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1. How does your product use or challenge convections and how does it represent social groups or issues?
My product uses convections by having a straightforward organization. If you just want to use it to get help on your designs, you can do that. It is neat which and organized, and there will be charts which can be taken out of the magazine with color wheels and the sort for easy reference. My product represents the different types of groups by having multiple genres and sub-genres available making it so that there is something for everyone. There will be informational sections where you may read about the history and stories of the images, and there will be sections where it’s just explaining art concepts and ways to improve your designs. 2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? My product engages with the audiences by giving them an opportunity to discover new books which they could possibly end up reading. Everyone has different art styles and this magazine's goal is to stay as objective as possible, only offering tips and knowledge, not opinions. As a real media text, it would likely be distributed at art supply shops and/or galleries so that as a person goes to check out art museums, or get some new paints, they can grab the magazine there too. If they have a specific artistic issue in mind or are just looking for something to read, they could easily look through the organized table of contents to see if anything sticks out to them. 3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project? Explain research, using different applications, layout and design of your magazine or video. My production skills developed a lot from working on this magazine. I had to study and see how I thought certain things would go together and envision how the final product would look to choose the best. I also learned that with things like this you really have to put the effort in, that you can’t just do the bare minimum and expect a good end result. I also learned how to navigate the software I used and organize everything to fit nicely. That along with the time I put to think about what I could add took a lot of time and I would definitely say my abilities approved. 4. How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware, and online – in this project? I integrated technology into this project by organizing the entire magazine using applications such as word and Canva. I used the internet to research any information I might need and to look at reference magazine layouts, to know what type of design I would want. I was unable to take my own images so I also took great use of the internet finding the images I wanted with only a few keywords. The software I used to actually design everything was obviously a huge part of creating it, and provided many layouts to choose from, and showed me grammatical errors before I even went to proofread.
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Getting to the Cover Page again I ended up looking at the layout designs and found some new ones which I thought would go well with my other layouts, the only negative being that the size of the image changed, which made my original photo of a painting look grainy. I determined that I wanted an oil painting for my replacement image, and originally tried to put a photo of a boy in a raincoat walking through the streets, but it once again turned too blurry and out of focus due to the blotchy characteristics of some oil paintings. Looking for a replacement I decided upon an oil painting of a cityscape, and found a painting of a Paris Landscape which looked amazing, and was detailed enough that you could tell the image was not of poor quality, while it still possessed the qualities which had made me want an oil painting in the first place.
Returning to my Table of Contents page I changed a few of the headings, adding in ideas I had wanted to add to my two-page spread, but ultimately had not had the space to, leaving a nod to them should anyone bother to check. I also changed all of the page numbers to make them all match up, because the Cover Page and the Table of Contents told you that the same article was on two separate pages that would not say anything positive about my abilities.
After going through majority of Vincent van Gogh’s Art Galleries, I have decided one method which makes its appearance in several of his paintings would be the Horizontal Line Art Theory, of which claims that in order to have a realistic perspective of a painting, a person's body must line up with the horizon line at a fixed point. There can be a low perspective where the horizon line meets everyone's knees, a middle perspective which goes across the length of their chests, and a high perspective where the horizon is lined with the heads of the people. It would be easy to show examples of it and explain while still being informative.
This update is because I found a different image for the bottom right corner of the table of contents page, which I fell goes better with the layout then the previous, and now that I had all my images decided on, I added the credits on them, since I did not create any of the paintings or take any of the images.
I rearranged the order of which the pages were written so that they could be grouped together into the categories of advice in the beginning of the book and history at the end, so those who have a preference on what they would like to read will have an easier time navigating the magazine.
After I completed the original draft, before I got my feedback, I revisited the templates tab of Canva, and found a more simplistic design which changed the size of the image I added, how the title was formatted, and where the writing went. I changed the organization of the second page, but none of the information on either of the pages, I did not touch the layout of the first page of the layout, as I already plan to make changes to the information on it and would rather wait until I am certain about what is on my magazine before I think about how it is on my magazine.
I have written my rough draft for my article, detailing the life of Vincent Van Gogh, and have found a simple template I like, so I have begun to add that to my double-page spread, however, the article has ended up taking an entire page contrary to the half of a page I was planning on, so I believe I will remove the guide to drawing faces and relocate the color guides to the left page, so the spread still has a good amount of variety.
Putting more though to my new concept of art, I have come up with some ideas for what to add on my double page spread. I’ve determined that my article will be about the story of the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh, covering around half a page of the magazine in a segment labeled “Behind the Art.” I intend to add a guide for drawing anatomy, with more focus on trouble aspects such as proportions for faces, side profiles, and drawing hands. These guides would have detailed instructions and cover the first page. The second half of the second page would have a color wheel and shading guide for how to color match your paints.
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AuthorMy name is Rebecca Fry, I am in the tenth grade, and I am creating this blog detail the process of making my magazine. Archives
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