Project Monitoring 6

This week I finished my magazine in it's entirety, this involved finishing all of the DPS', the front cover and the contents page. I had finished the front cover in the previous week so I only had to do the rest of the pages, I had created the backgrounds for the Capture article and the 'rock star article' so I only needed to add the text to it, I had created the background for the 'album' article but I decided to change it because I didn't like the background when I put all of the content in, because it is a very text heavy article I decided to use a plain background because any colours in the background would distract the eyes from the text. I decided to take a different approach to the layout of each album in the list, using a small thumbnail image and the title with the corresponding text below, this looked professional and was easier to read. I also created the title for the article, I made one for my initial mock up several months ago, I liked the way it looked, so I created a title that looked similar to the one I used originally. Another thing I had to create was the contents page, I looked to Kerrang Magazine for the inspiration for the contents page, I made a collage of all of the features in the top and had all of the other articles that would be in the magazine on the bottom half of the page.

Overall I am really pleased with the outcome of my piece, I think that I have worked well in the time that I have been given, I have worked hard and managed to take some good images and edit them to create a professional looking magazine that is to a high standard. 

Project Monitoring 5

This week I finished my front cover for my magazine, this was meant to be done in the final week of the production, but I had time in my  schedule to do it, at first I had the title of the magazine, the main image of 'Capture' and it's heading, I worked with the brightness of the image before I put it into the cover, because the faces looked a little dark and I needed them brighter. I was not sure as to what would go into the front cover, but then I decided to put in the other articles in. I also added an imaginary competition to fill up the cover, also because the generic music magazine has competitions, for the cover I have stuck to a three colour pallet of red, black and white. Once I had finished the front cover, I started work on the other DPS'

I thought I should get the 'Capture' spread out of the way because it is a triple page spread and it would take up the most time, the first thing I did was start on the first page of the three

The first page of the triple page spread shows the band in a relaxed stance, I chose this image because it looks the most natural and still retains a professional feel. Sticking with the style of the front cover, I created the title for the page, for the title, I looked through the interview that I did with the band and chose a quote from the vocalist about the band, because he used the word 'fruity' I thought I could incorporate this into the image, I went onto Google and got the texture of an orange and layered the text over the top, selected the letters, but copied the fruit layer below, leaving the text with the fruit's texture. From there I changed the Hue of the image to a red so it would stick to my three colour pallet and put it into the page. I entered a sub-heading so the readers have an idea what the article is about. I decided to use a quote for the title because it gives the reader an insight to the article before they've even turned the page.  I then moved on to the double page spread of the article. 

I created the background for the article in PhotoShop and then layered it into inDesign, when making the double page I had trouble cutting out the background to put the band on a new one, I then decided to select a section of the background the band are already in, and drag it onto the  second page, this makes it look like the image has a large background, the line in which the image splits to the stretched image is visible but i can get rid of that with the use of the 'smudge' tool. Along with the triple page spread and the front cover, I started the second double page spread. 

This is the double page for my second DPS 'Phil Strummer's Rockstar Rules', I followed the same style as the Capture layour with the image on one page and it's background dragged onto the other page, with this one, I made the model's shadow leak onto the other page, this makes the page look less stretched and obvious. 

Project Monitoring 4

This week I finished all of my photo shoots, this meant I can now continue to make my pages in InDesign which I started this week. I measured all of my pages for the final piece using measurements from Kerrang! magazine, I edited the pictures of Joe for the DPS and filled in the other page with a background, I created the title for the article also on photo shop  I downloaded the font 'Crimes Times Six' for the title, this suits the article totally. 

The photo shoot that I completed was for the 3PS Capture article, for the photo shoot  I had an issue with the models for my shoot, three of the members of 'Capture' didn't turn up leaving me with only one model, luckily I had the day to find a three contingency models, this was a success and I took some images. I decided to use a wide-angle lens for some of the photos, this gives the images a bigger feel to them, doing this meant I had to have the models really close together. I experimented with a number of poses for the band to do, the image below will be used as my front cover, I like this image because they are all in close proximity and their instruments are on show, I held the camera above the models and fairly close to the front model's face, you may not be able to tell because of the wide angle lens. 

In the shoot, I took 161 photos of the models in total, this has given me a bigger choice of images when it comes to making the magazine, in total I will need to use around three of four images, but having that many gives me a better choice.