Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?




























When I first started this course, I wasn't really familiar with the magazine structure or making
process. Overtime I have learnt that there are certain feautures into putting together a magazine e.g. the masthead takes up 1/4 of the page and the image takes up most of the page or the whole page. When I first made my school magazine for the preliminary task I made the masthead quite small whilst having the picture small and in the corner. I simply had one headline on my front cover, I have now learnt that one headline is not enough to draw in a reader therefore placing many different headlines on my music magazine cover. My school magazine cover is very disorganised and has no structure as at the time I did not give that any importance. I have learnt how to use digital enhancements on the overall magazine image. As for the text, I know think that the shorter and snapier the headlines are the better unlike my school magazine which consists of a long sentance which may not stick into peoples head as much as the texts on my music magazine.

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Camera used: Fuji FinePix S2980 Bridge 14MP


Software used:

Serif PhotoPlus

www.taaz.com

www.befunky.com

Editing the photos

This shows the before and after shots of my cover image. As you can see I had to change the background to make it look solid and bold and to give it that professional look. As many magazines airbrush their models to give them that 'perfect' and 'desirable' look, I too slimmed down my model in the arm area and defined her body shape by giving her a tummy tuck to make her bust look bigger. I cleaned up her hair by removing the wispy bits around the edges and defining her colour.

I did the same for this photo as I cleaned the wispy bits around her hair. I defined her makeup on Taaz.com by putting some colour in her cheeks and giving her bright red lips, I think this worked well because of the contrast against the 'dull' grey jacket. I added the pinky peach background to almost associate with the red lips as they are from the same colour palette. Overall I gave the photo a blooming bright look that makes it look more glamorous.

This image represented the more dark side to my magazine therefore she is wearing a mostly black dress yet the floral colours remind you of the glamorous side. I took this outside against the bricks as a way to show the edgy 'rough' look and I got the black door in to show mystery and darkness. Again I re-touched up the makeup to define her face and consider it equal to her floral dress by using pink lipstick. I cropped the image as the door was taking up too much space and I wanted the photo to focus on her. I edited it to look more brighter and intense but to keep the edge I gave the corners a black misty effect.

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I had slight difficulties with lighting but I used befunky to overcome this and give it that lit effect. It was hard to find the perfect white background even when I used sheets therefore I used Serif PhotoPlus to eliminate the background altogether and replacing it with a colour of my choice. I  found that the camera did not pick up to greatly on the facial makeup so I used Taaz.com to define this or even change it. I also used Serif PhotoPlus to airbrush things such as spots, blemishes and dark circles.