Feedback

I just received the interview that I gave in to correct, back from my media teacher. Both of us sat down together and read through the questions and discussed matters such as the wording of them. Next I am going to add in the corrections we discussed and once that is done I will post my final interview piece on my blog. After this, it will be ready to use on the double page spread of my magazine.

Working on Interview Questions

I have been working on my interview questions as soon I will be starting to construct the double-page spread page. As I had already decided on the questions, I had to write up the answers next. To check to see if the interview questions and responses will work, I have handed them to my media teacher for feedback;

Photoshop Tutorials

Here are some tutorials I came across on YouTube that I think will be very helpful to me throughout this project;

Blur & Spot Tool on Photoshop

Getting Familiar with InDesign

As I have never used InDesign before, I wanted to play around with the program to get used to it. I set up my page and explored with the different tools;

 

After doing this, I feel a little more comfortable with the basics, and I feel like I have now got a base which I can build on and learn more.

Following Conventions

Working on the Interview Questions

As I had made up an artist, I had to also create interview questions from scratch. Initially I thought that perhaps I could use any artist and then pretend their answers were from my artist however I then thought that this might not work as well, due to not getting the correct response. Therefore I put myself in the artist’s position and wrote out the responses as I would imagine my artist to answer;

 

Introduction to 'InDesign'

In today’s lesson, we were introduces to ‘InDesign’, which is an Adobe program. This tutorial has helped me understand some basic features about the program and taught me some simple and straight forward information that would help me get stated;

To gain some more information and knowledge that will help me make the most of the program, I plan to start experimenting and playing around with it so that I get used to the layout, format and discover new and useful tools that will help me create a successful final piece.