Evaluation Question

I developed the normal forms of a local newspaper by creating my adverts, although this is the most creative area of a newspaper, i feel that i was a lot more creative with my adverts than a normal newspaper due to the amount of colour and range of fonts i use, this has more of an magazine feel , i think this works well because it brights the page up in hope to attract a larger audience    
How effective is the combination of your media product and ancillary tasks ? 

For my media production i created a local newspaper for portishead, the ancillary tasks that i created along with this newspaper was a poster and a radio advert. 
The poster i created advertises the unique selling point of my newspaper, which is the idea that this issue of the portishead press will provide their readers with the opportunity to get a new job. 

I kept the poster the same as my newspaper because it enables the reader to identify that the poster is supporting the portishead press not any newspaper. I tried to achieve this by keeping some similar elements from my newspaper such as the same font that i used on my front page which is distinctive because i edited the font   ,and the same image from my newspaper advert because my audience is age between 35-45. These help the reader to identify that it is the portishead press that is providing their readers with job opportunities.   

My radio advert supports my newspaper because it provides the audience  


How did you use media technologies in the construction, research,planning and evaluation stages? 

I used media technology through out the whole process of creating my newspaper, while in the research and planning stage i used blogger to record all my research so when in my planning stage i could go back and see the normal conventions of a local newspaper. 
Also while in my planning stage i used the software 'micro soft publisher ' which is similar to indesign to create a page layout and discover wether all my elements would fit in to the space available. I was able to do this by creating boxes and placing them in the poisoned that i wished, then rearranging them. 

While in the construction stage i used indesign to create my newspaper, this is a professional software that enabled me to be able to have different layers on my newspaper, which means it was easy for me to   move items of my newspaper around the page to find a style that i thought would match my audience.  While constructing in indesign i came across an issue of my text going over an image therefore to prevent this issue i decided to go on a challenge of text wrapping my story around the image. I had never done this before, so i had to use the web searcher of google to get a tutorial on youtube that described me how to do this on indesign, therefore i followed their instructions. 
So for this i had to create a new layer and place my image on this, then i had to create a new layer and place my article on this layer. After positioning my layers i then had to create a new layer and draw a shape around the text, then send the layer to the back and merge the layers together. This then wraps the text around the image so non of the text or image cover each other.

In the construction stage of my poster i recyled the image  from my newspaper however to be creative with the image i decided to add a fade out effect to the image. I was able to do this by creating a new layer and placing the image on this layer, i then had to create a new layer and place a square on top of my image, then swap the layers so the image is on the top. I then had to use the gradtent tool , when selecting the square layer and mark out were i wish the image to start to fade or to be clear, then by merging the two layer together i was able to fade the image out.

The other ancillary task i carried out was radio advert which i constructed in garge band, to get my sound effects i had to go on a free download  website, import these to itunes then import these into garge band, then to get my voives i simply added a new layer and talked into the micro phone then edited them. 

In my evaluation i have used the media technology of imove that has enable me to be able to audio film myself then place images of real local newspapers or screen shots of my local newspaper over the image of me speaking.