For my third CCR I decided to use a podcast to describe how my production skills have developed throughout this project.
Podcast Link- CCR 3- How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
Podcast Recap-
Throughout the project my production skills have developed greatly. While there is still a lot for me to learn, a lot was learned throughout this project. In the beginning of the project the only experience I had prior with photography was taking Instagram photos with my friends. I learned the importance of lighting and looking into many other factors when taking photos.
I learned this lesson during my first photo shoot. The lighting was not the best and the images did not match my color scheme at all. although my first photo shoot was not the best, it made my other photo shoots much better. It gave me ideas to look into studios that I could go to with good lighting and professional set ups. And it also taught me what I should avoid and look for before I take photos.
Not only did this Project help my photography skills. It also helped my editing and designing skills. I had to try many different apps and websites to edit my images and design my magazine. I used apps that were free of charge but still had fantastic editing templates and examples. these editing apps also taught me how to adjust the brightness, saturation, contrast, transparency and even more. I also learned how important it is to mess around with images before they are put into the magazine because there are always small adjustments with editing that can be made.
This project inspired me to be more creative. I tend to always stick with a modern or very neat look but instead with this project I decided to make it a little more colorful. I was inspired to be more creative because I wanted my magazine to be tasteful to the eye. The website I used to design my magazine showed me many different templates of other magazines. Looking through templates of other magazines gave me ideas for mine and even inspired color schemes. This website also gave me access to different shapes, transitions, and layouts for the pages within my magazine. I changed everything up but having availability to this really allowed me to start my path in a good direction.
This project has also taught me that research plays an important part in producing an organized project . Researching magazine covers, table of contents pages, and double page spreads within my genre allowed me to get a good understanding of what I would like my magazine to look like and the content that will be within it. Researching also allowed me to take notes on what I do not want in my magazine and what not to do.
Overall, my biggest take away throughout this project with my production skills is that I learned to always keep an open mind, be creative, and that you have to fail before you can succeed.
My first CCR will be in response to the question "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?" In response to this question I decided to use a Prezi to go over the main issues that my magazine will be drawing attention towards. Each topic that was shown in my Prezi are topics that will help Women's Well-Being and will encourage my readers to focus on mental health, physical health, and positive life choices. These topics focus on major issues that women tend to be misleaded or have a lack of attention looked at upon them.
Prezi Link-
https://prezi.com/view/ET6WfNP1YKmT4CMIru7Y/
Citations-
https://www.pinerest.org/newsroom/articles/mental-health-awareness-blog/
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/instagram-fitness-influencers-scams
CCR #2- How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? For my second Creative Critical ...
