Project log - 25th January 2013

In my last lesson, I was working on my front cover for the whole lesson. After a talk with my teacher and some of my other class friends, I didn't feel like my front cover was as eye catching as I was aiming for. After doing my audience feedback I realised that all of my colours need to be brighter. Therefore I added a blue to the text. I colour picked from my models top so it looks so much more effective and bold.

Contact sheet

My contact sheet contained all of the pictures I had taken of my model. They are showing which images I had to chose from and shows them all laid out in a neat and organised way. 

First Draft

As this was my first design of my magazine, I had a lot to change and develop. Being new to the course, I wasn't totally happy with how my magazine was developing. This was my first draft within a few weeks. I had so many things which I needed to think about when making my first draft, things such as colour schemes, positioning of text/images, and which images I felt met the genre most. I thought this was crucial for me to work out quickly because it would give me a guideline of the vision that I have for my final magazine.

Project log - 23rd January 2013

In today's lesson I am planning on continiuing with my magazine second draft. As i have been experiencing some difficulties with scribd, I cannot upload some of my work, therefore I am waiting for my teacher to tell me whether to leave it or not. in the mean time, I am going to finish my third double page spread to make it look more effective and stand out more. I want it to be at a hgiher quality as my feedback was to make the page look more professional and use different ranges of images. As I have been told this, I re-done my photoshoot and I took them outside. Now I feel like I have more of a range images that I can use. I think this is more effective in comparison with my last image used on this page because it isnt as serious, therefore I feel like I am relating to my target audience more.

Sketches

The sketches in which I have designed are my initial thoughts of how I wanted my magazine to look. It was a rough idea of what my pages could potentially look like and how I could imagine myself making my magazine look. For certain aspects, I got inspiration from previous years magazines as I thought some of them were very eye catching and to me, stood out from the rest. As these were my first ideas of the layout itself, I wasn't 100% sure if it would go to plan or not. Therefore, I had to do the trial and error method. This really benefited me though, because I am new to the course and making mistakes allowed me to learn new techniques along the way of designing.

Project log - 10th January

Today I got my feedback on my draft magazine. I was told a lot of feedback thats going to benefit on my 2nd draft. I started changing and improving my magazine today, and I will continue at home, in my free periods and during lessons. I have 2 weeks to complete my second draft therefore I decided to do another photoshoot. I am going to take some pictures outside so there is more if a variety in my magazine. I am going to do my photoshoot tomorrow.

Contents Ideas

My contents ideas was done to plan out what I wanted to include in my contents pages. I had a rough idea of what I wanted to have on there anyway, from looking at other magazines such as kerrang and vibe. I have noted down the features I would want to include in a prezi document, which have all my inspired by the professional and successful magazines. As described within my document, I plan to elaborate on a lot of my points and fill out my contents ideas. These were just a few of the initial ideas I had.

Project log - 7th January

Today I am going to carry on developing new ideas for my magazine and learning new skills on indesign. As this was homework for Christmas holidays, I do think that it has helped me learn the easiest ways of doing certain things, for example cutting out someone from the background. Knowing this and carrying on to develop my skills will allow me to work quicker at school.

Project log - 7th December

Today I am going to carry on developing new ideas for my magazine and learning new skills on indesign. As this was homework for Christmas holidays, I do think that it has helped me learn the easiest ways of doing certain things, for example cutting out someone from the background. Knowing this and carrying on to develop my skills will allow me to work quicker at school.