AICE Media Studies AS- Angelo, G

  BLOG 2: COVER AND CONTENTS DESIGN PART 2             During the first week of my winter vacation I decided to continue designing my magazine rather than putting all of my focus on the feature article, which I am saving for the second week. I begun using the Photoshop program to design some of my icons and digital images, since I have prior experience in Adobe Photoshop, I have had no troubles creating what I had envisioned. The InDesign program is also becoming easier to me to understand, I am continuing to research and discover just how many features InDesign has. The 3 rd and 4 th pages of my magazine are being created much quicker and with significantly more detail than 1 st and 2 nd page as I continue to use the program. As I stated earlier in the blog, my plan for the second week of winter break is to begin focusing on the feature article, which includes finding professional sources to question and quote within my m...

  BLOG 1: COVER AND CONTENTS DESIGN This week in AICE Media Studies I focused on beginning the creation of my first and second pages for my magazine in the InDesign Program. Initial Efforts in this creation process have proved somewhat challenging, as I am learning the program as I create these pages. I have made great use of the shape design tool, allowing me to outline and build my magazine without looking to other programs. I am also making use of the color tool properly color in the shoes I have placed. The InDesign program is quite intuitive, and for someone who is good with tech it is quite easy to understand after some initial difficulties. The Cover page is nearly complete, all I require now is the picture of a phone head that will go in the middle and the insertion of text. The contents page is also coming quite well, with a phone book logo that needs to be created to complete the design. I will continue to make the remaining designs for my magazine pages so that I may foc...

  INTRODUCTION:             The creation of my magazine storyboard was quite simple, as I already had a general idea and some specifics already within my mind. Perhaps the most challenging part of the storyboard was creating a template that others could understand while also keeping my vision of the magazine intact. Through making a storyboard, I had learned how to input all my ideas without holding back any amount of information, this was both promoted and encouraged and affected some changes for my vision. Through observing how my ideas would look on paper, adjustments could be made to properly accommodate my vision into a magazine further enhancing my concept and making it as good as it can be. Further, I have realized that there are many ideas that could not properly function within the magazine for viewers, and they have been altered or removed accordingly. Allowing myself to see my magazine from the perspective of an outs...