Creative Critical Reflection

Creative Critical Reflection

Feedback #2

When getting feedback from the class and Mr. Elsbree, Mr Elsbree said I need to darken the font color on the cover to see it clearer. For the Table of contents, some of my classmates said I need to fix the number 3 to not be so big and to be even with the other letters. For the article pages, I need to fix my columns so that they aren't so close to the borders and make my pictures a little bit smaller. I also need to add my page numbers and endorsers at the bottom. On my own behalf, Im going to pull out a quote and change the picture borders to regular and design or just play around with them and see wha looks good.

Magazine- 3rd Quarter Submission

Each magazine page, there are many changes that have been made. For the cover, the extra space has been filled, the title is changed and along with the font. For the table of contents, the extra space has been filled, an extra picture was added, and font change was also changed too. For the two articles, the writing column was fixed, the pictures were both enlarged, and the title of the article was enlarged and changed. The new critiques really helped and advanced my new and improved magazine as seen from the last magazine posted.

Magazine- Creative Critical Reflection

1. My product uses the traditional conventions of a magazine. I looked up the traditional ways of magazine distributions, how the magazine looks, and the designs used. A couple of techniques I used to create feeling was through Mise en scene. For the costume, the Girls Inc volunteers put on the Volunteer shirts to show that they were volunteering.To create a feeling for the audience, it helped show they are in the community and helped create a connection. For location, the location  is at Girls Inc which helps connect to the younger generation and helps create a meaning of  importance to the Girls Inc Community and the female audience that reads the article. Another technique used was a wide shot. The wide shot in some of the pictures helped show the variety of girls in the program. This helps create a feeling of diversity to the female circle and that the program offers open arms to everyone. The traditional way that the magazine will be distributed through is print and some social media uses like Facebook and Instagram. My magazine also represents many different social groups such as elementary kids that are the age of 8-10 and then high school students that are from 9th grade to 12th grade. The other social groups that the magazine represent are the are the older generation and also the homeless. 
2.  My magazine engages with the audience by meeting the interests of that type of audience and what they want to read. Interests could be involving apps like Twitter and 'retweeting' tweets, or re blogging content that the audience would find amusing. By providing this value to the audience and readers, it will engage them to keep reading the magazine and find out what else it has to offer. The magazine has featured articles of high school students that present students will read about, and other articles that are about the community. Also students who are looking for community service ideas will be interested too. My magazine would be distributed through Facebook and Instagram through ads and tagged photos at community service outings. Also students who are looking for community service ideas will be interested too. My main focus of distribution of my magazine would be through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. When having my magazine on the apps, it will allow for my audience to follow the main account with whatever social media it is on. For subscriptions, there will be a slight payment just to help with fees and startup in the beginning and slow times if the magazine isn’t selling well. By distributing on social media, this will also help branch out globally easier by being shared through the apps such as Facebook and Twitter. Another Distribution factor is through small events like what another well-developed magazine did such as Philanthropy Magazine. By holding our own events, this helps branch out of the local area of Sarasota county. This could lead to a variety of newer viewers, more subscribers, and sponsors. This could also help with financial help.
3. Before I started this project, I had a great knowledge of how to use an everyday IPhone 6 with 8-megapixels.  I had very limited knowledge on how to use a Canon camera, so that's why I stuck with the IPhone 6. My production skills developed throughout this project by getting involved with the editing apps and software like Publisher and Word that I've never used before until this project.  It took a while to get used to using Publisher because of new tools and editing features I have never used before. I've also gotten out of my comfort zone and took pictures of other people that I didn't really know that weren't of me or my friends and family. My creativity skills evolved even more by creating this magazine to whatever colors, designs, and background I wanted to choose. Also, designing a whole cover page and table of contents was a whole new journey with making up articles and activities. This helped show my creativity side and designing skills. Also designing and writing the main article in the magazine and interviewing the two people for the article was also both new and challenging.  Location was also easy once I decided what the topic was going to be, and which environment was going to be the easiest to work with. I did however, have conflict at first between two locations, but decided to go with the one in my article because of location and it was more ideal due to distance and quality. This showed me that I could deal with conflict and pick the right decision on my own.
4. First, I used my schools HP laptop to research different types of magazines and also ones in my category. I continued to do more in depth research on the different designs, techniques, and images used in the magazines I researched.During the project, we had to update our blog throughout the entire project. That was used through Blogger on Google. I never used blogger before until this project and it's very reliable and useful for a project like this. The more I used Blogger, the more I got used to the software, backgrounds, tools, and layouts that helped creating my blog. I integrated technologies such as my Iphone 6 for both photo shoots and used filters on some of the photos to get the best picture quality. The software's that I used in this project was only Publisher. I used this to make my whole magazine The software was easy to use and also fun to mess around with the different tools on the software for the magazine. The hardware I used was my school laptop which is an hp laptop. 

Magazine- Digital Distribution #2

For the Philanthropy magazine, their main source of digital distribution is through events and their website. The magazine says people can join their 'Philanthropy Roundtable' which connects between thought-leaders, practitioners, and donors who are driving reforms and advancing breakthroughs. Some of the things that they are offering in digital media is publications that are clear, missions, and protection of donor intent. The delivering process for the magazine is mostly by joining the Philanthropy magazine and becoming a member or contacting the magazine for delivery options. You have to fill out a member application in order to become one. The event promotions are the magazine podcast and videos, and actual events for the philanthropy magazine that they post on their website. 

                                         

Magazine Distribution- Traditional

On the Magazine Publisher website, it gives a a startup guide on how to distribute and develop your magazine. It first gives 'The Planning Phase' which is the costs associated with publishing, total revenue, and operational costs. Next the website gives sources of revenue that you will need. They say there are 3 main sources driven by revenue which is advertisers, subscriptions, and newsstand sales. For revenue, the person wanting to distribute the magazine needs to ask themselves if the advertisers are willing to pay for the magazine and ads, and if the market is big enough to support the magazine. Then, they talk about understanding the costs like general costs; office selection, staff selection, direct mail lists, newsstand development/distribution list. They also add under costs the failure of magazine publishing due to over staffing, poor magazine focus, poor management, and lack of 'mission'. Finally, 'The Execution' is issuing the first product of your magazine.

Magazine- Digital Distribution #1

For the Community Works Journal Institute, there main digital distribution is through the community and 'spreading the word'. The magazine gets passed around by teachers, students, educational networks in North America and beyond. However, their other main source of distribution would be their website with the magazine archives. Some of the things they're offering in digital media are innovative tools and resources, publications of educators about the community, and they show case many peoples inspiring stories of them helping in the community. The delivering process for the magazine is mainly distributions through people in the community and non community members. their product promotion would have to be subscriptions by going onto their website to do so or by emailing or calling. The subscription is free, you just have to fill out information about yourself like name, organization name, job title, city, state, and country. They also offer the public archives to view for free.