Diary Entry Nine-Monday 30th April

The last few weeks i have been focussed on perfecting my final cuts for my magazine and i finished those in time for my deadline, last Tuesday. This week i have been working towards my evaluation, I think i will do this in a form of videos/dvd and I have been taught how to use the programme Adobe Premier Pro in order for me to create my evaluation.

Final Cuts

This is my final cut for my front cover. I feel that this has been successful and I am pleased that my finished product is exactly what i aimed for my magazine to look like. I think that from my rough cut to my final cut a variety of minor changes have allowed me to improve the quality resulting in a professional looking music magazine. I stuck to the colour scheme, that my target audience chose, of red white and black and added certain elements such as changed the word 'Katie' to red in orger to highlight this as much as i could. I think that from looking at my front cover you can now clearly see that i have taken influence from my style model Q and looked closely at the conventions of front covers of music magazines.

This is my final cut for my contents page. I am extremely pleased with this page and the huge change from my basic rough cut to my final cut. This page is the page which needed the most work from my rough cut feedback and i think it also has the best resemblance of my style model, Q. I think that the images on this page, especially the main image, are very striking and draw the reader in, making them want to turn directly to page 46 and read the article. This is exactly what i aimed for as it was something which i liked and wanted to use from Q magazine as i think your audience is the most important aspect and this catered exactly to their needs and preferences.

This is my final cut for my double page spread. Again, i am pleased with the outcome for this page and think that although it had the least changes to be made, according to my target audience and rough cut feedback; it has come far in representing my genre and style of my magazine and style model. I think that minor details on this page have added to the overall professional look of my double page spread, for example the album information at the bottom and the date, name and page number under the seperating line. I also like the links i have created between the image and text with the fade to white from the image to text and the red line at the top going through the artists name and through to the image.

Original Images For Final Cuts

This is the image that i have taken to replace the front cover image from my rough cut. I think this image tells a lot about the artist and is more professional looking. I will crop this image to be a close up but keep the blank background at the top of the image for my title to be placed behind. I think this image connects to the audience with the look in the artists eye and entices them encouraging them to buy the magazine. I am also planning on flipping this image horizontally so that the larger section of her hair is a background for the band of text with artist features on the left of my front cover.

This is the image that i have taken to replace the contents page image from my rough cut. This image was taken around staging equiptment which i think adds an extra element of the music magazine along with the drumsticks. This image has a professional aspect to it in my opinion as it looks as though it could have been taken back stage at a gig or concert of this artist. You can also tell through this image that the featured model is involved in music by his stance and grasp of the drumsticks, again making it more realistic and appealing to a musical audience.

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Technical Guide

Throughout the process of creating my music magazine I used Photoshop for a variety of different things to ensure my magazine was as professional as possible.

How I used Photoshop for my images:

 

-I flipped the image horizontally to fit my design of my front cover more appropriately 

-I used the brightness and contrast tool to highlight her features and add extra light as the image didn't feature as much natural light as i would have liked.

-I edited quality of her skin tone sing the following tools-spot healing brush tool, healing brush tool, patch tool

-I used the brightness and contrast tool again for the same reasons as above.

-I used hue and saturation and emboss tools on her nails to add colour and make it look like the shape and texture of natural nails.

-I used the dodge tool to brighten her hair and areas around her eyes

-I again used brightness and contrast to add the extra natural like that i would have preferred

-I added text with a drop shadow to stand out-i used the eyedropper tool to capture a primary colour of his drumstick to use for the colour of the text and the same tool to capture the colour of his shoe laces to use for the drop shadow colour. This in my opinion just brings the image together and is aesthetically pleasing for the reader.

-I flipped the image horizontally, to fit the layout of my double page spread here.

-I reduced the saturation scale to -100 here to make my image black and white to fit my colour scheme and create an urban effect.

-I used the healing tool and clone stamp to take out the sticker of numbers on the lamppost.

-I smoothened her jeans with the clone stamp and healing brush tool.

-I edited the quality of her skin using the following tools-spot healing brush tool, healing brush tool, patch tool

-I used fade tool to add the gradual fade along the right hand side of the image.

How i used Photoshop for other reasons:

I used the shape tool, crop tool, rubber, drop shadow, outer glow, emboss and bevel here to make this inset circle/sticker for my front page.

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Diary Entry Eight-Tuesday 17th April

This week i have continued to manipulate my magazine to improve each page in time for my final cut deadline next week. I have been making minor final changes such as perfecting the even skin tone on my front cover images using the patch and healing tool in Photoshop. I have also changed text on my front cover in order to use more fonts and colours to make my colour scheme more apparent and to incorporate certain features and conventions of current bestselling music magazines.

Diary Entry Seven-Wednesday 4th April

This week i created another photo planning table to plan my new photographs for my front cover and contents page as through my rough cut feedback and my own personal views i have decided to change these specific images. After taking these images i then edited them on Photoshop using: brightness and contrast, spot healing tool and patch tool.