Friday, 30 April 2010

Facebook Feedback

i have an empty slide on my PowerPoint for space for the face book feedback. i am going to put this on separately because i still haven't collected all of my feedback.

Jaime Howard : Double Spread: It's good photography and the write up is very cool.
: Front page: Oh, i love it and so does my mother. she says it look professional. i like the barcode etc.
: contents page :i love it :D ♥

Conrad Preston:Contents page: Very good no critisim
:front page: very good
: for a metal mag it looks kinda indie?

Ros Perkin : contents page:It like draws you in.

Charlie Rusell: Contents page: Shape and layout the pictures a bit more :D they look good, you've got the right amount, bit shape them a bit better.

Evaluation for music Magazine

This is the overal evaluation of the project of magazine production.

Thursday, 29 April 2010

update on evaluationn

i am still working on my evaluation and have collected peer feedback from my work. i have also put my work upon facebook to receive a wide range of comments. some of the negative feedback i have replied to and made my comments about it. i am going to have to finish my evaluation fully and thoroughly tomorrow as i do not have PowerPoint on my computer at home so I'm going to have to work hard tomorrow.

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

my final double page spread


finishing touches to my double page spread




screen shot 1: i took away any photoshop brushes front he title area because i think they were unneeded i just changed the colour of the names of the photography and author into yellow to tie the tabs into the article better. i moved up the sections of writing to make a space at the bottom the make the page numebrs more noticable and to overall balance out the space better.

scfreenshot 2: this is the screen shot that i put into my contents page int he section next to the gig reviews. i wanted to put a page preview in ym work to make the auidence want to read it and i have also seen this in music magazine contents pages and thought it looked good and effective.


experimentation wih double page spread









screen shot 1: this the image i was using as the background in the past post. you can see all of the detail in tight in the left corner so it wouldn't be a good background image.

screenshot 2: i wanted to add a other colour into the background so i changed the writing to yellow, which was one difficult to read and two just didn't look correct it just looked out of place. i also added the live tabs at the tab which i did by writing the text rubbing it out with a metal photoshop brush butting it onto a grey box and rubbing it out at the edges. i then added the two portrait images to the side of the main image. i wanted to show more of the gig. one of the images goes over the main image so i delicately erased the portrait image around his head. i did want to add an extra image but i though i would get too cluttered. i added small details like the page number at the bottom of the page. these numbers also correlate with the contents page. i used a photoshop brush over the title and information but i don't think the text is very visible on top of this.

screenshot 3: i changed the text to red as i though it was more noticeable and looked the same as the rest of the magazine. although, i did keep the yellow on the tab bits at the top just to introduce another colour. i also added a 'heard it here first' graphic which will make my article more exclusive and it is a buzz phrase because people are enticed to read. i removed the previous photoshop brush of the metal and added a ink/smokey brush instead but i still didn't think it looked correct.

screen shot4: this is another example of my multi-document working technique. i made the brush i wanted and then dragged it onto my document.

starting to make my double page spread



screenshot 1: i still wasn't sure on my layout because i wasn't following my double spread flat plan because i didn't think it looked very professional. i tried using the landscape image i wasn't going to use because i though i needed more colour in my magazine because until up to this point it had been red, white, and black.

screenshot 2: i then changed the picture again to a landscape picture of the bassist but i then realised there was too much detail on the left hand side of the picture and i didn't want to interrupt it with text. i also realised that my article was too big so i had to take out a large chunk to make it more like a gig review you would find in a magazine. i have noticed that gig reviews are usually very brief so i tried to make my article the same.