My Draft Article:
This is a link to my draft article as it won’t allow me to embed the article
Improvements to make:
My Article Development template:
My Location shoot risk assessment and production meeting agenda (PMA)
In the Design and Production of our magazines we have learnt how to use the programs ‘InDesign and Photoshop.’ Learning how to use these programs can allow us to make changes to our images to make them look how we want. These design features can completely change the quality and message of an image. Without using these design programs our images wouldn’t be able to be altered and simple things such as cut the star out from the image wouldn’t be possible and we would have the entire background with the image too. There are many tools on these programs that can help us change our image or our design around the images we have taken, the effects tab has multiple effects that can be applied and manipulated to text and images. There are many other aspects of our design process that wasn’t just using the tools built into the programs. Such as our layout design was just up to how we wanted things things to be arranged we didn’t need to use special tools for that unless you were trying to add certain effects to give your page a unique feel to it.
These are the different effects that are built into InDesign, these effects can be applied to images and text. These effects have many ways they can be manipulated such as the spread, noise and opacity, etc.
These are the effects that can be used to to manipulate your text, you change the size, typeface/style, stretch/squish, capitalize, space out, change the colours and strokes, italicize, widen/thin your text. There is still more you can do with these effects and you can combine them to get the look you really want for your text.
These are my first drafts of my cover page, the cover page with the grey background was my original before any changes were made. The cover page with the black background is after making the changes given by a peer. These changes are:
I hope the changes made can make the top of the magazine feel a little less empty and the black background will be stronger than the grey. I hope that more attention will be drawn to the relevant areas instead of the irrelevant areas such as the barcode.
Original Version:
New and improved version:
My first draft of my front page before any feedback or changes have been made.
Changes I’m going to make:
I am making these changes based on peer feedback that was given to me.
In this shoot we used the production meeting agenda (PMA), to try and take the perfect photos for my music magazine. I have followed my PMA by using the correct equipment such as the flash kit and studio room. I have also used the correct clothing, props and directions.
This is my first contact sheet from my first photo shoot in the studio:
These are my 6 favourite photo’s from the shoot: I think these are my strongest photos because they best represent my chosen genre and what I want my magazine to be.
These are some of the masthead designs that I have played around with in inDesign, the first 5 are all fonts straight from inDesign and the last 3 are all fonts that have been downloaded from Dafont. My favourite font for my magazine is Urban Jungle but when I finished my first draft I didn’t have this font available.
My magazines mission statement/brand values is to provide a service to all fans of the genre at an affordable price, this service will provide news and information about any artists, changes, songs etc in the rap genre.
My studio shoot was my first time doing an actual photo shoot on my own, I learnt had to use a DSLR camera for the shoot and how to use the flash equipment to alter my image. These skills were learnt in lessons we had before the shoot that taught us how to use all of this equipment. We also had learnt about mise-en-scene before our shoot, I used mise-en-scene to completely change the message that the image conveyed, I used a champagne glass, chair and lots of jewelry, the champagne and jewelry shows the rappers wealth and the chair was used to have the rapper sat and facing certain actions. Our camera was a huge part of the mise-en scene we played around with a lot of different settings on the camera and heights at which we had the camera, but in the end I think we found the right settings and height. We took a large amount of our photos at these settings. We tried to get the positioning of our camera as center as possible and our flash equipment to cover all angles because we didn’t want any shadows in our photo, if we had shadows around the model it could’ve been difficult in Photoshop to edit around our photo.
This is my Production Meeting Agenda for my first photo shoot, it shows all the clothes, props and actions we plan on taking. Here is a link.