Magazine Reflection

I did not learn several new ideas or topics during this project. A large majority of the work I accomplished relied on prior knowledge rather than newly acquired skills and understanding. My submissions to the magazine were revised versions of previous assignments that required only sentence restructure and layout redesign.

I learned two new aspects of sentence structure. 1) I learned to place the subject noun and the verb at the beginning of the sentence. 2) The reader may not be able to form a visual image depicted in the sentence if the descriptive details of that sentence are not placed in a logical order. These revisions to sentence structure transformed the overall flow of my pieces of writing so that the topic of the sentence was established immediately at the beginning.

I spent a large portion of my time revising the layouts of my photo essay and my editorial. I learned how to make a spread visually appealing by constantly resized images, allowing images to bleed off pages and rearranged the writing into different positions on the pages. If the layout of my spreads did not appear eye-catching than the reader has less temptation to read my section of the magazine.