Full Answer
I feel as though I have learnt a lot from the first task
that I set to now. The evidence to prove that shows my skills on Photoshop that
have improved and my skills in using different cameras and lighting which will
help me for when I need to use that sort of equipment again in the future. I
did know some features of Photoshop that could help me through this process,
but I learnt other important aspects that I didn’t know before. I think that I
able to full achieve what I was asked to do throughout this project by using
these different programs due to the facilities on offer.
During the process, I didn’t have any problems with the
programs that I encountered which made the project run as smoothly as possible
when creating the magazine pages. And as I look back on my first draft of the
task that I was set right at the beginning, it truly proves the professionalism
that I had put into making my real and final product look as neat and tidy as
ever, in a sense that people would actually want to read it.
When I was creating my preliminary magazine cover and
contents, the only theme I stuck to was incorporating the school colours to
that the text would match with the logo. I think that this decision and the
font choice I made looks tacky and the fact that I tried to make the text over
the image look readable may have needed some adjusting.
I had always has conventional magazine covers in my mind, so
I knew how to create something of a professional state, but using my skills and
trying to get to that standard was a long process. I learnt that I had to keep
to a specific layout, such as the examples above. I noticed that on my final
preliminary magazine cover there is a lot of ‘negative space’; I think that I possibly could have filled this
with an appropriate background so that the attention of the buyers isn’t taken
away and so that it is still on the Centre
of Visual Interest. Also, for the contents page, I didn’t really take into
account where to put the text because I didn’t really follow a layout like I
should have for the front cover, for instance, maybe an Alley should have been considered so that there was space given
between the text and the border so that it looked a lot neater.
The layout examples that I have written down are in
connection to the front cover and I decided to go with the ‘E’ layout
considering I thought that it looked the neatest and that I was able to place
the information that I wanted to in the right place in regards to my chosen
magazine theme and I thought this would be suitable.
What I learnt about conventional magazine styles is that I
should most defiantly keep a layout or theme style when making something like
this.
By looking at my prelim task and my final magazine covers, it is obvious
that by sustaining a layout, I have made great improvements. It is important
that the photos stand out from the rest, the colour scheme is continuous and
that the text can be read. I think that a ‘Deck’
was used in regards to the headline at the bottom of the front cover to
summarise the article that is to come. In connection with this, a lot of ‘Filler’ text, placed at the top of the
cover, was used to fill the negative
space that was created from not filling the cover totally with the chosen
image.
I believe that using a house theme/style makes a magazine
unique, which is something I also stuck to when creating my final magazine due
to the fact that I wanted to create something new and different. These factors
mean the most when attracting the sort of audience I’m looking for so that
everything on the page has to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
In
conclusion, I think that Photoshop is the best program to use when constructing
a project like this; it enables the user to use various tools and filters to
create a good and professional piece of work. The work that I produced at the
beginning of the project shows huge progression from where I was then, to where
I am now and shows the amount of consideration and hard
work that has been put in to improve such a thing.
