4. How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?
In order to answer this question creatively, I made a prezi with my answers.
PREZI LINK: https://prezi.com/view/YWUelq0WvV0aomZSnxyb/
TEXT:
I believe that the technologies which I have integrated in this project has helped me very much in developing my magazine, BONBON. I consider every software, hardware, and online platform accessed to constitute an important part of this journey, as without them I would have not reached a higher level of skill applied to making my magazine, and my product would have been incomplete - even undoable - without the help of said technologies.
Starting with software, I used PhotoShop, InDesign, LightRoom as well as Illustrator in oder to edit my photos, as well as to arrange and organise each page of the magazine. These applications have given me endless possibilities to improve the aesthetic appeal of my magazine, and to transform my complex ideas into a real-life end product. From LightRoom, I learned how to edit photos in terms of hue, saturation, contrast, highlights & shadows, whites & blacks. In PhotoShop, I learned how to create a product by combining text, photos, and special effects, as well as compositional aspects which lead to a more compelling final product. I have used Illustrator to create patterns and such, moved them to PhotoShop and experimented with overlaying said patterns on my images to create a visually appealing product. Through my use of InDesign, I learned even more about composition, and combining different sized text, as well as different fonts and images to make an attractive page/double spread through contrast and arrangement.
Regarding hardware, I used a Nikon D3300 DSLR, which provided me with professional settings and features. I mostly used it on manual mode, along with the High Key effect in order to obtain a whiter background (in the second and third photoshoot), and the flash was extremely useful to capture the highlights of each model's face, along with the shine of the candy wrapper material in the 3rd photoshoot. I have also used my MacBook in order to edit the photos taken, as well as to store them safely, and to place everything - from text to photos to brush marks and geometric shapes in order to finalise my magazine. My IPhone SE has also been a useful tool, as I used it to communicate with my models about the photoshoots - text them about the location and time of the photoshoot. It has also been useful for talking photos of my flatplans for the magazine, as well as for the planning sketches for the photoshoots.
Finally, while considering internet technology, I made use of a multitude of websites. Tumblr and Pinterest were especially useful for my moodboard (gomoodboard was also of help here), which helped me contour the main theme/vibe I was aiming for. Issuu provided me with an incredible amount of magazines, from which I chose three in order to analyse them and see what features I will interpret and apply to my magazine, BONBON. I have also used Google in order to learn how to create special effects in Illustrator or PhotoShop, as well as to untangle my mistakes when I got stuck or did not know how to do something properly. DaFont has provided me with many choices of fonts for the text I used in my magazine, and PiktoChart has aided me in making a readership profile to better contour my choices of content in order to have more insight on the readers of BONBON. WixSite has also proved to be a really helpful tool in my journey, as it has provided a organised, beautiful space for me to record my work and the process of arriving to the completion of my final product - BONBON.
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