AICE Media Studies AS- Duggan, W

       Regarding the feedback I received from my peers, I found it to be very helpful. I was aware from the start that it would need some heavy editing, but I was unsure as to what to do for most of it.  My cover was the one thing I knew how to fix, as the main issues was the lighting, which my peers did take note of. For my content page, one of my minor issues was the inclusion of  the number symbol as opposed to the word page or a relevant abbreviation. I was also unsure how to fill up the content page, but as a result of the feedback I receive d, I now intend to alter the background color of the page, I am not sure as to what color yet, and to include more photos of dogs, as well as including images of pawprints throughout my whole article, to connect them together . This was especially helpful for me, as I was aware my content page was bland, an error that I will now be able to correct. My feature article  was considered to be  good, but I w...

       A t this point, I have the magazine completed. While I am not especially happy with the cover, I tried a few other versions, none of which looked very good in my opinion. I received some final feedback from  another peer, who said that my magazine seemed fine as is. I did make a few final edits to my feature article  though. While the images still bothered me, I did not take any other photos that I felt were particularly  better and  adding anything else felt like it was too much , more of an attempt to fill space than include any reference images. I did make edits to the text itself though, rewording a few things before deciding it was complete.  While still bothered by my product, I will fix it at a later date, removing the items that were bad and improving the ones that were good.

   While not the most pleasing in my opinion, this is the first draft I have come up with for my magazine. I believe that there are good ideas present within here, and that with the help of my peer's feedback, I will be able to refine these ideas into something more pleasing. But as it stands, this is my first draft of my magazine.

       As of now, I have managed to finish of my table of contents. It didn’t look the  best, but  given that my phone was having issues when I decided I wanted to use a photo for this page, I managed to find an i mage of a dog that a friend and I created in illustrator a while back. In addition to this, I managed to get one person to review what I have done so far. He correct ed me on a few of my mistakes which I then fixed, as well as helping me to realize some of my typography needed changing, specifically, the headings I had. With that feedback in mind, I changed up the font and size of some of what  I had done and completed the table of contents, which I realized would look slightly better if the page numbers had a distinct color to emphasize where to find them.  I am still unhappy with how my magazine has turned out thus far, but I will redo it if I find out how to fix it, which I certainly intend to, in large part with more peer feedback ...

       I have imported some of my images into InDesign , as well as the feature article itself. While I attempted to trim more of it, I did not end up feeling comfortable with what was left, so it ended up remaining around three and a half pages.  I did manage to find some lines that I could remove, condense, or combine together, so with that in mind I managed to cut it down to three pages.  In addition to this, I  ended up having to take new photos, as the older ones did not really suit the article very well. The newer ones were still not of the best quality, but given my camera quality, despite being new er, was still not as good as I believed it would be, I had to make do with some lower quality images. I know that there are some issues with the images, but once I get a proper peer review, I will have a more concrete idea as to what those issues are, and therefore be able to fix them. At this point, the only item I have left is th e table of conte...

       For this day, I managed to get another interview with someone, Jack Dowd. I tried to get in touch with a dog behaviorist, but I got no response back. At this point, I’m  fairly certain  I will end up with just the  two student interviews. I also rewrote a fair chunk of my feature article. I did not like the way I had worded it previously, and while I am still not a big fan, it is better than what I had before.  With this in mind, I  did end up making the article sound more casual than I would have liked, but  by trying to make it sound more professional, the article ended up feeling boring, so I had to make it slightly more personal . I also had four pages initially, but I am concerned that is a bit too much for the article, I have trimmed it down to three and one half pages, keeping what I found to be the most important and relevant information in the article.  In regards to  the interviews, the one with Thomas was mo...

     At this point, I have started to work on my feature article. For this, as has been mentioned in previous posts, I intend to write about dog behavioral problems, specifically, how to prevent dogs from escaping. The work I have completed as of now consists of primarily gathering my research for this problem, research that shows how dog behaviorists suggest fixing this issue, why dogs run away at all, and how to prevent them from running away in the first place. Some of the research appeared contradictory, so I had to spend time on figuring out what was true, and what wasn't. This task, while not completely easy, was not very difficult, as there did seem to be a general consensus on what was effective. I then started to write the actual article down, and although I did not get very far in, I do know how I intend to incorporate my research and interview into the feature article, as I have determined how I want to format the article.