Monday, 22 February 2010
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Qu 7: Skills Development
From my original college magazine contents I learned a lot about the layout that a contents page should have, and also added more relevant features and regulars to tie in with the magazine. I also kept a similar font theme throughout and the colour theme going as well so it was noticeable that the contents belonged with the cover. Once again I learnt a lot of skills whilst using photoshop, for example how to add effects and how to edit and pull about my photos. Following my experiences making my music magazine, I have learnt a lot using photoshop and developed a lot of other new and important skills.
Qu 7: Skills Development
I learnt a lot of different skills after developing my college magazine into my music magazine. I learnt a lot about editing my photography, as in my music magazine, I based my magazine photos on other U2 pictures, so I could make sure that I got across U2's individual style. Also by the point that I came to making my final cover and products, I had learnt how to use photoshop a lot better, so I managed to use better effects, and I also had a better understanding of layout and aiming towards my target audience. I also tried to use different colours, in order to create a good contrast, and also made sure that I kept the magazine looking professional and kept the theme of black and white pictures, and fonts and colours throughout. This included researching more into already made magazines, for example 'NME' and 'Q' as I based my magazine on the theme of these.
Qu 6: Technologies
Photography:
From my original college magazine, I developed my photography a lot more. What I found really useful was using existing images as a template for my own photographs. This helped when it cam to lighting, composition, assembling the models and props. I also planned my main photographs a lot differently and better, as I used more people, and made the pictures relevant to the text.
Photoshop:
I learned a lot about how to edit my photographs using Photoshop. The software makes just about anything possible and what helped me was having a really good draft to start with and then finding out how to use the software to achieve the designs and effects I was after. think I learnt something new about the software every day. The most exciting effect I learnt to do was to create a Shadow on an image which I did on the double page spread. I knew I wanted an image where the band were in the distance and where they had a really long shadow at the front of the shot but on the winter's day when I took my image there was hardly any sun at all and I couldn't get a shadow. In Photoshop, I made a separate layer and put the models on this so that I could manipulate them without interfering with the original image. Next, I flipped this layer vertically so that they were upside down. I then transformed this layer using the perspective tool so that it took the shape of an afternoon shadow and finally, I made the image solid black, reduced the opacity and blurred it so that it looked like a shadow. This made me wonder about how much images we see in the media might be manipulated.
Flickr:
I used this in order to annotate my final products, and I could therefore easily show which parts of the magazine I was annotating with the note function, therefore making it easier to see. It's a really useful tool for annotation as it limits how much text you can use so you have to be precise and it also means that you can specifically label parts of an image.
Blogger: Blogger is useful as a way of producing a coursework portfolio as it means that everything is kept well organised and you don't risk losing anything. It does have its downsides though. It is difficult to place text and images exactly where you want them and it can be slow and frustrating to use.
From my original college magazine, I developed my photography a lot more. What I found really useful was using existing images as a template for my own photographs. This helped when it cam to lighting, composition, assembling the models and props. I also planned my main photographs a lot differently and better, as I used more people, and made the pictures relevant to the text.
Photoshop:
I learned a lot about how to edit my photographs using Photoshop. The software makes just about anything possible and what helped me was having a really good draft to start with and then finding out how to use the software to achieve the designs and effects I was after. think I learnt something new about the software every day. The most exciting effect I learnt to do was to create a Shadow on an image which I did on the double page spread. I knew I wanted an image where the band were in the distance and where they had a really long shadow at the front of the shot but on the winter's day when I took my image there was hardly any sun at all and I couldn't get a shadow. In Photoshop, I made a separate layer and put the models on this so that I could manipulate them without interfering with the original image. Next, I flipped this layer vertically so that they were upside down. I then transformed this layer using the perspective tool so that it took the shape of an afternoon shadow and finally, I made the image solid black, reduced the opacity and blurred it so that it looked like a shadow. This made me wonder about how much images we see in the media might be manipulated.
Flickr:
I used this in order to annotate my final products, and I could therefore easily show which parts of the magazine I was annotating with the note function, therefore making it easier to see. It's a really useful tool for annotation as it limits how much text you can use so you have to be precise and it also means that you can specifically label parts of an image.
Blogger: Blogger is useful as a way of producing a coursework portfolio as it means that everything is kept well organised and you don't risk losing anything. It does have its downsides though. It is difficult to place text and images exactly where you want them and it can be slow and frustrating to use.
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