Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Monday, 15 April 2013
Feedback Media Magazine - Joe
*Changed the background Joe added he liked the background a lighter colour as it doesn't look too full on and tacky and applies to both men and women as it is a neutral colour. I also added an 'iphone 5 giveaway' poster in the contents which Joe said, made the magazine more realistic and make people want to buy the magazine even more if there is a chance to win modern technology
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
At the beginning of the year we began by completing our preliminary task in which we had to create a magazine for our school which included a front page and contents page. There is a very clear difference in the two magazines and it shows how my skills have developed over the time period on which I have applied to my magazine.
The first thing we had to do was take some photos. Unlike my actual magazine, I did not plan a photo shoot and simply did it in my study period around the school. The models dressed in normal clothes so it did not attract a specific audience in any way. In total we took about 40 photos, 10 of which I was able to use. This was completely different to when I did the photo shoot for my magazine. It was planned and booked; I drew up sketches of the pages so I knew what photos to take. I took careful consideration of my audience whilst deciding outfits, props, hair and makeup. Also, in total I took about 200 photos for my real magazine so I had plenty to choose. This allowed me to be more adventurous with my pages and images as I had a wider range of photos to choose from.
I created the school magazine on PowerPoint and the music magazine on InDesign. InDesign was new to me but was very easy to grasp the concept; it allowed us to create more effective/realistic looking pages especially for our double page spreads as it is far easier to text wrap and add images and also allowed guidelines for me to follow and layout where I wanted things to go. Although Photoshop works to create magazines, InDesign is a more technical programme used by professionals which increased my skills using media software.
Whilst creating my school magazine I used PowerPoint image tools to edit my photos and didn’t really experiment with anything new therefore making it to look very basic. All of the text was in the same font and I only used blue and light green and dark green (school colours) for the whole magazine which, because of the photo, was hard to read. Again, comparing this to my final magazine is a big difference. I carefully chose all of the colours and they were all chosen to fit with the style and the audience of the magazine so they look very effective I kept the same colour scheme so it was simple but professional.
Creating my music magazine has also improved my knowledge and skills of editing photos including cutting out the background and adding tints etc to get a better overall image and gradient colour schemes. On Photoshop I have been able to use airbrushing tools which I didn’t on my school magazine; these gave the images a better look and appeal more to my audience. I’ve also been able to change the brightness/contrast to the photo.
There is no real structure or layout to my school magazine and everything seems to have been just placed there for no actual reason. The comparison between just the two contents pages (school-single page/ music double page) portrays the overall magazine; the music magazine contains a lot more content and looks very realistic in comparison to the school magazine which has 12 stories and doesn’t look as attractive. My music magazine contents have been split into boxes which give everything a place and look much organised. My school magazine is the complete opposite.
Overall, my skills have developed throughout making the magazine as I experimented much more with different styles and effects of both the photos and the magazines appearance as a whole.
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