Creative Critical Reflection

Question 1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? - Presented through a Podcast

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/itslani26podcast/episodes/2025-04-07T18_09_08-07_00

Question 2:  How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? - Presented through a PowerPoint Presentation with a Voiceover

Question 3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project? - Presented through a Time Lapse of the Production Process with a Voiceover

Question 4: How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware and online — in this project? - Presented through a Q&A style YouTube Video Vlog

Thank you so much for coming along with me on this journey of hardships, growth, and learning <3

Final Brief Submission

 Here it is. The fruit of my labor over these past few months. I hope you guys enjoyed going on this journey with me, and I hope you guys enjoy the end result as much as I do <3

Here is the link to my project in InDesign: 

https://assets.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:aa132707-c894-49f3-b388-37c9fbd01fec?view=published

Here is the link to my project in a Google Drive link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19xMKNBJgBHfRfJMaCpJsAgWyDEW34mH1?usp=sharing

The double spreads don't work with blogger and in Google Drive unless you download it, so I also included the pages separately. Open whichever link brings you the best quality <3

Switching out my replacement pictures for the actual pictures

Since I had taken my pictures so late, I had to use place-holder pictures while I was making all of my pages. So now, I have to replace all my pictures. It shouldn't take too long, but I will have to readjust my text. Of course, I didn't forget to screen record for my CCR. 

I won't reveal what the magazine looks like since that would ruin the surprise, but all I will say is that the pictures fit very well. Tomorrow, I will look over the magazine one last time for any final touches. That way I'll be ready to submit on Wednesday.

Thanks so much for tuning in, catch you later!

Additional pictures

I still needed other related pictures for my content page, so I took advantage of the Canon 90D while I had it and used that to take those pictures as well. I also utilized a light box because my dad owns one for some reason. My dad owns a lot of random photography-related items. 

I needed pictures related to the articles I had, but still something I would have at home, so I decided on doing something based on the articles 

• Upping Your Fit with a Simple Addition: Jewelry
• Blushes that will make you Glow this spring
• Newest Nail Designs for this Season

I also wanted to do something for the article "Men Can Dress Up Too" so I took a picture of one of my male friends in one of their good outfits. For the other articles, I used the light box and some materials I had at home. I used my gold jewelry such as my necklaces and I placed it in a layered format. I also included rings and a bracelet on the sides. For the second article, I used blushes and brushes. Since I don't own that many blushes OR brushes, I did ask my friends to give me their's for the weekend. I used press on nails for the third article, since I own so many sets of press on nails anyways. For each product I had to ensure that I didn't reveal any brand logo or such. Here are how the pictures turned out:

 

This makes it so that I have 12 original pictures. That's way over the minimum! Which means I have succeeded. The next step is to finally put everything together since I have all my content. The majority of the work now will be putting everything together. 

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Taking Pictures

I know taking pictures definitely shouldn't be the last thing I did, but unfortunately I couldn't find any time to go out and actually take pictures. My schedule finally aligned with Addisyn's today, so we went out and took pictures with her as the model. The pictures I took today are going to be the ones for the cover page and the feature article. I need at least 6 original images, and 2 of them are going to be the ones from today, I'll need at least 4 more. Most of these are going to be pictures of beauty products and nails for the content page, but I might need another model just for the content page.

In order to get good quality and professional pictures, I checked out a Canon 90D camera along with a 18-35 lens from our TV Production program, which I am a part of. 

Addisyn picked me up and drove us to the location, since she has her license. We went to a nearby park, and we found a pretty spot next to a lake at around 6:30 PM. We wanted to catch the final rays of the sun on her, so I would get the best natural lighting possible. 

I bought a pack of clip on flowers to put in her hair and I had her pose in front of the lake as the sun hit her face. The pictures actually came out beautiful, and I haven't even edited them yet. Honestly I had a lot of fun shooting and I think she also had fun modeling. Here are some of the pictures we got that I really like:

I'm actually amazed at the lighting and the vibrance of the pictures. I have't even edited them. I was planning on setting aside time to edit, but the raw pictures came out so beautiful that I don't think I'll have a need for editing. 

I think I'm going to used one of the first 6 for the cover page itself, and then the others I might add into the content page. I'm super happy with the success of today. The next step is to obtain my other original images, such as those I will be using in my content page.

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Putting the Cover Page into InDesign

Oh my god. It's finally time to do the LAST PART of this brief. And also probably the easiest part, but I've saved the best for last of course. 

And here it is! I'm finally done with this entire project. And ohhh myy goddd, when I tell you I feel INCREDIBLE! This feels like a HUGE burden lifted off of my back. I hope you guys enjoyed this journey as much as I did, and I'll provide the official link later. 

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Putting the Content Page into InDesign

With 1/3rd of this full brief done, I need to get the second hardest part out of my way. That is, the content page. I think the hardest part about this is going to be actually arranging the entire content page and figuring out how to put the images and text in a cohesive manner. Also, I made sure to screenrecord!! I ended up working on it for nearly 3 hours, and I'm exhausted. But, here it is!

The next and final step is to work on the cover page. I saved this one for last since it's the easiest one by far, and hopefully will be done pretty quick.

Thank so much for tuning in, catch you later!