Monday 3 March 2014
Wednesday 26 February 2014
Production log #21 - Completing My Magazine
Throughout the 3 weeks of school and the half term, I've strongly focused on my magazine pages and tried to make it appeal as possible to my audience with the feedback I've received from the audience survey. I would take the survey results as an advantage in me moving ahead and being confident in using different skills and style. I've made sure that every feature of each page is bold and visible. I've also adjusted small things like adding social media in one of the double page spread, and tweaking the layout in order to make it look more professional and mature.
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Transcript:
For my evaluations,istead of using different media sources into portraying my evaluation answers, I decided to make a magazine based on the evaluation questions and include my work and my answers. This is to boost the concept of 'magazines'. It is also a quick process to do, as my evaluations were already done, it was just about putting boxes and headings, then inserting the text in one go. Furthermore, I added more interactive assets like QR Codes to make sure that readers would be interactive with the magazine as well as looking through my blog to see all my work towards making the magazine.
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Transcript:
For my evaluations,istead of using different media sources into portraying my evaluation answers, I decided to make a magazine based on the evaluation questions and include my work and my answers. This is to boost the concept of 'magazines'. It is also a quick process to do, as my evaluations were already done, it was just about putting boxes and headings, then inserting the text in one go. Furthermore, I added more interactive assets like QR Codes to make sure that readers would be interactive with the magazine as well as looking through my blog to see all my work towards making the magazine.
Process - Changing Complete Layout (Front Cover)
As you can see from all the covers beside,there has been an extreme progress of mine throughout the project, from starting draft with rough ideas on where I've placed the sell lines, to the way it has been completely changed from fonts to the colours, proves that my progres is very strong because as a creator and editor of the magazine, few features of the front cover was not as appealing as what the cover is now.Overall, the process of my magazine throughout the project has to be justifiable, this is because of my strong progress in using the software and designing the magazine.
Monday 10 February 2014
Production Log #20 - Editing Magazine Page and identifying small mistakes
I spend today's lesson to make sure that my magazine in general can look professional as possible. On my contents page, I found many mistakes which would have lost me marks. I realised that I some of the numbers and captions which support the images on the page were hidden, There was problems with colours, I had few colours which were in really dark purple but would have classifed as black.I carrie don editing my magazine pages and made sure it got the stadnard I wanted to. I identified many small mistakes which i edited, by using the keyboard shortcuts, making it quicker and less time consuming by using the mouse.
Tuesday 4 February 2014
Production Log #19 - Magazine Page Improvements
I spent this week's lesson in focusing on completing my pages as there is a penultimate deadline in which I will be recieving final feedback from the teacher.
I focused mainly on all of my pages to make sure that everything fitted well into the page.
I had to adjust the size of the fonts, the positioning of the images and text. I also made sure that the most important codes and coventions of the contents page appeared.
I included another page which is a special edition article. I had some issues with colours as it came up to dark on the computers screens compared to some other computer screens where it's lighter. I also included another colour into the house style and that's grey. This made my magazine look more professional and classy.
I focused mainly on all of my pages to make sure that everything fitted well into the page.
I had to adjust the size of the fonts, the positioning of the images and text. I also made sure that the most important codes and coventions of the contents page appeared.
I included another page which is a special edition article. I had some issues with colours as it came up to dark on the computers screens compared to some other computer screens where it's lighter. I also included another colour into the house style and that's grey. This made my magazine look more professional and classy.
Process - Editng Front Cover and Contents Page
During my free time, I decided to edit my front cover and take in the feedback I received from my audience. The audience feedback is essential in order to make my magazine pages successful. The feedback included to improve font and colours on the front cover page as well aligning the sell lines, so I went according to the feedback and re adjusted my front cover.
As you can see from the 2 images below, the process from the first draft page to the second draft page shows that I changed the box colour and transparency in order to make the text more visual.
As you can see from the 2 images below, the process from the first draft page to the second draft page shows that I changed the box colour and transparency in order to make the text more visual.
Thursday 30 January 2014
Process - New Skills on Photoshop, Editing Images and Editing Magazine Pages
27th January 2014
Editing Images and placing them onto the magazine pages in indesign were the main tasks I was focusing on in today's lesson.
Photoshop frequently being used in order to edit the chosen images. With help from tutorials, I found out how to edit images in order to give a neat and clear presentation. I learnt how to airbrush the image without it looking obvious. Get the main features standing out - like the eyes and lips. The burn tool became a handy tool inorder to get parts of the images more visible, while keeping the exposure down. I also adjusted few images from the studio and outdoor shot. One of the outdoor shot images, I adjusted the image to make it black and white while balancing the contrast and brightness.
Quick Mask tool was also another handy tool to edit out the background in order to get a cut out image.
For the magazine pages, I focused more on the front cover and my contents page. My front cover had to be my weakest page. I had to choose between 3 images for my front cover. I screenshot each of the pages.
Editing Images and placing them onto the magazine pages in indesign were the main tasks I was focusing on in today's lesson.
