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Post #54 CCR #4

 Evaluation:Question 4: How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware, and online-in this project? Video:  https://youtu.be/zXKvC8ndW6I Transcript:  Throughout the whole process of this course while creating a magazine I relied on technology. I used a combination of a blogging website and software to help create a magazine.  Technology was a critical part of creating a magazine because without it expressing my ideas and creativity would be little to impossible. Hardware part of the project I would mainly use a laptop which has better accessibility for all around performance. When I was on the go and a idea would pop up in my head my phone is my second option its portability will allow constant editing on the go without missing a beat. The Phone also allowed me take photos that would be later used to capture images for my project.  Software part of the project I used Photoshop to edit certain parts of the image. I would make any spot of the image which wa...

Post #53 CCR #3

 Evaluation: Question 3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project? Video:  https://youtu.be/Kll4rbdaCLY Transcript: Hello welcome back my name is Montrell Brown candidate number 0304 At the very beginning of this experience at will say my skills in editing and production of blogs was modest. Over time in this course designing a magazine would help developing my production skills required to create a authentic magazine. I was able to improve on these skills by using varies tools that would put my creativity to test .  The preliminary task were a useful part of expending my knowledge of developing a magazine which included processes and different aspects that will further illustrate this including camera shots and angles. Looking back from all the works I did Il would say that it was a slight improvement in this department. I struggled with putting photos together that would appeal to any audience but constant work on the project proves to be usef...

Post #52 CCR #2

 Evaluation: Question 2: How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? Video:  https://youtu.be/azeU3AAbf3U Transcript:  Hello and welcome my name is Montrell Brown and I will be answering compulsory question number 2 for my media studies portfolio. Compulsory simply asks “How does you product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text." The target audience for my magazine is for young teens and adult ages ranging from 13-25. The reason for this age range is because the overall entertaining part of the magazine fits more for the youth than mature audiences. Older audience still can enjoy the magazine if they still have some childhood in them. The content provided in the magazine appeals to both genders but mainly males as it easier to relate to as it often apart of most of people childhood's. I entertained my audience by giving an exclusive interview of a potential NBA which most peop...

Post #51 CCR #1

 Evaluation: Question 1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? Video:  https://youtu.be/rzECy43fSuQ Transcript: Hello my name is Montrell Brown My centre number is US154. Today I will be answering the following complustory questions about my magazine. This is a AS AICE media course My magazine follows a traditional creation of a magazine which includes the following a Masthead, Tagline, Cover lines, Barcode, and Main image. In order to gain any ideas and inspiration I looked through varies of magazine like Slam and illustrated sports. Going with the inspection of the first page you will noticed that the word LIMITLESS which is the masthead will cover most of the upper page of the magazine. The second thing you'll notice is that the main image/model is covering most if not all of the magazine. My magazine consist of coverline to other stories it is put in a place to alert to topics and their pages without disturbin...

Post #50 Final Magazine

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 Hello today I will be showing you my final production of my magazine

Post #49 Final Production of Double Page Spread

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 Hello today I will be showing you the final production of my Double Page Spread

Post #48 Draft Double page Spread 2

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 Hello today I will be showing you the second part development of Double page spread

Post #47 Draft of Double Page Spread 1

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 Hello today I will be showing you the development of my double page spread

Post #46 Final Production Of Cover Page

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 Hello today I will be showing you the final production of my cover page

Post #45 Final Production of Table of Contents

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 Hello today I will showing you the final production of my Table of Contents

Post # 44 Draft of Table of Contents 2

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 Hello I will be showing you the second part of the development of my Table of Contents

Post #43 Draft of Table of Contents 1

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 Hello and today I will be showing you the development of my table of contents

Post #42 Draft of Cover Page 1

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 Hello today I will be showing you progress of development of my a cover page

Post #41 Double Page Spread Layout

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 Hello Today I will be showing you my Double-Page spread layout

Post #40 Table of Contents Layout

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 Hello today I will be showing you my Table of Contents Layout

Post #39 Cover Page Layout

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 Hello today I will be showing you my layout for the magazine cover

Post # 38 Photos Taken

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 Hello Today In this blog post I will be showing the photos taken for the production of the magazine

Post #37 Draft Feature Story

 Hello and Today I will be going over progress of my feature story for my magazine Mikaili Taylor a beast on the court and off allowing him to enjoy a peaceful life. When asked what his greatest achievement was his response was "Balancing school and basketball at the same time" this also comes with no surprise as he was able to help his team in one of the games to get a 40 point lead. The only thing that is holding him back from succeeding sooner was time and location as he stated " I could of been in the NBA if I was maybe born a little early and went to a school that pro. This in turn pushes him to be great as he works on his craft on the weekends working out to the ends of the day as it goes first one in the gym and the last one out. The only things motivating Mikaili is music, sleep, and relaxing. His dream is not that far away as when he reaches college he will show off his skills to potential scouts that can help him elevate his career. Once he reaches the highest ...

Post #36 Interview Answers

 1. Who are you? Mikaili Taylor 2. What is your greatest achievement? Being able to balance work inside school and fun outside of school 3. What motives you? Music, Sleep, Relaxing 4. Where are you going? I'm going to college to further my basketball career 5. How will you get there? With so many opportunities to succeed basketball is first and education is backup   6. What are your plans once you get there? Play as hard as possible for scouts to realize my talent 7. Where are you from? Born in Fl   8. Who is involved in your dream? Everyone that help me throughout the way especially my mom 9. What is your dream? Playing professional ball in the NBA while getting rich to support my family 10.What is your interest? Hanging out with friends and playing video games on my off time   11. What are the things you do to distract yourself? I would listen to music, sleep or workout to distract myself 12. When do you think you'll reach your dream? When I turn 19 which scou...

Post #35 Questions for Feature Story

 Hello today I will be going over my feature story questions  1. Who are you? 2. What is your greatest achievement? 3. What motives you? 4. Where are you going? 5. How will you get there? 6. What are your plans once you get there? 7. Where are you from? 8. Who is involved in your dream? 9. What is your dream? 10.What is your interest?  11. What are the things you do to distract yourself? 12. When do you think you'll reach your dream? 13. What are the mental/physical blockers from your dreams?  14. Who is in your life? 15. What do you consider that you are successful? 16. Why do you consider that to be successful? 17. What challenges did you face during your life? 18. How far away are you from your dreams? 19. What part of the dream is your favorite? 20. What is your most prize possession? 21. What college are you trying major at? 22. What do you try to help alleviate any problems in your life? 23. What's basketball was your dream? 24. Do you want to go pro in ba...