New Media Technologies | Final Evaluation Question

The final question for our evaluation was done through a magazine article

in a double page spread. Due to the some errors reading the text, i had to enhance the size of the

text. I encountered this problem, assuming that the document will be readable because the real size of the double spread was in a fact, the size of a double page spread.

[CURRENTLY TESTING] seeing that the text is still small, 

i'm going to see if i can increase the size of the text a bit 

more without altering the magazine layout.

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

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Final product

Audience feedback. What have we learned?

Magazine Cover | COMPLETE!

Although the deadline is a little late, finally the magazine cover is complete. With our antagonist character consuming the page, we've also included other elements which relate to the horror genre. The tweaking and updating took a lot of hard work, mostly for the main photograph since the quality kept down grading, furthermore trying to force the magazine title behind our antagonists head. This involved constant tutorial searches on the internet, primarily on how inDesign works in synergy with Photoshop and Illustrator. It turned out, we had to save the photo as a PDF file, after deleting the black background we didn't need around his head. After bypassing that obstacle, the next was to work on the text and typography. We all weren't as used to Adobe Indesign compared to Photoshop and Illustrator, so we all had to quickly learn how to work it to our needs. We learned a few new things about the software, specifically how and when to use the tool Edit/Place to import photos and images. We also learned about image qualities, and how it is manipulated by the press of a button. The main problem we faced with InDesign was the 'links' and how images are primarily not in focus because they lost the link to its file. There were so many obstacles, but we managed to over come them all to create a convincing magazine cover. Our choices of layout, type and colour came from a specific cover of empire magazine. The image is displayed below:

Our final magazine cover:

15-03-2013

Today we have started our evaluation questions however we are still working on our magazine! This is because we are trying out different things to make it that extra bit better!

We have also delegated different evaluation questions and have decided how we will tackle them. With the poster complete and the trailer pretty much there, the magazine is the last thing to do which will be done by next week. (Well we hope so)!