week 12

While i had my time off college due to holidays, i went about setting up my final photo shoot in order to get the images i was going to use in my final piece. this meant organising a time and place with my model and studios. I then decided to save time and money we could use a white wall as a background so that i could use different colours and textures once i went onto Photoshop.

week 11

This week i aimed on doing some flat plans and looking at and doing some rationals in order to get a better idea of how my magazine will look and what style i would be going with. I also looked more into my target audience and set up some surveys so that i my magazine idea could start to form more and i could start setting up photo shoot planning. I also looked t some double page articles and even started to write my own and aimed to get this finished by the end of the week.

Font research

i looked at a few fonts that i thought would work well and then put them against my background and tried it with other photos and then picked what worked best. i then used these fonts with a picture and some backgrounds to see what works and what doesn't and so far i am happy with my front cover but i know i still have a long way to go. However after looking at different colour schemes, pictures i could possibly use and also names for my magazine i realised i would be using a different font then these and a different name as these would work better and all round look more professional. A font can make a magazine stand out from the rest and this can either attract or put off a reader as if a font really catches the eye and jumps out to the audience then this can draw them in. So picking a font was a big part and process of creating a professional, effective magazine and I knew that i would keep changing the font throughout the process in order to gain and create the best possible magazine.

week 10

This week i finished off practising on Photoshop by finishing a quick magazine trail, i then continued to get it peered assessed and marked by another student, while i marked theirs in order to see what conventions i am missing out and what i can improve on, as well as what i did well.   

Using photoshop

This was a practice magazine that i have created in order to use photoshop so that  i could improve my photoshop skills, as well as use new tools and try new techniques to see what worked and what didnt work.