

wonderful of a product it is....

After this it was almost done but, I thought it was missing something so I put messy 

"correction" handwriting into the giant heading to add more flair and then it looked done.

Done!

Production #22 Table of Contents

 To began I did a trial run to correctly make a layout page.

I did it wrong but I ended up doubling the dimensions of the standard size tabloid.

After, created I made a triangle shape and filled it over the entire spread for the background. Then

created a black line in the center for the separation of pages.

(shown below)

Next,I created the title name with the same properties as my masthead besides the font size and colors.

After, I created my six rectangles to encase my pretend titles (besides my feature article)

three on each page with repeating basic colors.

Next, using the pencil tool I doodled little "summer" or related drawings based to my article drawings

around the boxes to add whimsy a main goal of my magazine.

Finally, I added my titles all in varying fonts but legible, and but page numbers on the bottom of my pages.

Done!

 

Production #21 Cover

 To begin I chose which image to use for my cover. The only photo that matched my vision was this one of one italian ice and a radioball which me and my partner ordered.

To start, I placed my cover image (had difficulty sizing but I figured it out) and resized the format of the photo to landscaped instead of portrait and  had to crop/center and fit it to size.

I then created a border for my masthead to lie against and a strip or banner at the bottom to later have my barcode and maybe a coverline.

Above is my final decision it looked the most cohesive.

I then created the masthead and continued to tweak it until this point, then added what the acronym stood for underneath. (shown above)

I then began to place my coverlines.

I added shapes to back my cover lines and to be consistent with the other issue (my partner’s)

I then added a would be publishing date by my masthead.

Then, I made the barcode by creating many solid lines in a rectangle shape along with numbers.

Lastly, I added one of my enticing coverlines in the banner area!

Finished!

Production #20 Interview for Feature

 For the interview, I wanted to speak to someone who worked at rosies and target the emphasis on being a local staple if someone is in the know. Before I traveled to Rosie's I pre planned my questions (like any good writer haha).

 Being the most convenient I used my Apple notes app on my Iphone 11 to be quick and efficient in writing who ever I talk to's answers. Making my journey over, I took my partner with me as she would be getting a cold treat out of it and arrived.

As luck had it, the owner of Rosie's Gourmet Italian Ice was working! It was quite lively when we arrived some school kids from the middle school nearby. As I approached I told him about my project and he agreed.

My questions and answers from the interview is below:

 

I know the overall tone I want my feature article to have, a emphasis on nostalgia hence the title "When Nostalgia Gets Cold" but I also want it to be interesting and attention grabbing. I tried to be thoughtful of this when planning my questions, wondering how I could incorporate them.