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Contact sheet
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Friday, 11 March 2016
Production schedule
Production schedule
Week 1 – In week 1, I was looking at existing products and doing bits of research about the genre of magazine I was going to be creating.
Week 2 – Drafts
for my media magazine were made, whilst looking at existing products still.
Week 3 – Photos
hoot organised for my front cover image, and construction of my front cover was
done.
Week 4 – Preparing
my contents page and double page spread, end of week photo shoot for these was
done.
Week 5 – Making
of the contents page, adding in additional images that I had taken for separate
parts of it. Also another little photo shoot for contents page, as another
image was needed.
Week 6 – Making
of double page spread with the images that I had taken.
Week 7
& 8 – Finalizing my 3 products.
Props, Location and Costume
Props, Location and Costume
Location
The location for my photo shoot, was the studio room. I
decided to use the studio room as it was easily accessible in college, and it
was a plain back ground which I wanted to have on my magazine. I wanted to have
a plain background because, on existing products that I was looking at, they
had plain backgrounds and I liked how it looked so I wanted to copy this and
have it on my magazine. All of my images were taken in the studio, my main
cover image, my contents page main image and my double page spread image. I had
my model positioned in a way that represented the target audience I was aiming
my magazine at, as I wanted the model to be in a stance that the target
audience can relate to. If I had my model positioned in a way that didn’t
represent the target audience, then it would not be associated with them as
much.
Costume
I had my model dress in the stereotypical ‘gangster’ ‘chav’
way, with the Nike grey hoodie. The grey Nike hoodie is a typical thing that
you would associate with my target audience, as all brands such as Nike and
Adidas are the sorts of brands that my target audience wear. I wanted him to
dress in this way as I know that the target audience will want to read on as my
main cover image has the same dress sense as what they do so it will make them
have a connection of clothing brands. For my contents page I had my model
dressed in jeans and a black top with a black jacket, I used these dark colours
of clothing so that it would create a sense of darkness, also the lighting in
the studio room for this photo shoot was changed as I adapted the lights so
that they would have a darker effect on my model, creating a sense of power.
Props
The props that I used for my magazine, is everything that my
model is wearing. The clothes that my model is wearing are the only props that I
have used, I haven’t used anything in the background as I wanted to use the
plain background from my photoshoot. I didn’t decide to use any props in the
background for my magazine, as I wanted the background to be plain, because it
was how other magazines of my genre have there’s and I wanted to follow that
convention.
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Technologies
Evaluation: Technologies
Photoshop
I used photo shop to actually make my whole magazine and it was a very good piece of software to
use. Within photo shop, I used several tools to make my magazine how I wanted it to look. I used
the crop tool on my images, to crop them to the size I wanted them to be and make them fit to the
page as I wanted. Another tool that I used, was the brightness and contrast tool for my images, I
used this to add an effect to them, so that they would look better on the page, as I gathered good
images, and then I need to make them fit into the page appropriately with the brightness and
contrast levels. For example, if I collected a dull image, I would lift the brightness levels to
ensure that the details in this image are highly visible and noticeable. These are just some of the
tools on photo shop that I used whilst making my magazine.
Text
I used text a lot for my magazine, as obviously text was something that magazine had to have on it
to make it successful. I used a variety of texts, sizes and variations to make my magazine. I used
different variations to give my audience something else to look at, so they wouldn’t get bored of
looking at the same font styles throughout the magazine. Different fonts can represent different
target audiences, I managed to find fonts that I thought would be associated with the target
audience I was aiming my magazine at. Also the amount of text you have on the front cover is a key
point to be aware, if you have too much writing your target audience may get bored of reading it,
so they may want little bits of writing they can read quickly and still give them good information.
Image
The images that I took for my media magazine are all taken by a camera borrowed from the college. I took them making sure that my target audience was represented by the model. The clothing of the model was very important, as clothing was one of the most important things to attract and represent the target audience, especially with the clothing brands they wear. The way I had my model positioned was key as well, because for the magazine that I was making, the models are
usually standing in a stance where they are looking fierce, not in a friendly way. If my models
were standing in a friendly way, then it would not be suited for my magazine genre, it would not be
a good representation of the genre.
Rulers
I used rulers on photo shop, to make sure that everything was aligned. I done this to make my
magazine look as professional as possible. By having rulers for my magazine, it made it a lot
easier for me to make sure that everything was in the correct position and the correct size. Using
rulers made everything a lot easier for me so that I wouldn’t have to guess where things were or
how each of them aligned with each other, the use of rules made me be able to put them in a place
and if necessary move them to make sure that they were in the same alignment as the other set of
text.
Photoshop
I used photo shop to actually make my whole magazine and it was a very good piece of software to
use. Within photo shop, I used several tools to make my magazine how I wanted it to look. I used
the crop tool on my images, to crop them to the size I wanted them to be and make them fit to the
page as I wanted. Another tool that I used, was the brightness and contrast tool for my images, I
used this to add an effect to them, so that they would look better on the page, as I gathered good
images, and then I need to make them fit into the page appropriately with the brightness and
contrast levels. For example, if I collected a dull image, I would lift the brightness levels to
ensure that the details in this image are highly visible and noticeable. These are just some of the
tools on photo shop that I used whilst making my magazine.
Text
I used text a lot for my magazine, as obviously text was something that magazine had to have on it
to make it successful. I used a variety of texts, sizes and variations to make my magazine. I used
different variations to give my audience something else to look at, so they wouldn’t get bored of
looking at the same font styles throughout the magazine. Different fonts can represent different
target audiences, I managed to find fonts that I thought would be associated with the target
audience I was aiming my magazine at. Also the amount of text you have on the front cover is a key
point to be aware, if you have too much writing your target audience may get bored of reading it,
so they may want little bits of writing they can read quickly and still give them good information.
Image
The images that I took for my media magazine are all taken by a camera borrowed from the college. I took them making sure that my target audience was represented by the model. The clothing of the model was very important, as clothing was one of the most important things to attract and represent the target audience, especially with the clothing brands they wear. The way I had my model positioned was key as well, because for the magazine that I was making, the models are
usually standing in a stance where they are looking fierce, not in a friendly way. If my models
were standing in a friendly way, then it would not be suited for my magazine genre, it would not be
a good representation of the genre.
Rulers
I used rulers on photo shop, to make sure that everything was aligned. I done this to make my
magazine look as professional as possible. By having rulers for my magazine, it made it a lot
easier for me to make sure that everything was in the correct position and the correct size. Using
rulers made everything a lot easier for me so that I wouldn’t have to guess where things were or
how each of them aligned with each other, the use of rules made me be able to put them in a place
and if necessary move them to make sure that they were in the same alignment as the other set of
text.
Monday, 29 February 2016
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