Creative Critical Reflection 1
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
TABLE OF CONTENTS: At first, I was a bit confused on how exactly I should set up my table of contents. Like everything else, I researched beauty and skincare magazines and looked at the way their table of contents was set up and how the layout drew viewer's attentions. As shown, I put titles of several articles of my magazine on the page, as well as the pages that they are on. The highest page number I have is 40, which is very common for the types of magazines that I have researched, due to all the ads in forms of marketing. I used a different picture for my "On the Cover" feature which I have seen several magazines do. It doesn't distract from the main theme because it is very similar to the actual front cover, except it is a two-shot. This gives variety in the forms of shots I used which keeps it interesting for my readers.
FRONT COVER: I didn't really branch out on the style of this photograph. I mimicked the style of many beauty/skincare magazines. I took a portrait of the founder of Microjuvenate and placed her in the two-thirds portion of the photo. I didn't use a filter on the photo just because I wanted to keep it crisp and simple yet bold. I messed with the exposure and saturation to give a more highlighted effect. The title of my magazine is bold yet a bit funky, to draw the reader's attention while appealing to the eye. I bolded the words "Donna Messenger" and "Microjuvenate" in the Headline to emphasize the theme/idea of my magazine. I followed conventions by adding the date of the issue and "listing" other article titles to grab the viewer's attention.
TWO-PAGE ARTICLE: I used a template on Pages by Apple in order to create this article. I did use my cover photo in the article which is not very original; however, I added more photos to maintain variety. Conventions were used when I placed the issue date of my magazine on the article as well as the social media page, which is a form of marketing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: At first, I was a bit confused on how exactly I should set up my table of contents. Like everything else, I researched beauty and skincare magazines and looked at the way their table of contents was set up and how the layout drew viewer's attentions. As shown, I put titles of several articles of my magazine on the page, as well as the pages that they are on. The highest page number I have is 40, which is very common for the types of magazines that I have researched, due to all the ads in forms of marketing. I used a different picture for my "On the Cover" feature which I have seen several magazines do. It doesn't distract from the main theme because it is very similar to the actual front cover, except it is a two-shot. This gives variety in the forms of shots I used which keeps it interesting for my readers.
FRONT COVER: I didn't really branch out on the style of this photograph. I mimicked the style of many beauty/skincare magazines. I took a portrait of the founder of Microjuvenate and placed her in the two-thirds portion of the photo. I didn't use a filter on the photo just because I wanted to keep it crisp and simple yet bold. I messed with the exposure and saturation to give a more highlighted effect. The title of my magazine is bold yet a bit funky, to draw the reader's attention while appealing to the eye. I bolded the words "Donna Messenger" and "Microjuvenate" in the Headline to emphasize the theme/idea of my magazine. I followed conventions by adding the date of the issue and "listing" other article titles to grab the viewer's attention.
TWO-PAGE ARTICLE: I used a template on Pages by Apple in order to create this article. I did use my cover photo in the article which is not very original; however, I added more photos to maintain variety. Conventions were used when I placed the issue date of my magazine on the article as well as the social media page, which is a form of marketing.
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