AICE Media Studies AS- Monserrate, A

      In my personal experience, working individually seems to be the best option for me. It has been the plan from the start of the semester to work alone because if I work with other people, either friends or classmates, they  will  bring different ideas to the table that I would find different to what I had in mind. Even though it is fun to work in a group with people you know, I do not want to end up relying on them in order to get things done.      Working with a group has its positives; individual members can express their ideas and work on a compromise in order to get the task done. In the article,  The  effects of personality type on tea m performance , they state that  “ Expected benefits of successful teams include increased motivation ,  greater task commitment, higher levels of performance, ability to withstand stress, more innovative solutions, and decreased development time. ”  Group projects tend to be ...

      I found the magazine articles to be pretty interesting to look on a visual standpoint. The different styles and fonts of the lettering really make the magazine covers really compelling and make the reader want to buy the magazine. With big lettering and a variety of different fonts and colors, these magazine covers want the reader to read their magazine fully, but some people, mostly young adults and teens, read magazines and may have a low attention span because of the lengthy articles in the magazines. Magazines like Rolling Stone used to have long and wordy articles because  "Back when Rolling Stone was publishing these seven-thousand-word stories, there was no CNN, no Internet" (Scherer, 2002). But recently, they have accomodated the way they write articles by reducing the word count and highlight the most important details so that it is quick and easy to read in order to appeal to a younger audience, which is why visuals play a big part in magazines. ...

      Both programs, InDesign and  PremierPro , took a long time to figure out how to use them properly, especially with  PremierPro  because of the way we have to upload our videos from our phones to the program, but with InDesign, the process was much easier. Even though InDesign was much easier to figure out,  PremierPro  is the video editor and if I get enough practice on the program, I can hopefully tell the story I want to tell.        I am a person that is fascinated by visual things and both movies and magazines definitely have that to offer, especially since magazines are becoming more visually interesting to the general public. According to magazine editor Lee Gutkind in an interview created by Joey Franklin, "Our recent redesign, which incorporates color and illustrations into the magazine, is certainly intended to make it more reader friendly." While the idea is very beneficial in order to attract a bigger audience,...