Equipment used to produce my coursework

These are the equipment I used to produce media coursework. They involve a MacBook Pro and Lumix DSLR. The use of my own equipment has been a huge advantage for me, because it meant that I could do the research and planning at college in my lessons, and then actually do the practical work in my own time.

Choice of three content pages

Personally, I preferred the middle one, but I was torn between the first and second, so I mixed them together, which I think makes it look better, this is what I developed...

i'm going to ask people which one they prefer, and they can leave their comments below.

So, which one do you prefer?

More contents page changes

I was experimenting with layout of pictures and text, and I simply moved some pictures all together, and made the background darker. I think this looks better than the other one, because it's more organised.

Mock up sunday

Today I spent part of the day looking at my ideas for my contents page, and trying to work out what I didn't like about it. I found out that I didn't like that there wasn't much text on the page, which made it look less professional, because the pictures were on there own, which made them irrelevant. So I went back to the drawing board, to decide where I could include more text, which linked with the pictures. This is what I developed....

This is only a mock, but basically what I think my contents page should look like. I added a 'Feature' section, because I think that this is a fundamental part of any contents page, because this is what tells the reader what to expect to see inside. I like the use of text and images in this version of my contents page, because they are well balanced and easy to read, and they cover the main points in my magazine. The red square in the photo above is simply to show where a picture will go, as soon as I have taken it. The picture will consist of a small group of people, which will be a band featured in the magazine, because I think that I need to include some kind of band to make the magazine theme more believable.

I also decided to shrink the "contents" title and move it in the corner of the page, because I don't think people really need to see that it is a contents page, because they most likely will already know.

To Do List:

More changes

I reworked some pages once again, and I am happy with the double page spread now, although I will need to add more pages to the contents, and perhaps add more text to relate to the images, which is next on my todo list.

This double page spread consists of more text, and a darker background around Jeremy Stone, which stops before it reachers the smaller pictures, which helps break up the page. I used the lasso tool combined with the eraser in photo to cut Jeremy Stone out of the dark background. I changed the colour of the introduction to my article, so this breaks up the article. I also added a quote from my article, and placed it above Jeremy Stone's head, which helps fill out the gaps on the page, and makes the page look a lot better arranged.

How do the production practices appeal to the target audience in ‘This is England’

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Rework of magazine:

1) 2)

After listening to some feedback, I decided to try to use a different picture for my magazine cover. I also used a different font title, just to test out some of the fonts included in photoshop, rather than a font I previously downloaded. In my opinion I like the second one better, because it's more original, and spicy, however I wasn't exactly sure. So I went and got some feedback from others in my media class, and other people who don't take media. The minority agreed with me, which made me feel more confident that this was the correct image to use for a front cover.

Adding pictures to double page spread

I decided that I didn't like my double page spread, because it didn't seem to have a specific edge I was looking for, So I decided to go back to and rework some objects, and add more pictures. This is what I came up with:

I added 2 more pictures over some fake wire, which I drew on photoshop, and used the emboss tool to make it look authentic.

I like the look of this, better to my previous double page spread, however I plan on adding more text, and perhaps some kind of background to the main image, to show some cutting out skills, and to make the page look more effective.

Developing ideas for new contents page

When I come up with ideas, it helps to actually produce mock ups on photoshop, and these are a few I have done so far...

(Just a mock up)

I think that this layout is better than my previous one, because it includes more pictures, however I don't like the colour scheme, because it makes the text less vibrant and less obvious, because the background contains too much white.

I think what my contents page needs is a picture of a band, because currently, its all solo artists. I need to show more skills with photoshop also, I will do this by perhaps cutting around a complicated image, and changing the background, which will demonstrate 1 or 2 more skills. I will also add more pages to my magazine, because 21 pages just isn't enough.

Questions