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Evalutation Question 7

 

          

Evaluation Question 6:

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

  

Question 4&5

Evaluation Q3:

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Q2: How does your Media Product Represent Particular Socail Groups?

Evaluation Question 1:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 

 

 

I created a video to show my answer, I used Sony Vegas Pro to create this, more on how I managed to do this to come.

Why Change the Double Page Spread?

This is the original draft of the double page spread for my music magazine. I was happy with it, and didn't intend on changing much about it, however, upon recent research I have changed my mind.

Taking a look at this double page spread, you can see that the text is smaller, there is less of it and the image is more focused on. I feel these are features my DPS is lacking in.

Here, you see that there is one image, some more text, however the image takes up a third and a half. The title is very large and so is the quote. Again, I felt this was not consistant with my work.

This is demonstrated again here.

This is just some of the changes I intend on making to the article.


From this I have learnt that I underestimated research and it is a valuable tool to use when creating a magazine. Upon correecting this, I am now able to change what I need to and bring the quality of the magaizne up.

Music Magazine 2nd Draft

2nd Draft of the front cover for Music Magazine. Somethings still need to be altered, however they are minor.

2nd Draft of the contents page for the Music Magazine. New layout and ideas but again, will be altered before final draft.

This is the 2nd Draft, however I have not changed anything. Upon recent research however, I intend to change the layout. Check out my next post for why.

Thanks,

Jess

Using Photshop: Creating a Minion

One of the coverlines mentioned on the contents page is 'Why We Love Pharrell' to tie along with this I have created a miniion from Despicable Me.
This is because Pharrell Williams composed the whole soundtrack to the movie and a lot of people like it.

Here is proof  that I created the minion with a white background and the paint brush tool.






I used images from the internet to help me figure out how I was going to make it look.

This is the completed image.

I intend on having the minion be very small purely to tie along with the coverline.

Using Photoshop: Evolution of the Front Cover



I started with a basic idea and experimented.

Originally I was going to call the magazine 'j' but soon had other ideas.

I learnt a lot more through using photoshop, for example, different skills on laying my secondary model over the first one etc.

I played around with positioning a lot throughout this process also.

Using Photoshop: Editing Background of Image

 

 The origonal images were good, but they needed to be edited. When taking the photo's I wanted to make the graffiti very saturated and to boost the contrast to get a cool effect.

 

When I did this however, my model was also affected. 

This is my solution.

I cut out the model and saved it as a layer in another file. Then, once I had acheived what I needed with the image I put the layer back on top of the image.

Once I positioned the layer of the model correctly, I noticed that where he had been cut out, some of the colours around him were noticably differnt due to the fact that it hadn't been saturated.

Here is an example of how you can see that the colours differ.

I then used a mixture of two techniques. The first, meant correcting the colours around the model by getting the exact colour and drawing over it.
The second meant simply using a very small brush to erase the parts I didn't want.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here you can see the colour being corrected with the paint tool.

 

Zoomed in, finished image. - Colour corrected.

 

Evidence of using photoshop

 

 

 

 

Here, I am editing my Double Page Spread

Here, I am editing an image to overlay onto another image.

Music Magazine Draft 1

Front Cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Secondary Model Photo's

Introducing; Ellie! - A Secondary Model

RAW PHOTOS OF MAIN MODEL - UNEDITED

Photo Shoot: Prepping and Planning - Rough Plans for Images

Once I had chosen my location, costume and camera etc. I sat down to have a really basic plan of the images. This meant that when I was on location I had a basic plan to go by and then I could take it from there, because often, while shooting I get new ideas... This has been shown in a YouTube video I posted under 'Unplanned Shots Taken on Location'

My Camera and Tripod

Thinking about My Camera and Tripod - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Photo Shoot - Prepping and Planning

Photoshoot - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

What I Have Learnt from My Research

Pitching My Magazine Idea!

This is a short clip of a pitch of my music magazine idea. It contains all the information about the magazine. Including who I would pitch it to.

Thanks,

Jess

Photoshoot Shot List ~ Basic Plan

Before the shoot I created a basic plan of what shots I wanted to get, so when I arrived on location I was able to have the plan already and get going.

 

 Please watch in HD (for the images )

New Types of Media to Prevent Repetition

Audience Profile and Approaching the Design