Diary Entry: week 9

Working towards the FINAL MAGAZINE DEADLINE

This week I have been intensively working on my media magazine at every opportunity including staying behind on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday after school.

The Main task for the Mondaywas to rethink and recheck my work making sure that my new improved magazine looked proffesional enough for goign towards the final draft. I planned to take some more photos of Hannah on Thursday again in order to find a different photo to give my work photo divesity. 

The photos themselves i was reallly impressed with because the lighting was different creating a difrent look from the photo giving them the extra edge to be able to use in my DPS. I took various levels of close up on different angles and tried using different themes. In the end I went with the 'Rolling' part of my DPS. In the end I chose a very 60's pose but close up and to a sided angle still allowing me to keep Adeles usual facial pose but adding in her fun and bubbly persnality. However this photo took some selecting which took over 2 days and about 5 favourites but by using my opinions allong with peer feedback I feel that I have selected the right one.  

I have also added numbers to the photos on my contents page and made sure that the contents page didn't have to many fonts. The week finished with another list made of things that I needed to change at the begining of next week.

Diary Entry: week 8

Moving on from the Rough Cut

Monday was the Rough Cut deadline and i worked through my free and after scool to get my magazine saved into the Rough Cut folder on the disc box.

On tuesday and wednesday we looked at everyone elses in the casses work and wrote a feedback sheet for every one. Then we took tem all back, read through them and then typed them up onto the blog. 

The rest of the week I made a list on scrap paper of all the things I needed to change and began to make my changes straight into photoshop to start making the ammendments which wher mainly aimed at my Contents page.    

Diary Entry: week 6

Construction begins!

This week I started to use photoshop to construct my magazine pages for the majority of the week I was working on the layout of the three pages. Once the pages were fully layed out I began to do some extra research for photos which was narrowed and information was fed into my photo planning grid. I also used my  sketched ideas as well as my existing magazine analysis of Q to work out what layout worked when inserting it into the Photoshop 4 software.
The thing which I managed to spend the most time on this week was trying to create a 'ALTERNAE' logo for my magazine with a wrongly slanting T, however when te calenge became to much I scraped the idea.   

Diary Entry: week 7

The construction continues
This week my magazine has really seemed to come to life because on Monday I managed to finish the basic layout, including the text and exactly where the photos would go on the pages by adding blank boxes temporerly. I also got in contact with my model who was being Adele to check her availability so planned to do them on thursday night infront of the white screen in the media room. I also told Hannah (my model) instructions of what to wear aswell as guidlines for make up, location and a time. Also on the Thursday i took my beatles photo to go with my DPS article, which the boys where suprisingly helpful for.  

Diary Entry: week 5

Magazine designing has begun!

For the majority of this week I have been working on designing my magazine by drawing out deigns on A4 paper. Before I started drawing the final designs I looked back ove my initial ideas to try and put all of my ideas together in my head before putting pen to paper. 

By the time the ideas where sorted in my head I had chose Q as my style model and my cover artist was going to be Adele. My colour scheme is going to be red, grey and white to give it a proffesional and slick look.

When starting to sketch out the pages which I envisaged in my mind I also designed the magazine logo and sketched out photo ideas before researching poses used before to portray the arists as I knew it will influence what I thought was appropriate, therefore creating more ideas for my photographic compositions. I then created 3 A4 full designs for contents page, Double page spread and front cover. All 3 pages where then scanned into the computer and uploaded to my Blog.