Evaluation Question 3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

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Hello. My name is Kelly Lopez, and I will be answering compulsory question 3. The question is “How did your production skills develop throughout this project?” Personally, when this class began, I had no previous experience with photography or editing or design. Through the preliminary tasks, I was able to get a better idea of each step that will later on be essential to creating my magazine. I was able to know the sections that I was struggling the most with and that was the design layout. I struggled to create the layout because I was just overwhelmed with the endless possibilities to choose from, so over time, I learned to experiment with every feature that I liked and to see how the final product looked after I tried to experiment with it. And I tried to see how it would look and position wherever I was just thinking of. I - I learned about the importance of positioning different conventions throughout pages in order to enhance every feature of the magazine correctly. So, for example, for my cover page I contrasted the background with the font colors of my masthead and the - the colors of my captions. They are - there was a color scheme throughout my magazine, so I also learned more about editing and what the saturation of my pictures was and the difference that changing the contrast would mean. And in addition, I also saw during the photo shoot with my model - I learned more about the different angles - sorry - about the different angles of photography and the types of messages that just a slightly different angle can portray to the audience. I learned to explore my camera settings more, so I learned how to focus better. And - I - since I used my iPhone camera, I saw the difference between the normal mode and the portrait mode and how much more professional it could look with portrait mode. I also had to learn how to work with the natural lighting outside and how to work with it to my benefit in order to capture the best pictures possible and achieve my goal.

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