For the preliminary task, I used Microsoft Word to produce my magazine, as Publisher wasn’t available to me at home. I found Publisher was much easier to use as the text boxes moved easily and photos were applied quickly and able to be changed edited to some extent, which Word didn’t allow., as well as changing 'order' of the pages and different publications. I was able to include more content on a page and the variety of tools and options meant it was much quicker than getting frustrate at Word for not placing a photo in the correct place.
I have further developed my digital photography and the images produced in this magazine are to a much higher quality to those in the prelim mag. I made sure to include a variety of shots and distances and varying the costumes and setting to make it appropriate and interesting. For this task I realised I need to take more photos and to do multiple photoshoots allowing for a greater variety in photos and their content and style, giving me more choice when putting the magazine together. I had two different models, allowing each shoot to showcase their personality and the location and costumes also had an effect on this. For the preliminary task, I took one big shoot and then smaller, random photos to add in. With the current task, I took almost all the photographs in one space of time.
For the prelim task, I used PhotoShop to edit my photos but wasn’t very adventurous as I wasn’t very experienced with that programme. For this task, however, I used Paint.NET which I have been using for a while and this meant I could do more as I was more confident on it. My skills in this area have developed quite a bit as I discovered how to blur the background and make the figure stand out more. I used the lasoo tool to cut around the figures and then copy and pasted these cut outs onto a new layer (above the first). I then returned to the background layer and used gassian blur to make the background out of focus. I am more experienced with altering the levels now, as well, and used this feature more than I had in the preliminary task.
In this task, I have used Dafont.com a lot for new and interesting fonts as I felt the ones that came with publisher weren’t as artistic or interesting to be the masthead for a music magazine. I used much more fonts in this task than the last, though maybe too many at some points, but this has made the magazine look unique and less WordArt-like.
As I was creating a school magazine in the preliminary task, there were few magazines I could look at for convnetions and styles but wiht the music magazines, there are loads to choose from and compare. This means that I had to do more research into the different genres and used the websites much more to find information about the music magazines. This also meant that there is a wider audience for our magazines to appeal to, and therefore I was able to norrow down my target audience to be more specific than 'School kids ages 13-18'.
Overall, I feel my music magazine has a proffessional finish, compared to my school magazine and that overall it is a lot more niche and effective in targeting the audience.
I have further developed my digital photography and the images produced in this magazine are to a much higher quality to those in the prelim mag. I made sure to include a variety of shots and distances and varying the costumes and setting to make it appropriate and interesting. For this task I realised I need to take more photos and to do multiple photoshoots allowing for a greater variety in photos and their content and style, giving me more choice when putting the magazine together. I had two different models, allowing each shoot to showcase their personality and the location and costumes also had an effect on this. For the preliminary task, I took one big shoot and then smaller, random photos to add in. With the current task, I took almost all the photographs in one space of time.
For the prelim task, I used PhotoShop to edit my photos but wasn’t very adventurous as I wasn’t very experienced with that programme. For this task, however, I used Paint.NET which I have been using for a while and this meant I could do more as I was more confident on it. My skills in this area have developed quite a bit as I discovered how to blur the background and make the figure stand out more. I used the lasoo tool to cut around the figures and then copy and pasted these cut outs onto a new layer (above the first). I then returned to the background layer and used gassian blur to make the background out of focus. I am more experienced with altering the levels now, as well, and used this feature more than I had in the preliminary task.
In this task, I have used Dafont.com a lot for new and interesting fonts as I felt the ones that came with publisher weren’t as artistic or interesting to be the masthead for a music magazine. I used much more fonts in this task than the last, though maybe too many at some points, but this has made the magazine look unique and less WordArt-like.
As I was creating a school magazine in the preliminary task, there were few magazines I could look at for convnetions and styles but wiht the music magazines, there are loads to choose from and compare. This means that I had to do more research into the different genres and used the websites much more to find information about the music magazines. This also meant that there is a wider audience for our magazines to appeal to, and therefore I was able to norrow down my target audience to be more specific than 'School kids ages 13-18'.
Overall, I feel my music magazine has a proffessional finish, compared to my school magazine and that overall it is a lot more niche and effective in targeting the audience.
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