plan for the next couple of weeks...

At the weekend, I am taking The SLR camera home so I can re-do the Gene Simmons picture, but as it will be a better camera, the picture quality will be alot better so I can stretch it to an A4, and use it as my front page spread.

Next week, I need to download my font off urbanfonts.com, as i do have a few in mind, so I need to chose which one will look better with the whole page.

I also need to do my contents page, and front page spread for my preliminary so that can all be finished by next week.

For my blogging, I need to do a story board and a mood board.

When I have done my pictures, I can do my front page spread straight away, and will use that to do my contents too.

double Page spread..

Yesterday in my double I made my double page spread, which involved me putting the poloroid pictures onto the spread, as well as the text and the background colour. I chose a deep red as my background colour, with black text and the boxes in white. My colour scheme matches my blog, as it is all black, red and white. Firstly, I did my layout, with the poll on the left hand side, the text on the left and the pictures on the right. There was a lot of dead space, and after Looking through an issue of MOJO from March 2007, and seeing how they have used all of their space effectively. I changed the layout, which made use of the space well. I am now happy with my layout, as before it looked very flat as all of the font was the same, so I changed the fonts, and the colours, and I am now very happy with it!

my audience research...

this is my audience research, I have chosen the best interviews out of all, which have given me a diverse group of answers in my opinion. Judging from people's favourite music genre, i would like to do my magazine in a rock style, as that seems to be popular.

photoshop...

this is the final photoshopped image, you cannot see the changes too well on the blog as it is quite distant. But the changes I have made are sharpen the eyes, making the saturation and the colour of the picture better, so the colours stand out more, blurring the people in the background and sharpening the main image, colouring the lips, spot removal and making the over exposed areas on her forehead a normal colour.

preliminary task...

i really like this shot and think it would look great on my front cover.

it is well lit, and I like all of the action going on in the background making it seem a typical school shot.

The cigarette represents what my article is going to be on.. 'breaking school rules' and the expression on hannah's face makes her look mischievious, as if she is doing something wrong.