During this process i have learnt all about the useful technologies in this project. To construct my products i used Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, and i played around on InDesign. These computer softwares have greatly shown me how to edit photographs from my photo shoot and perfect my magazine cover etc, by using tools such as "Polygon Lasoo" and "Magic Wand". These two tools helped me crop pictures and remove any un-wanted shadow etc around the selected image. An example of this would be Poppy's arm/upper area- so to look respectable and not promiscious i had to use a dropper and paint tool to create a patch more of clothing and also the wand to crop her arm, as i mistakingly drew it with the black "paint".Paint Shop Pro i found easy (not only because i'm used to it at home, but because the layout is simple), and alot like photoshop (Which meant i could change the saved format to a PDF and carry on the work at college). It has "Layers" which you can move and add objects too, and also many other tools alike, like... a "Dropper","Mover","Selection", Zoom and again "Magic wand". For use of InDesign, i thought it vital to use specific tools like "Gradient" (which helped me decided whether i wanted a multi-tonal background, or transparency to the design cover, to have a elemental magazine). I used other tools like the "Direct Selection arrow" to practise my skills, which i them applied similarily to Photo Shop.
Learning these tool palettes has been vital in helping me produce a good "cutting edge (as my brief insisted) music magazine, that stands out and looks much improved from my pre-lim task, which i'll admit was very basic. I 've tried to use all elements of the softwares, to show skill in this topic.
Websites such as http//:www.photoshoplab.com have been useful to learning the tools step by step. Especially when there hasn't been a teacher on hand (at lunch etc).
My photoshoot was very substantial to what i feel the success of my magazine. The photoshoot was carefully thought out, by doing magazine cover image research and general magazine photo research.
Magazine Cover Research: This was done by selecting a few magazines which my target audience were interested in, or had the type of music they liked. I then did a spider diagram around each one pointing out a few key elements, like "Poses", "Background" and "how many models" etc. This helped me generalise and again look back upon my typical magazine conventions.
General Magazine Photo Research: I created another mood board which had pictures that i felt i could base my photos around. I had to think about composition and elements of props/clothing the "artists" in my magazine where going to use. I wrote on assitate paper above the picture and wrote what i liked, and felt i could construct my photoshoot around. An example of this would be; the amount of people in the photoshoot, and also the black sequin dress which i made one of my models wear, because i felt it expressed a party, youthful/glamourous personality which my magazine target audience would appreciate.
Photo minipulation/printcreens in my scrap book proves the above points.
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