Evaluation 5 & 6

What have you learnt about technologies throughout this process and what new things have you learnt?

Throughout the process of working towards my final music magazine, I have learnt the importance of new technologies such as; InDesign and Photoshop, within the world of media. It is imperitive to being able to create products like music magazines, or indeed, magazines in general. It allows us to be able to create and put to life new and fresh ideas. 

I have also learnt the importance of using things such as rulers/guidelines and also layers when working with such technologies. Layers are especially important as without properly laying out your deisgns they become easily confused and mixed up, making it very hard to edit the smallest of things quickly. Rulers and guidelines are important as it gives you the ablity to be able to lay things out acurately, for example ensuring an image is central to the page, or that there is equal space both sides of something.

Font, and font colours are something that I have learnt how to use adequately. Throughout this process I have had to try and push myself to use fonts or colours that I would normally try to avoid, in order to make a title, or piece of text, stand out more. I have learnt how important it is to have something (especially on the front cover) of which is sure to attract an audience and give them a reason to pick up the magazine. If the text/font is boring and bland, with no effects, for example; stroke, then it is likely to be ignored.

One very important thing that I have learnt in this process is the importance of time-keeping, and creating/sticking to a schedule. I have learnt that it is so important to lay out a project and stick to it as much as possible, especially when you have a specific deadline, as if you over-run on one thing for example doing drafts then you are then likely to run behind schedule for the rest of the project, making it extremely hard to meet the final deadline.