What have I learnt
from the overall process
From this process of creating an annotated analysis of two
front covers and two contents pages of two different school magazines, it has
given me an insight of what a school magazine should include and represent.
From the analysis, it has helped me make the final decision on what to include
on my very own school magazine templates and drafts. The planning part, of
drafting the school magazine included, me taking pictures of relevant parts of
the school, including students and also considering what my audience wants
through an audience research survey and taking in consideration the analysis
process and other important considerations such as; masthead designs, magazine
name, what images to use, what colours schemes will be suitable, strap-lines,
puff and cover lines. This process has allowed me to use many different skills
such as Photography, Video editing. Photo Editing and different ways of
publishing content onto my blog (sukhpal-singh-pawar.blogspot.com)
How have I learnt the
skills
There are many different resources which I have used to
learn these skills. Photography was learnt through hours of practicing
different angles and movements on my iPhone 6s Plus. Multiple images were taken
of the same object when taking pictures for my School Magazine to find the more
suitable lighting and angle for the image, so it is presented in a formal and
professional way. Video editing and Photoshop was learnt through watching
multiple videos on YouTube on how to use certain software's i.e. Adobe
Photoshop CC, Sony Vegas and Adobe Premier Pro CC. HTML coding was learnt
through also watching hours of 'basic' coding techniques through YouTube and to
gain a knowledge of how to do basic coding and to develop my HTML coding skills
from there. HTML code was mainly used when some pupils copied the HTML
embedding code from Word to blogger but it didn't allow others to view the
embedded information due to the 'Share-Point' domain privacy. But that was
fixed when I found out that the issue was due to the HTML of the embedding code
was protected; which was later suggested by me to use a public domain e-mail
address i.e. @hotmail.co.uk instead of a private domain email address i.e.
@hamsteadhall.com
How will these skills
help me
The skills which I learnt through the preliminary task will
help me and advise me on how I come across making the music magazine when the
time comes. These skills will benefit me as I know if I face any technical
issues with designing my music magazine or even on blogger.com/software issues,
I will know how to react to this issue and also resolve the issue. The images taken on my phone has taught me
what angles and movements to do; overall improving the lighting and framing of
the images, this will be beneficial to me as when I come to produce the music
magazine, I will be aware of how to take suitable images and how I could
improve the quality of the images also.
