What new transferable skills have you learnt?

I have learnt how to communicate meaning through out my work and i have learnt to collaborate and help other peers with their work allowing us to gain feedback. This then helped us to develop our work and make it the best we can for our final copy. I can use this skills everywhere in life and this would allow me to utilize this in later life

What new design skills or production techniques have you learnt?

I have learnt a lot of skills on InDesign – which is an adobe program I had not used since I started the sixth form. These skills have enabled me to make my front cover, my DPS and my contents page. This is a very nice program to design anything with. I am looking forward to creating my adverts for my magazine, I am also looking to invest in the software for personal use as it is very fun to create some amazing designs.

What went well

• The transferable skills I learnt on photoshop when I was in high school, that I have been able to utilize in creating backgrounds and to cut photos out.
• The photoshoot for my front cover went well after I learnt how to use my camera properly to get the right photos.

What went even better

• The support I had from my teacher who taught me how to use the programs as there was a lot I was getting confused over. As well as my teacher I had a lot of support from classmates who gave me a lot of feedback on some parts of my work and I was given a lot of targets on how I could improve my work which really helped set a goal to achieve.
• My research went very well as I picked a genre of music which really interested me so I was very passionate about learning about the different cultures and processes it takes to make the songs and the whole sort of vibe of the music.

I used the slice tool a lot (which is pictured below). This helped me to cut around my images allowing me to then put the photo onto a transparent background to then put in my magazine

These are the tools we used in InDesign to create my magazine.

I have been taught how to use InDesign, these tools pictured and annotated is what I’ve been using to make my music magazine. I learnt how to proportionally put a photo in my box. I also learnt how to size them all and re alight text.

Media Ecology is a theory concept that covers media, technology and communication and how they affect human environments, as-well as how they all rely on each other. It was first introduced in 1962 by Marshall McLuhan For example, our ecosystem works as follows:

• Money comes in from paying customers at the ticket booth for their boat ride to the island, hotel night stay and return ticket
• The Boat then Carries that money and the people to the island as well as its stock
• The other boat already on the island then ships the money and the people back to the hotel where they have a nights stay
• The Hotel then has supplies to upgrade their appliances which makes the customers come back for another stay
• Then the boat brings the people back to the ticket booth to return home but are given a free nights stay at the hotel but have to pay to the boat ticket which attracts more tourists(building communities)

When producing my music magazine I will need to think about all the components in the media ecology to obtain the best potential outcome of my magazine. For example, my audience and how I will distribute my media to them, this will affect how my communities are built up with the type of social media that I share.