Thursday 7 May 2009

Evaluation

This is my evaluation. Click here

Saturday 2 May 2009

Wednesday 1 April 2009

Jessica Venner's Final Pieces!

Here are the final pieces of my magazine production and I am really proud of how they turned out.
Front Page




Contents Page

Double Page Spread

My Urban Beat front page layout plan (drawn)


To prove I created this product from my own ideas and by myself, here is the drawn draft of the front page:
I took out and edited a few ideas during the process of the technical processes for reasons expressed in my production of the front page blog.

My Urban Beat contents page layout (drawn)

To prove all of my ideas were my own and not completely improvised, below is a scan of my drawn draft I used to plan the layout of my contents page:







I edited and took out some of my original ideas when it came to making the actual contents page electronically for reasons I have expressed in my production of the contents page blog.

Evidence of font selection

Here are the two pages I filled with potential fonts for my magazine and then evaluated by hand. This shows I put thought into the fonts I used.




The programs I used for my Magazine Production

I used a variety of programs to achieve different affects and looks for my magazine and to make the actual magazine on.



  • Microsoft Publisher - To make the magazine on; to make the front page, contents and double page spread.
  • Microsoft Word - For writing the research, production reviews, editing small pictures and shapes and more.
  • Adobe Fireworks -For making my barcode, sticker, masthead etc.
  • Microsoft Excel - For editing the shapes for my front page.
  • Windows Photo Gallery - For viewing photos I had taken on my camera and uploaded onto the computer.
  • Adobe Photoshop - For editing photographs I took.
  • Internet Explorer - For browsing the internet for research into other magazines, for accessing and updating my blog and for using the website www.scribd.com.

The main wesbites I used:

  • www.scribd.com - For uploading documents so that I could put the links into my blog and then it could be viewed online on the website.
  • www.wikipedia.org - For research into institutes mainly
  • www.blogger.com - For uploading, updating and accessing my blog
  • www.1001fonts.com - For finding and using special and unique fonts for my magazine
  • www.google.com - For searching generally for information and research.

I did not use any images I did not originally take or create myself. ALL my material is original and my own design.