Front Cover

This is my final front cover. This is an improvement from the first one I had tried done. The logo is much more improved, I've changed the puff and the font of the words in the banner and I've made the barcode smaller. I feel that this is more presentable than previous attempts I'd made before. Overall, I'm happy with this and feel that it does attract the rap genre as my model is not exactly smiling and cheery as you would expect in a pop magazine. When researching my star images for this genre, the artists on the front cover don't seem to smile.. however they connote seriousness and 'no-play' as such. I feel that my model has done this very well. The colour scheme , yet again, has been kept to and maintained throughout the cover, contents and 2 page spread.

Contents Page

This is my final contents page. As you can see I have tried to follow the 'Empire' Magazine contents page as that was my template. I wanted my contents page to be simple and not crammed with page numbers and information, as its not necessarily a page where the reader should be on for long. I also added Facebook and Twitter links at the bottom as I realise a few magazines tend to do this for their audiences. I also remembered to make the same page numbers as my two page spread that I had done separately as people tend to forget to do so. I also incorporated a banner much like my template also.

Contents Template.

2 Page Spread

This is my final 2 page spread. I have made the interview continue to both pages and the picture is slightly stretched across the two also. I included a little picture at the bottom right of two of my models, however made them to be in a relationship that the audience would know about. I remembered to include the logo again on the bottom right next to the page number as my Empire magazine does similar to this. I also did efficiently secure the red, black and white colour scheme which was something crucial that I was trying to maintain.
The sub-heading is like some I've seen when reading magazines myself and thought it would be a perfect little intro for the interview at the bottom.
I included a caption at the bottom left of the main picture, saying 'Mammi-C (pictured above) poses for Rap-id'. I remembered that most magazines have these little captions informing the reader of what is going on in the pictures on the page.
The only distinctive 'problem' would maybe be the shadow in the main picture, however, the audience wouldn't necessarily critique this minor error as they'd be far more interested in Mammi-C's answers.

School Magazine Link

http://sophiabahas.blogspot.co.uk/

This is the link to my preliminary task of the school magazine.

Evaluation Q7

Evaluation Q6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have learnt a lot about technologies and programs as I have constructed this product. Things I hadn't done before like, creating magazines, editing photos to a good standard and using blogs have increased my knowledge efficiently. I will definitely use what I have learnt in the future if I intend to do similar work to this. Also I can use techniques I have learnt for even little things like making cards etc.

The photo above is me constructing my two page spread. InDesign is probably the most complicated programme I learnt to use. At first it was just a load of buttons and little images that I saw no way of getting my head around. I've learnt how to create a book, magazine, and all types of documents. Indesign could also be very efficient for card making aswell. Changing text, colour, rotation, editing size are all things I could easily do to an image on Microsoft Word, but on Indesign it looked very complicated. I eventually got the hang of it all and learnt my way around Indesign. I still feel that this was the most complicated programme in the process of contructing my production. 

Another program that gave me a wider insight into technology was Photoshop. I found this very fun to use and I liked playing around with different alterations of my photo and deciding which one would go best one my cover, contents and two page spread. At first I found using the layer a bit tricky but I soon figured it all out. In terms of what I had learnt, I learnt how people who make the magazines do it all. I had never considered layers before when people made front covers but now it clearly makes sense that they do. I have also learnt the amount of work it takes to make a good front cover. I used to think you just had a picture and placed various pieces of text around the page but clearly with serious editing and concentration and other effects/techniques I can see now that its actually much more than that. Photoshop has taught me how serious and creative magazine editors and creators actually are. It takes more skill than I initially thought it did.

As I used Blogger, I learnt a load of techniques and shortcuts to make my blog look more presentable. When making presentations on Google Drive, Flickr and Prezi I wasn't sure on how to export those presentations onto my blog. However, through various Youtube tutorials I slowly figured out how to embed presentations to my blog. I had heard of embedding however I wasn't quite sure what it consisted of. Using Blogger has taught me all about it and now I have posted a range of presentations on my blog by embedding the link into the HTML section when I'm creating a post. I feel that I would be able to export presentations on other softwares using embedding and feel that I have learnt something very beneficial in the technology department.

Evaluation Q5