Over the last couple of weeks in media studies I have looked at a lot of sample and past blogs from other years to improve my own writing about media. I also believe viewing these has helped me to shape my blog as a whole and it now allows me to see how others do it and how I could improve mine. In the first two lessons of media we looked at examplesof blogs which were created by last year’s media students to see how they did it and what they did well. As a class we discussed the positives and negatives of each piece and how we could improve each piece and this then helped me to do my preliminary task as I could improve my task just like the example. I like discussing things in class because it makes me understand what we are doing and then that helps me progress in what I am doing.I liked seeing others preliminary tasks because it helped me to create my own with ease. In the second part of our first double lesson Ms Baker gave us a camera and sent us off in groups to take some of our own pictures for our first task in media which was to get pictures of the school and make a school mag to get a feel of what it is like to be media students. In our group we took a range of pictures so we had a wider selection to choose from when it came to actually doing the task.These included all kinds of different picturessuch as; the school canteen, the school car park, corridors, classrooms, the sixth form common room and the tennis courts. There was no specific picture we had to take but I liked that freedom because it let me do anything I wanted. After we did that we checked through all of the pictures to make sure that we could use them for are magazines. I got the pictures I wanted to make my mag the best it could have been.We sat down at are desks and started to draw our magazines to get an idea of how we could lay them out when it came to making it on the computer. We also used Magazines as examples because they all have good different layouts that could give me inspiration and a kind of guideline to stick to. After that we drew the layout of the home and contents page,and then before I went on the computer I outlined my sketch with a fine liner so it would come up on the scanner. We then went to the computers and used a programme called Adobe InDesign to make the actual thing. This is good and useful software which is easy to use and is great for making magazines in general so I am glad I got to use it. Finally I began to create my magazine and make it look how I wanted it to. The finish product was good and I was overall pleased.
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