Kyle Thompson
10th Grade Monarch High School
To access my final critical reflection presentation, click the file below. To access the voiceover, click the volume icon in the presentation.
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? My product matches the conventions used in most modern magazines. The picture used on the cover displays an appealing looking salad that has many health benefits. This helps to paint the picture for the reader of what the contents of the magazine are. The cover lines help to further introduce the contents of the magazine by giving the reader a few of the titles of the articles inside the magazine. The title of the magazine is big and in bold letters, like that of most magazines. This grabs the reader’s attention and makes it seem as though the magazine is fun and interesting. The magazine’s topic in general is also nothing new or unique when compared to many other magazines. Healthy food magazines have been around for years but are rising in popularity over recent years due to increased awareness about the benefits of eating healthier. My magazine fits perfectly in line with this idea because it teaches people how to eat healthier and what can be gained by doing so. My product represents social groups or issues by helping demonstrate how people can eat healthier. One of the most, if not the most common health issues in America today are obesity and high blood pressure. My magazine gives easy ways to eat and make healthier choices for your diet overall. One of the biggest problems people have when transitioning from an unhealthy diet to a healthy one is the flavor. This is because unhealthier foods tend to have better and more addictive tastes. My product gives good tasting and healthy recipes and provides healthier alternatives to certain aspects of obese diets. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? My product engages with audiences by using a few things. One is that my magazine cover has big, bold title letters to help it attract the attention of potential readers by making it hard to miss. It also has a picture of a delectable looking salad to further entice the audience and make them interested about the contents of the magazine. The picture also serves the purpose of painting the picture for what the magazine contains and what its articles discuss. Finally, the cover lines give the readers a taste of the kind of articles the magazine sports. My product would be distributed as a real media text mostly via the internet. Although there would be some paper copies made and distributed to the public, it would mostly be distributed and updated online. This is due to the fact that most magazines and articles are read online nowadays. My product would be marketed via mostly social media platforms like twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. These platforms are where most people get most of their information from. This makes utilizing them not only useful for marketing my product, but also for the distribution of it. How did your production skills develop throughout this project? My production skills have developed throughout this project in all ways. Before this project, I had some experience and practice with production, but it was very minimal. For the most part, I understood what effect the changes I made would have on my project's appearance, but no understanding of how they affected how people would view my project. Although, my production skills still did increase dramatically in both manners. Now I know how different things can be utilized to help grab peoples' attention better and keep them reading, which I had near no understanding of beforehand. How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project? I integrated technologies in this project by designing and editing it entirely online. In terms of software, I used the websites like Photopea and Canva to design and construct the entire magazine. I also used the internet to research other magazines for inspiration on how I could design my own. The way I integrated hardware in this project is mostly very simple and self-explanatory. I integrated hardware by using my computer and all the things the go with it, like a mouse and keyboard to design this project.
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The process to completing my magazine cover was the most tedious. The original, revised and completed cover all have different looks. After viewing each cover it would reveal new errors and issues that needed to be changed. Issues such as, color contrast, fonts, sizing, cover images and cover lines. In my original cover that colors and fonts did not go well together and made the appearance of the cover messy. The color contrast in my revised magazine made it very difficult to read the cover lines and the fonts were basic. Also, my original and revised were both missing a barcode. This lead to the complete new look of my magazine cover, many components were changed to fit the ideal look. New fonts, cover images, cover lines and a barcode were all used to achieve the final magazine cover.
The table of contents above are in order from first to last (top to bottom). From the first to the second one, I added some pictures to help further entice the reader and give them a better idea of what to expect throughout the magazine. I also updated the articles based on what I thought would fit and suit the overall theme and idea of the magazine better. Finally, I made some small changes to the font sizes of the text to make it appear better. From the second to the final edition I didn't change too much. Again, I changed some of the articles to ones that better suited the magazine and that I was more knowledgeable on. I added the italics font effect to all the descriptions of the articles simply because I thought it looked better. I added borders to the pictures to help them pop and stand out more. While this change may not be very noticeable, I also adjusted the positions of all the text to better line up.
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Kyle ThompsonI'm 16, I go to Monarch High School. Archives
April 2021
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