AICE Media Studies AS- Mulhollen, L

 For my magazine, since I am writing about a place I have already visited, I am further ahead than the rest of my classmates. I have a photo album with 200 pictures I will go through to pull and import into InDesign for my magazine. I previously posted my cover photo in the last blog post I made, but I have other photos of the animals and plants at La Paz. I also downloaded InDesign for my personal laptop.  I believe I will interview my friend who attended the trip with me for the interview. She is an avid hiker, and she has lots of access to materials such as a personal travel blog she keeps. She also is a strong advocate for ecotourism because he loves being in nature. I also have the contact for the man who arranged the trip for us, so I could talk to him about it as well.  However, I decided to include an interview piece, but I believe it will be shorter. I plan on discussing the waterfall trails, the cloud garden, several animal exhibits like the sloths, jaguars, but...

 I have downloaded InDesign on my laptop to begin my project. I happened to insert the tabloid format, then I inserted my waterfall cover photo, but I found that it had been in a lower resolution than I had hoped for. I attempted to fix the problem, but I did not see the file insert button. I struggled so I watched a tutorial. I went through the photos I took and chose the highest quality ones for my project. I want a waterfall photo for my feature article since it is fitting as it is La Paz waterfall gardens. I want a picture of a jungle cat so I chose an ocelot photo because it was high quality and showed the viewer how close they can get to the cats. I did not have the best quality photo of a jaguar, so I decided to incorporate the photo on my table of the content page. I decided to use a path photo, as it seems inviting. I want my readers to feel welcome and invited to visit here. I also decided to include a Toucan photo, since they are in the aviary and I will have a segment o...

          With the task of storyboarding, I felt the hardest decision was choosing which place I visited in Costa Rica I would focus on; the Arenal Hanging Bridges or La Paz Waterfall Gardens. In the end, I decided to go with La Paz Waterfall Gardens because of their wide range of activities for people to do, so the feature article can be diverse and interesting to read. I decided to include the Arenal hanging bridges within my table of contents though, and I might include a picture I took on the bridges in the content page as well. When going through this process of storyboarding, I felt that the article on filmmaking storyboarding was correct in the fact that I developed my creative and critical thinking skills (O'Brien, 2005). I found myself picturing my goals in my head, then processing them out and planning them on paper. I began to imagine what steps I will take first in the creation of my magazine. The thoughts of what design aspects I want to use helped ...