Preparing for my Creative Critical Reflection

By the end of my magazine, I must reflect upon my work by answering questions for a creative critical reflection. Questions that I need to answer are…

- How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

- How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

- How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

- How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware, and online – in this project?

I will begin to prepare for my reflection by figuring out a place where I will make a video to film me answering these questions, who will be asking me the questions, and what my answers to these questions will be. Before making my video, I need to have an idea of how my project relates to the questions then I will film a video that is about 10 minutes long of me answering the questions. I will either type or write my answers to the questions first so I can have and idea in my head of what I will say, and this will prepare me to answer the questions in the video.

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Getting Started

One of the first things our magazine project centered on was creating a publication at the beginning of September. I learned how important a publication is to a magazine and the role it plays. Publications are used as a reference to magazines, saves memories, and documents their history. Some popular examples include People Magazine, Vogue Magazine, and Women’s Health Magazine. After learning about the importance of a publication and reviewing some examples, my partner and I decided that Black Art Magazine would be a great name for our own.

Creating a Practice Spread

Around the end of January, I created a practice spread about myself to help me prepare for my final spread for my magazine. Completing this spread helped me get a sense of putting all of my photos, captions, secondary coverage, and article altogether to create something that looks presentable and is completed. Working on this practice spread helped me experiment with the different ways I could use fonts and colors in my headline, subheadline, and secondary coverage titles. Practice using the three types of spacing (micro, conventional, and macro) came out of making this spread as well. After completing this spread for practice, it helped me realize the things that I need to work on such as having more of a color theme, a better dominant photo, and making sure I can fit my article and captions in their spaces on the spread. Below is a picture of my completed practice spread.

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