Creative Critical Reflection Draft #3

How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Production skills include time management, effective use of the programs and communication. These skills have improved throughout the project. For example I have learned the time each task involved in creating this project takes and how to plan into my schedule. I also worked on the programs such as adobe Photoshop and adobe InDesign while in class where I had access to them. This meant that I had to finish my blogging at home if I ran out of time in school. As far as the programs are concerned, throughout the process I had to learn how to speedily and effectively execute what I wanted to complete. This meant that I had to do some research into how to create a certain feature in Photoshop. Finally I had to communicate with the rest of my team in order make sure that our magazines were cohesive. This was extremely prevalent, due to the multitude of revisions we made.

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Interviews & Questions

While working on developing my interview questions I had to decide what I wanted to write about. Due to the time of year I decided I wanted to write about winter training. A series of intense workouts that aim to make everyone on the team faster on the water. Due to the fact that I am a rower it was hard to ask questions, because I already know the answers to most of them, but I managed to come up with some 1. By your definition what is winter training ? 2. Do you think it is a necessary part of training ? 3. If you had a choice would you choose to winter train? 4. What is your reasoning ? 5. What is the most important part of rowing? 6. What is something that most people don't know about rowing ? I conducted these interviews either before or after practice.

Revision-Cover page

According to my last post the cover page needed to be revised. This includes changing the title from Sota Sports to Soflo Sports. This makes sure that the magazine can have a larger audience and a more realistic chance of being a successful business. In addition I added a border and worked on the cover in Photoshop in order to give it depth in the title and an overall more sporty look. Finally we changed the font of the feature article titles. In this way the magazine title would pop more. Final Cover Page Original Cover Page Cover Page Template

Creative Critical Reflection Draft #1

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? The genre of this magazine is sports. This determines the conventions that we have to either adhere to or challenge. In our case we chose to adhere to them, using a sport like font , the feature article titles present on the cover, using the same sport like font throughout the entire magazine, etc. On the cover page we used the title "SOFLO SPORTS" which fits the standards of the genre. Many sports magazines contain a word in their title that make it clear to the consumer the topic of magazine. In addition we had our three feature articles present on the cover as we noticed was a reoccurring trait during our research into other magazines. Finally for the cover, each of us made sure to use a dominant action photo. Another trait that we spotted during our research. Finally we added a border, which is a characteristic seen only in some magazines but we decided to use in order...

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