Photoshop frequently being used in order to edit the chosen images. With help from tutorials, I found out how to edit images in order to give a neat and clear presentation. I learnt how to airbrush the image without it looking obvious. Get the main features standing out - like the eyes and lips. The burn tool became a handy tool inorder to get parts of the images more visible, while keeping the exposure down. I also adjusted few images from the studio and outdoor shot. One of the outdoor shot images, I adjusted the image to make it black and white while balancing the contrast and brightness.
Quick Mask tool was also another handy tool to edit out the background in order to get a cut out image.
For the magazine pages, I focused more on the front cover and my contents page. My front cover had to be my weakest page. I had to choose between 3 images for my front cover. I screenshot each of the pages.
Sunday 26 January 2014
Production Log #18 - Blog Cleanup
20th January 2014
I decided to organise my blog so that I which work I have completed and which I hacen't. I decieded to organise my production logs, by changing the title to what I have compelted so that whenever someone is reading the production log, they will immediately know what tasks I have been doing. Taking me up to at least 2 double lessons to complete this task.
I decided to organise my blog so that I which work I have completed and which I hacen't. I decieded to organise my production logs, by changing the title to what I have compelted so that whenever someone is reading the production log, they will immediately know what tasks I have been doing. Taking me up to at least 2 double lessons to complete this task.
Friday 24 January 2014
Production Log #17 - Progress, Evaluation and Audience Feedback
20th December 2013 - 4th January 2013
In the 2 weeks, I did not only focus on the progression of finishing off my magazine but also completing all the evaluation questions and making reference to my final product. Furthermore, I got opinions from the audience, and in order to get their views about my magazine, I created survey consisting 9 questions on survey monkey. With the questions, I made sure that each question or some where different instead of having a yes or no option as I can get a clear indication of their opinions.
I first focused on completing the front cover of my magazine, by adding all the sell lines, adjusting the positioning and the sizes of them - making sure they don't overlap or cover up the main image.
The contents page needed more images in order to make it look completed and finished. I got images from concerts which I've attended and included the contents page. I adjusted the colouring of the text and the size. I also included the subscribe section.
Before I started my article, I chose 2-5 images which were suitbale to use for my article and edited them by cutting out the background and giving the image a few tweaks such as brightening up the eyes and airbrushing the image.
As I have already wrote my article beforehand, to complete my double page spread there was no hassle about inserting the text as I had to copy and paste it. I decided to add a box out - 'fact file' which would make the page more appealing and not put off the reader.
The evaluation questions were broken down into 7 different questions, each referring to a different key concept. Audience, Representation and more.It made understand more about my magazine and how I wanted it to be. I refered back to my proposal and many other tasks in order for me to evaluate in full.
The audience feedback has given me an insight on what the audience has liked and disliked about the magazine. They also gave their own views about what specific thing they didn't like and like.
In the 2 weeks, I did not only focus on the progression of finishing off my magazine but also completing all the evaluation questions and making reference to my final product. Furthermore, I got opinions from the audience, and in order to get their views about my magazine, I created survey consisting 9 questions on survey monkey. With the questions, I made sure that each question or some where different instead of having a yes or no option as I can get a clear indication of their opinions.
I first focused on completing the front cover of my magazine, by adding all the sell lines, adjusting the positioning and the sizes of them - making sure they don't overlap or cover up the main image.
The contents page needed more images in order to make it look completed and finished. I got images from concerts which I've attended and included the contents page. I adjusted the colouring of the text and the size. I also included the subscribe section.
Before I started my article, I chose 2-5 images which were suitbale to use for my article and edited them by cutting out the background and giving the image a few tweaks such as brightening up the eyes and airbrushing the image.
As I have already wrote my article beforehand, to complete my double page spread there was no hassle about inserting the text as I had to copy and paste it. I decided to add a box out - 'fact file' which would make the page more appealing and not put off the reader.
The evaluation questions were broken down into 7 different questions, each referring to a different key concept. Audience, Representation and more.It made understand more about my magazine and how I wanted it to be. I refered back to my proposal and many other tasks in order for me to evaluate in full.
The audience feedback has given me an insight on what the audience has liked and disliked about the magazine. They also gave their own views about what specific thing they didn't like and like.
Monday 6 January 2014
Sunday 5 January 2014
Audience Survey on 1st Magazine Draft
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The link above is a survey for my audience to take so that I can get their opinions on my 1st magazine draft. With the feedback I get, I will make sure that they are applied to the magazine so that I can give a good final product to my target audience.
This task can help me improve my magazine with the views given by my audience. This can aid in making final product being successful. The audience are giving their views by looking at a draft magazine I have made. As this is my first draft I am expected to get many improvements which can lead to making my magazine pages a good success.
The link above is a survey for my audience to take so that I can get their opinions on my 1st magazine draft. With the feedback I get, I will make sure that they are applied to the magazine so that I can give a good final product to my target audience.
This task can help me improve my magazine with the views given by my audience. This can aid in making final product being successful. The audience are giving their views by looking at a draft magazine I have made. As this is my first draft I am expected to get many improvements which can lead to making my magazine pages a good success.
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