Below is draft four of my magazine:
What’s new?
- I changed the main cover star image and added in another image on my contents page to make sure I was hitting the brief of a minimum of four images
- I changed the pug design and colour
- I added in captions under my cover lines
- I removed ‘Liberty’ from my contents page
- I made the ‘RISE” bigger on my dps
Reflection
The preparation for this task began way back in September when we did a lot of research tasks on the forms and conventions of magazines. Some examples of these included; physically dressing up, learning how to use a DSLR & flash kits, blog posts on who our audience is & who our competition is, etc. By doing these tasks it helped us be more aware of what we need to consider when conducting our magazine, and how to create our magazines. Learning how to use a camera to get the highest quality photos for our magazine was vital so we could produce a piece of work that creates a better visual appeal and makes my magazine stand out from my competition for the right reasons. We also did tasks on the software applications which included; Adobe Indesign and Adobe Photoshop. One of the tasks was to create a tour poster based on an allocated genre of music we were given at random, and after this, we dressed up our models and took photos of them from various angles and distances. Editing them on InDesign and Photoshop gave us an advantage when it came to creating our magazine as we roughly knew our way around the software and what tools did what. Dressing up our model also expanded my knowledge of the importance of Mise-en-scene and what message it communicates to our target audience. All of these tasks we did to prepare for the production of our magazines were key as without them it wouldn’t have been as successful!
In my opinion I do think I have fulfilled the brief as I created a front page, contents page, double page spread all by using at least a minimum of 4 images taken by me. My magazine also included a various amount of conventional features found in an Indie magazine, for instance; a masthead, cover lines, star image, price, barcode, etc.
A lightbulb moment I remember having was how I could incorporate my title on my double page spread to make it more suited towards my audience. I played around with the typefaces and finally chose to incorporate the actual meaning of the word ‘rise’ to how it looks.
Some difficulties that I faced was things like making sure I had at least 4 images, how I was going to fit in my double page spread title, and having some issues when it came to photoshopping my images-specifically a white border around it. I learnt from these problems by either being resilient or asking my peers or the teacher for some help.
I would recommend myself watching some YouTube video tutorials on Photoshop and InDesign so I can visually see what I need to do, what tools to find, and how it should look by the end of the tutorial. I would also advise myself to have a clear plan on what information I was going to include so I can work around that when adding in the masthead and images. By having a clear plan I would follow would also enable myself to complete the magazine with no rush so I would allow myself with plenty of time.