Creative Critical Reflection Draft #4

How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware and online - in this project?

For the project I utilized adobe Photoshop and InDesign to create the product. In order to create the first draft I did not use Photoshop, but in the second draft I decided to use it to both edit pictures and design the pages. With the use of Photoshop I was able to get specific with colors and add effects to the text. For example, on the cover, I used Photoshop to make the title appear 3D and create a shadow. In addition I used Photoshop to create the border in a very specific green. I then exported this as picture and put it in InDesign to add the feature article titles . The reasoning for this is that it is much easier to work with text in InDesign. Essentially I used Photoshop as the base for the design of my pages and then used InDesign for the text attributes. For the table of contents I used Photoshop to create the green blacks of the color to match the border on the cover. Finally for the two page article I used Photoshop to create the tag at the top of the page. On the photography side I used a Canon Rebel 7D to take pictures. These produced high quality pictures to create a more professional and realistic end product.

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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.

Mid Term Submission

Contrary to the original plan for the Cover Page I changed the color of the font to white to make sure that the Title and Feature Article tittles were visible. In addition in table of contents I used one large picture rather than several small ones. I had to do this in order to fit all of my article titles on the table of contents. When I was creating the template I didn't account for the large number of article titles.

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

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