Friday 12 May 2017

Evaluation Question 7

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. 

Evaluation Question Six

Blogger - To begin researching i decided to set up a blogger account. All the course work i have done has been published onto my blogger. How ever a majority of it was written on Excel, Photoshop, Word and power point.

Survey Monkey - When conducting my primary research i had decided to use the online questionnaire website 'survey monkey. This allowed me to get my primary research questionnaire out to my target audience. This benefited me as it allowed me to quickly create and gain information from a questionnaire. Also it was free and if i had to decided to not do conduct my questionnaire virtually it would of cost money for factors such as transport and printing

Photoshop - When creating my production i decided to use Photoshop. Although prior to creating my magazine i had no experience with using Photoshop, i feel like i quickly gained a understand and the ability to use Photoshop throughout my production.  I used Photoshop as my school had already bought the app for student use which saved me money and also that it allows to me to quickly develop my magazine in a way which i can understand.

Excel - After i had conducted my primary research i had to find a way to post my results. Through creating graphs using Excel i found it easy to do so. As I am already proficient in using Excel I felt like it would make most sense and would be most time efficient to use. I made five accurate graphs through Excel.

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