The One Where She Makes a Magazine Cover

 

Magazine Cover: Practice

    Before we began working on the magazine cover, we went over the different conventions magazine covers have. Conventions like mastheads, coverlines, strips, and more. I learned that said conventions help a magazine pop to the public and convey the genre to anyone looking to buy one. 

    My magazine cover is kind of like a lifestyle magazine for animals. This specific cover features the "Dog of the Year." To convey this genre, the masthead of the magazine cover is "Dogue" like Vogue but for animals, the featured dog as the cover image, and catchy coverlines and puffs that relate to what animal owners would be interested in reading about. 

    As for conventions I used catchy coverlines to catch the attention of people who might be interested in the subject, a strip to highlight the main purpose of the magazine, and contrasting but matching colors to highlight certain lines and puffs. 

    At the start, I was having trouble maneuvering over the application, I was confused about how to to color texts, import images, make covers, and just all of the basic things. But with some practice, I eventually learned how to get everything done. After getting used to it, everything came pretty easily. 

Next time I have to used Adobe InDesign, the project will probably come a lot easier to me, as I have had a lot more practice. 

    If I choose to do the magazine option instead of the video, this assignment and practice will definitely help me for that. 

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The One Where She Learns Camera Shots

  

Camera Shots

  - To properly learn camera work, our Media Studies class not only went over videos and articles with definitions and examples of camera movements, shots, and angles but also created projects to practice them and show full understanding. 

    - For the camera movements project, we had to create a short story with the theme "surprise." We had to make a storyboard and then a short video with 6 different camera movements. After it was done, we had to go over each movement we used in each scene and how that movement helped develop the story or convey the scene's meaning or tone to the audience. 

    - For the camera shots and angles project, we had to tell a narrative story about an inanimate object with 15 still picture slides, using 15 camera shots or angles. We also had to explain what was happening in each shot and the purpose of the angle/shot. 

    - I think that making the stories and getting the shots right was relatively easy, the only challenge my groups ran into were actually coming up with a story that line up with the movements, shots, or angles was the hardest part. 

    - These projects made me understand the definitions of each subject better by visualizing them and using them myself to make a story. Just writing notes wouldn't have let me understand it fully. 

    -I think that next time, I'll develop my ideas quicker and better to come up with a better ending product. 

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The First One

    

Introduction

    Hello everyone! My name is Andrea and this is my first blog post for my Media Studies class. Some things to know about me are that I love to read, watch movies, and binge TV shows. So far, I have liked my experience in Media Studies. What we have done in class interests me a lot. I hope to successfully document things in my portfolio. For the product, I think I'm going to want to choose the magazine. 

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