Project Progress- Week starting 17th February

Even though it was half term this week, I still came in to college to catch up on the production of my magazine. I was able to create the layouts of all of my DPS' now that I had a definite and clear idea of what I wanted and had found a similar layout style in Cooler magazine.

These 2 images below are the first drafts of my fashion DPS. I am happy with how it is going so far but I just think they look too bare at the moment. I will probably have to write some text in order to fill in some of the spaces.

After thinking about this DPS for a while, I decided that I didn't like the arrows being there. I have also managed to write some text to fill in space. I have worked on this DPS for a long time this week and I'm very happy with it. I also wanted to make the pages more interesting and textured so this is why I added the paint splatters. To do this I had to re-learn how to install brushes from the website 'brusheezy'.

I have also started to create the contents page. I have found it easier to do this now that I have created the rest of my magazine because it means that I can get the same tone throughout the magazine and give it brand identity. I need to add more articles and somehow fill in the space in the bottom right quarter of the page, under the image.

I've added more articles and I think I have now finished the final contents page. Also, to fill in the space, I decided to create a letter from the editor. I think that this adds to the close relationship that the magazine has with its readers and also reflects it.

Now that I have finished the rest of my magazine I can focus on the Facebook article to get it into an aesthetic that I'm happy with.

This is the final version of this DPS. I added a breakout box to add more variety to the article in the range and sources of information it gives.

Project Progress- Week starting 10th February

This week I had my 'I Wear You Grandad's Clothes. I Look Incredible' photoshoot. I think it went very well and I am really happy with the outcome - I think I have some really good shots that will work well in my magazine.

I then concentrated on editing the images in Photoshop to make them look powerful and even more effective. I reinforced my skills of using the healing brush tool and the dodge tool to get rid of marks on the floor/backdrop and a few skin blemishes and to brighten up certain features such as her face. I also learned how to use cross-processing or 'curves' to change the colouring in the images. I learned that an S-curve gives the best outcome on images. It changes the colour and hue of the images without being too drastic. I used these techniques on all of my imagery so that they would be consistent and keep a house style. I wanted to create a soft, gentle, feminine tone without being too 'girly'. This is important to the values of my magazine as this is the feeling I want to create. I want to break away from the conventions of the women's lifestyle genre, but I also want the audience to know that it has been made for them - for their gender.

Here are the chosen, edited images that I want to use for my DPS: 

I also edited the interview with Andrew and put it into my DPS layout. I also selected the fonts that I will be using and added them in.

This is the final version of this DPS.

Having abandoned my original front cover, I have decided to create more of a conventional cover with a main image instead of lots of small images. I am going to use one of the images from the photoshoot I have just done with Kinga this week.

I chose the image and have been able to start editing it. Again, I cross-processed the image to give it a pink hue and I also extended the background so that it would easily fit into my inDesign document.

Having done front cover research I felt I had enough inspiration and ideas to make the front cover. This week I also managed to create the first draft of my front cover. I wanted it to look simplistic and also quite minimalist.

The second picture shows the font that was supposed to be used. However, due to licensing restrictions, it wouldn't be exported into a PDF format.