The student found their research into digital publishing and websites helpful for developing their writing style, layout, content, and addressing their audience. Peer and teacher feedback on their initial ideas helped them refine their topic from football to fashion. The pre-production portfolio organized their time, models, and resources effectively. The student felt proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and photography from prior experience and practice. They stored all written work electronically on their computer and USB drives, naming files appropriately and backing up work to ensure nothing was lost.

1. Task 5
BY TYRONE SIBANDA

2. How useful was your research into publishing, and real
digitally published products? Did this help you with written
style, layout, content, mode of address?
The research that I done into digital publishing was really
useful as I felt as if it helped me out and it was basically
adding to what I already knew and what I did not know so
that really helped me.
The reason why all of these tasks were given to us was
because it was going to help us with doing the tasks that
were set, if we were stuck on one task, we could use our
knowledge of the things that we were learning before use
that.
It can also give us a better understanding of how some
magazines work, with time management, updates etc.
Looking at these different websites gave me ideas of how I
would have my website set out and what the layout is going
to look like as I managed to pick at least 2 things from each
website to possibly use in making my website/ magazine.
Most of the mode of addresses from all the different
websites really helped me because I know how to present
my blog to the audience as I am going to break it down into
sections so that it will not be confusing for them.

3. Evaluate the process of originating, pitching and amending
your ideas. Did peer feedback help? Teacher feedback?
Which changes did you make?
At the start of this whole process I had two ideas, football and
fashion but in the end I decided to choose fashion as I felt that a
lot of people were doing the magazine chose to do football so I
did not want to added to the list so I want to do something that
was new to me but I knew quite a few things so I really knew
what I was talking about. To start off we had to do a pitch just to
plan what we had to do, so we had to a slideshow presentation,
visual presentation and a recorded presentation. I got good
feedback on my mind map and mood board as my fellow peers
thought my ideas were very mind blowing. My mood board had a
combination with things to do with football and things to do
fashion but as I said in the beginning I left out football as I felt
too many people were doing that topic so I wanted to try out
something new. I got feedback from my teacher and it was that I
needed at least two ideas to talk about in my one topic so I
decided to expand it and talk about fashion in London is growing
rapidly.

4. Evaluate the pre-production portfolio- did that
help you organise time, models, resources?
 The pre-production portfolio did really help me as it was put
into sections which broke down all the things we need to do in
tasks which I thought was very organised as it just made it
more clear and less confusing for us. It also helped me
organise my time very efficiently as I just did everything from
order so what ever was first in the task I started of with that and
finished off with the last remaining task. I did it that way to
ensure that I don’t get confused or miss a task. The models
that I needed were already with me most of time so that
weren’t a problem really as we had plenty of time to shoot
what ever I wanted as long as; the weather was good, we had
a football and the model was wearing sports clothes. So that
was totally fine as I took the photos on time like I wanted which
was another positive rather negative. The resources that I
needed were either bought of I had from before as I had
everything in mind and knew what I was going to take pictures
of.

5. . Evaluate your skills in image manipulation (Photoshop),
photography, graphic design (Illustrator) and Desk Top
Publishing (InDesign). Use technical language and draw on
examples from your work
I thought that I done well with the different
software's even though it was not the first
time I had use them . However, I have used
Photoshop throughout the year for my work,
and InDesign which I have been using and I
have taken in many skills, I have learnt how
to edit and improve the quality of images
and how to make them more unique and
interesting. I have learnt how make a grid
and structure it in InDesign and also how to
add writing. Here is examples of work that I
did using these software's: • Photo- shop
InDesign

6. How well did you store your written material? For example did
you take hand-written notes / electronic; name it
appropriately using various formats; back up your work;
upload; reference sources / check for copyright •
 Because I knew this was going to be a long and hard unit, at first I made a
folder named Journalism 2 where I would put all my work in so that it doesn’t
get lost and so that I can find it easily. I did all of my work on the computer
rather than hand written as that way I wouldn’t have lost any work as it is more
safe for it to be all stored on the computer. I backed up all my work. So what I
did was when doing the actual work in college I save it all on to my USB and
then on to the schools system on my account (making another folder), then
after what I did was I saved all the work again on my laptop at home so that if
I was to lose to my USB, I would have a back up version of my work.

7. How well did you store your written material? For example did
you take hand-written notes / electronic; name it
appropriately using various formats; back up your work;
upload; reference sources / check for copyright •
 Because I knew this was going to be a long and hard unit, at first I made a
folder named Journalism 2 where I would put all my work in so that it doesn’t
get lost and so that I can find it easily. I did all of my work on the computer
rather than hand written as that way I wouldn’t have lost any work as it is more
safe for it to be all stored on the computer. I backed up all my work. So what I
did was when doing the actual work in college I save it all on to my USB and
then on to the schools system on my account (making another folder), then
after what I did was I saved all the work again on my laptop at home so that if
I was to lose to my USB, I would have a back up version of my work.