evaluation

Evaluation

My research into digital publishing helped me in many areas and helped me to improve my work. Due to the research I conducted I decided to write an informal and formal style work. This is because in the articles I researched I found that they don’t make the article completely formal because this may look too boring and at the same time they don’t make it completely informal as this may look childish and unprofessional. So I decided to make parts of my article formal and others informal. In the articles I researched I found that the text would be separated depending on the topic and I decided this would be a good layout for my article and I separated the article depending on the movie. In my research I also found that the use of images is very popular as it makes the article look more attractive to a reader and they are more likely to pick an article with images over one without. I then made the choice to add a lot of images representing a certain paragraph or section.

I used a lot of feedback to improve my work. A teacher feedback i considered was that writing one article on Marvel and the other on DC would be complicated and I would either have to write a biased article or write two article on two different Marvel products instead. I decided that this advice would be useful and changed my initial idea. Another piece of feedback by a peer who said I should add interviews in my article. At first I thought that it was a good idea however when I started interviewing people I found that the feedbacks were similar and uninspired so I decided to add a comments option at the bottom of the page so people can tell me their opinion instead.

I followed most of the thing I planned in pre-production. The pre-production helped me stay on task and organise when I would do what tasks and when I should finish the tasks. I tried my best to stay within the time limit I had set myself but I did go over the time limit however I did manage to complete everything on time. In the pre-production I also planned what I would need for my work however this was complicated because some of the material I needed were not available and this meant that I would have to compromise for some of my work.

In Photoshop I used a lot of the plaster tool which is used to clear and bruises, cuts and spots. This was a very helpful tool as it made my work look clearer and cleaner. I also used the crop tool as some of my images had some things in the background that I didn’t want in the picture. I also used the crop tool to make some images smaller because they took up too much space on by website. I experimented with the magic wand tool. This tool is used to remove some areas and does it automatically rather than having you select bit by bit. I thought of using this tool because I could use it to remove the background in my image.

After I took my images I needed to take them off the camera then save it onto a file on my computer because the camera was borrowed and if I left it on the camera then someone may delete it and I will not be able to use them again. I also backed it up by saving it on my memory stick as well. When I wrote up my article I saved them as a word file as this was the best program for a written article. All the hand written notes I did were kept in a file just for journalism because this would prevent it from getting lost or being mixed with other coursework.