Uploading My Finished Project

Today, I worked on uploading my finished project to blogger. To upload the magazine to my blog was fairly easy. Canva made it very easy to share my project. All I had to do to share my finished magazine was copy a link from Canva and attach it to my blog. I was unaware of how to attach links with different text names on blogger and had to learn how to do this. This only took me a minute though as blogger makes this process very easy. All I had to do was press link and copy the link into the space for the web address and write what I wanted the link to be called in the other blank space.

Uploading my CCRs was a much more difficult process. I began by trying to upload an online presentation of my Power Points to my blog. This did not work, however, because I had to be presenting the Power Point in order for anyone to view it.  I then tried to upload my Power Points to one drive and add the link created by this. This did not work because for a one drive link you need access to view it, and I could not make the presentation open to everyone. I then researched tutorials on how to upload Power Points to blogger and I found a YoutTube tutorial that explained how. I had to use the website called Scribda and upload my Power Points there. Scribda then provided me with a link that allowed me to embed my Power Point into my blogs. I had to create a separate blog for each CCR to achieve this.

CCR 4

Creative Critical Response 4 by Connor Mckeehan on Scribd

CCR 3

Creative Critical Response 3 by Connor Mckeehan on Scribd

CCR 1

Creative Critical Reflection Question 1 by Connor Mckeehan on Scribd

Finished Project

Magazine

Cover Changes

Today I made many changes to my cover to improve the visual appeal. First, I added a bar code to the bottom right corner of my magazine. I put it here because it was an empty space that needed to be filled. I also added this to make my magazine mimic a realistic magazine. I then looked at the same hip hop magazines my group and I researched earlier in the process and began to make revisions based off of these. One thing I realized that was common of magazines was to separate the article titles on the cover in some way. Typically they were either very far apart from each other on the title, or they were physically separated by a barrier.  On my magazine, I separated my puffs with white lines in between them. I choose this method because it complimented my cover well and was the most visually appealing option.

I also noticed that many magazines used shapes and other elements as text boxes to put their text in. I mimicked this for my slogan by placing the slogan in an octagon on my cover. This was very visually appealing and made the slogan stand out more. I did something similar with this for the title of my magazine. I placed a black box behind the title on my cover and left the font color as red. I did this because it makes the title stand out even more to the reader. The bright red font on the black background really pops and draws all of the readers attention which is the intention.

My Updated Cover

CCR Planning

Today I began to work on My CCRs and plan what I wanted to do for them. I am not confident using too many platforms so I have decided to use primarily PowerPoint to create my CCRs. We are going to do three CCR questions this week and one at a later date. For the three I am going to do this week I am going to create three Power Points for them. For the one i create at a later date I plan on creating a Presi. For the Power Points I plan on creating very detailed answers to the questions in the form of bullet pointed information. I also plan to include several images as visual aid to help my Power Point with clarity and to make sure everything is very easy to understand. I plan on working on my CCRs the next week or so, so I can complete them on time.

I will also continue to review my final project and make any visual changes that might help to make my magazine more visually appealing. I am now completely finished with my magazine and am only working on making minor revisions. For example, I plan on adding a bar code to my cover page to make it more realistic and look more like a real magazine cover page. I am also trying to make other changes to make my overall magazine possibly more visually appealing. So, for this next week I plan on working on my CCRs as well as making final visual changes to my magazine.