Diary Entry - Week Ten: 4th – 8th April 2011

Following advice from multiple people who looked at my rough cuts, I used Monday this week to re-take the images for my double page spread, as my original one was slightly out of focus on the face. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were used to continue improving my rough cuts and to re-draft my double page spread using the new and improved image. On Friday, we were given an explanation of the different ways we could evaluate our product, which I will begin to do following the final deadline on Thursday next week.

Diary Entry – Week Nine: 28th March – 1st April 2011

The deadline to have the rough cut first drafts of my cover, contents page and double spread uploaded was five o’clock on Monday this week, and the following day I received feedback of these from both my teacher and the other students in my class (who are conveniently all part of my target market). After learning what they liked and thought could be improved about my magazine, I was able to type up these comments and upload them to my blog, and then in my remaining three lessons I began to work on my second drafts based on their advice.

Rough Cut Feedback

After completing a first draft of my front cover, contents page and double page spread, I was able to get some feedback from my teacher and other students - here are a selection of their comments:

Teacher:
Front cover - Really well made. Strong Photo, good font diversity.
                     Possibly too dark? The logo could be stroinger.

Contents Page - Well presented. Clear articles and descriptions. Good photography.
                          More diversity in photos (Long shots/ Close-ups?) Stronger logo again.

DPS - Really good! Great photo, good positioning of the eext and range in fonts.
           Photos posisbly a bit blurry? Maybe break up the text a bit.

Other students - What did they like?
Front cover - Good colour scheme, matches her clothes. Good makeup/ costume on model. Good layout,    variety of font styles. Uses conventions well. Clear house style.

Contents Page - Good main image. Good layout of text. Inkeeping with colour scheme. Good range of images. Clear house style. Well sectioned and easy to understand.

DPS - Lovey choice of colours, all inkeeping - even her nails and bracelet! Text fits around the image. Very strong layout. Good writing style. Bright, very girly.

What could have been improved?
Front cover - Date, issue and price should be the same size. Writing in box at the top should have more space at the sides.

Contents Page - Retake two smaller images - Don't fit in as well and look as professional. Add a page number at the bottom.

DPS - Image slightly out of focus? Make quote stand out a bit more. Possibly have standfirst in a different colour/ size to differentiate it from article. Make headline stand out more?

Music Magazine First Drafts:

Following are the rough cuts of the cover, contents page and double page spread of my music magazine:

 

Diary Entry - Week Eight: 21st – 25th March 2011

On the Monday of this week, I took my photographs of my model portraying Paloma Faith for my cover, double page spread and contents page. In Tuesday’s lesson, I again used the digital SLR to take the remaining two photographs for my contents page, and the rest of the week was devoted to using Photoshop to enhance my images and begin to insert them onto my pages.

Location Shots

These are the three locations I used for my photoshoots, all located around school.

Original Images

These are the original images I have taken using the digital SLR camera, which I then edited using Photoshop to be used on my cover, contents page and double page spread.

Cover:

Contents Page:

Double Page Spread: