Double page spread

Double page spread
This is what my double spread page looks like.

There is one of my double page spread pages, I have heading of the article "DARKNESS HAS FALLEN"  in capital letters and made the font size big because using capital letters will make it bold and making the font size big to show its important also it will stand out.

I have created black snow around the heading because it goes with the name of the band "Dark Winter" because the word dark and winter doesn't really go together also the title darkness has fallen so the black snow is to show that darkness has fallen and dark winter is here.
I have used a deck in my double page spread and this is an code and convection I saw in my research and I thought I should use it because its useful to the audience so instead of them reading the whole article and they may not like it so it would allow them to decide if they want to read the article or go to a different page.
I have used a drop-cap and this is another code and convection I used in my research and this is the one I saw the most in my research and I decided to used it and I added an blue outline around the word and the font colour Black.
I have added an pull out text and this is an code and convection I saw in my research so I thought why not use it also it shows what the one of the members said is important for it to stand out more than everything else.
There are two different types of font colours, the colour black and light blue, the colour "Black" is used when the interviewer Matthew Smith is talking and the colour "Light blue" is used when members of "Dark Winter" is talking also the "Black" colour text is in a bigger font size than the responses from the band because its a question being asked to "Dark Winter" so that the audience can tell who is saying what also the audience can tell which ones the question and which one is the response by me using to different colours.

This is the other page to the double page spread.

I had added an group picture of the band and on the top part of the second page so that the audience can  know what the band members looks like and the reason why the picture is like that is explain on another post.

Content page

Content page

This is my content page
I have included some of the well known heavy metal/rock, bands/artists.
I have made the word "contents" be in bigger font than everything on the page also made it the colour red to show that it stands out.

I have made the features bigger size font and I have made the information about the features in an small font size because this is an code and convection I normally see in a magazine.

I have made numbers red because to show how important they are also it makes it easier for the audience to read the text quicker and to make it stand out so that the audience can see where the numbers are.

I have made the text for the cover story big because its the main cover story of the magazine also its suppose the attract the audience so that they want to read that page.

My double page spread photo

My double page spread 

I created this by dragging each of the photographs onto an A4 page in Photoshop, Then I used the eraser tool to blurr out the hars lines which singles out each image. Thus symbolyses that they are together as a band, but are singular as people and have their own separate individual personalities.

Evaluation 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression form it to the full product

In the preliminary task I didn't really know how to use a camera or know the basics like zooming in and out however in the main task I know that now and I know what type of shot I am looking for and the type of pictures that I want to take.

In the preliminary task I didn't know what I was looking for or type of pictures I need but now I do know what I need in my main task.
This the magazine I made in my preliminary and if I was asked to do it now, I would have added more coverlines and make the masthead bigger also put it behind the main image to make my magazine more professional also its an code and convection to do, I would have also made the text of the font size bigger and change the colour to make it readable so that my audiences can see the coverlines.

My contents page for my preliminary task is alright however the font size and text is plain and it doesn't really attract my audiences.

However now my work is better than my preliminary task because I
follow the codes and convention for my magazine and my magazine looks like a real life magazine.

What went well in my research is that I found what I was looking when I was researching the codes and convections, what I would improve is my understanding of the codes and convection when I started my research because I was still a bit confused about what I was actually looking for in my research.

I am happy with my contents page because I looks like a real content page and I wish it was the same for my front cover, people say it looks good however I don’t personality feel that it express what I wanted it to be.

I enjoyed taking the pictures because it was a new experience also I got to see old friends from high school that I hadn't see for a long time also I can keep the photos to remember the good time I had with them when doing the photo shooting as they say photos last longer.

I learnt how editors and writers feel when they produce a magazine, its hard and it takes a long time but its worth making one.  

Front cover

Front cover 

This is my front cover and I have added a lot of coverlines to it and the colour I used is orange to get the audiences attention and using the orange allows me to highlight that the audience can "win two tickets to see fallout boy" and that's why I used it.

My model I used is suitable for my magazine because my magazine is about a heavy metal magazine and he has piecing so its suitable and its relates to my magazine.

The cover story is the second biggest font on the magazine besides the masthead and I made it the colour "Blue" because of the word "winter"

I added free three posters because its an code and convection that I saw in my research for the magazine to have free posters for the audience and this can be a way to attract my audiences.

Evaluation 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation 6

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

The technology that I used for in my media course is Blogger I was new to blogger at the time and the more I used it, the easier it became to use blogger, the difficult part about Blogger is to insert images on to blogger because I would put it one place then the image will move the whole text and it was annoying. However I overcame my challenges and now I know how to use Blogger properly.

I used a Digital Camera for the first time, it wasn't very hard to use and I made sure I had the strap on so any accidents won’t happen and I learnt how to zoom in and out of my model also I was able to take shoots that I wanted for my magazine successfully also I didn't take lot of pictures because I did would take longer to choose the good ones. Originally I had 3 models than I borrow my friend’s model because I wanted a female model to so I can get so female audiences to by using a female model for my band.

I had to use Photoshop to manipulate the image to use my magazine and it took me a long time to do because the only way I can access Photoshop was in school only and not a home so I couldn't do much at home but only at school I can so lunch times and break time I had to prioritise my time properly so that I wouldn't miss Misses deadlines and it took me long time to find the right colour that won’t look odd or weird on my front cover and contents page and double spread page also when using Photoshop, you to click so many functions such to get the basic thing done for example: re-sizing an image.

I used Indesign to finish my magazine because that’s the rules, Indesign is similar to photoshop however I am still new to using indesign even in the preliminary task much hasn't really change, but I know more about Indesign and how it works now than before.






Survey Monkey is an technology that I didn't know how to use now I know that there are different types of questions and type of styles of questions and I learnt how to get different style of questions for example: multi-choice questions.


                                                                                I used slideshare for the first time, it was very easy and it took couple of seconds to load my presentation and now learnt that is use slideshare.


I used prezi for the first and it's more presentable than using powerpoint however it takes a long time to understand how to use prezi and this is why I don't want to use it again.