Monday 14th March- On the first day of designing my rough cut I started with my front cover, to guide me through the rough cut stage I used my magazine draft to assist me along the way. Firstly I started with the title, but placed it on the background layer which meant I couldn't move it. However I did like the font style. Secondly I used the line tool to draw red and black lines coming in from the sides of the page, to separate out what would be my sub-headings; this worked really well but did take a long time to do.
Tuesday 15th March- Still working on my front cover I moved on to the banner, which I placed along the bottom of the page. This was tricky to do, as I had to think of a few ideas before I could get it laid out properly but I decided to take out the red triangles as this would take too long to create. To create the 1/2 circle I used the circle shape tool which gave me a full circle, then moved it to the bottom of the page to give me the 1/2 effect. Furthermore I also added text to the sides of the banner by using the text tool, I also use the font icon to change my font, so it would be similar to the others. On Tuesday night I also went to see a band called Iron & Wine who I was planning to take photos of for my contents page, these images turned out really well showing the gig performances in a natural environment.
Wednesday 16th March- After changing the fonts and sizes of the banner, I moved on to the sub- heading text which would be placed on both the right and left hand side. I only used two fonts, the Arial and the Times New Roman so my cover wouldn't look to jumbled, after I worked on getting the sub heading colours correct; by making some red and some black to make the cover more creative. This now formed the basic body for my cover, with only the image left to be transferred on. (photos will be taken on Thursday 10th March)
Thursday 17th March- I now started on my contents page, where I took inspiration from NME and Q. I started by using the shape tool again and inserted a red box along the top fifth of the page. After I added black lines around this box to make the heading more prominent. Following on from this I added 4 square boxes in the bottom 4 fifths where I would be putting band images in. Afterwards I again used the square shape tool to place smaller squares in certain corners, showing what page number the advertised bands would be on; using a mixture of Arial and Times New Roman again as a more modern touch. As Thursday was the day when the white screen was being put up in the media room I took the chance to take my music magazine photos, I started off doing my 3 long shots with the main singer in the middle and the other two band members on either side. Following on from this I then asked my models to do other poses to vary what I put on each page. Furthermore I then started doing the outside shots, backing on to a tree giving off a more urban feel, these images were also long shots to show the bands stance, expressions and clothing.
Friday 18th March- At the end of the first week I was about half way through my contents page, all I needed to add in were my images and a brief interview relating to Lady Gaga. I firstly started by researching into Lady Gaga, seeing if she had a new album out or if she is going through a rough spell. I had a lot to write about which gave me inspiration on what to put in my double page spread interview from The White Fight, this only took me 30 minutes to write giving me the last half of the lesson to photoshop my front cover image. After opening photoshop 4.0 I opened my images and picked out the one which related most to my draft, I had a few to choose from but ended up going for the mid shot of the lead singer (Josh) at the front and drummer and guitarist (Matt and Euan) behind him. Firstly I used the clone stamp to erase any spots or grazes on there faces, then moved on to using the brightness/contrast and Hue to make the image clearer and look more professional. After clicking the tick I then used the arrow keys to accurately move my image just above the bottom banner, while being layering it behind the sub heading text.
Monday 21th March- At the start of the second week of my rough cut I moved on to photo shopping the two images I was going to use from the gig I went to the Tuesday before. I started off with the Daniel Moore image which needed to be brightened, I used the brightness/contrast and shadow/lightness tools for this edit. I then moved onto my image of the band Iron & Wine which was a lot brighter from the lights that were present at the time. Not much had to be done with this image, apart from cropping it down so it would fit in the contents space provided.
Tuesday 22th March- I was just putting doing some final edits to my contents page e.g. my extra box in the bottom left hand corner and my White Stripes band info box. This took the majority of the lesson to put together.
Wednesday 23th March- I then started on my double page spread by photo shopping the image. I firstly started by fading the right side, to make it look connected to the interveiw. This was a time consuming task as it took time and effort to look professional. Secondly I worked on the heading 'The White Fight', this looked good as the font went with the style of the band. To add an extra touch I made some of the tree branches look like then were coming through the letters, this just added an extra bit of creativity. (But I have now realised the title could be a little larger)
Thursday 24th March- I then moved on to the CD cover design, I chose to make the image saturated and highly contrasted, so it almost blended into the black cover background. This turned out looking really good and the font for 'Heart of Gold'; the CD name looked very good also. I then moved on to the first paragraph pf my interveiw, by giving a breif outline on how the band came about. I researched into owners of music companys e.g. sage and o2 arena to make up a story of how the band were recognised, by doing this it made my story seem a lot more belivable and realistic.
Friday 25th March- I was carrying on with my intervew and started on questions that I would be asking the band. This was harder than I thought, so I got inspiration from looking at 'Freshly Squeezed - channel 4', to see what questions they asked the bands. I decided to put the questions in a red box, so they could stand out while matching the 3 colour scheme.
Monday 28th March (Final day for Rough Cut)- For my final day I only had to write up two ore questions plus the bands answers and organise the collums; as they looked slightly messy. While doing this I experianced some problems with the computer (freezing and saying there is a problem with 'RAM'), this deleted all my work that I hadn't saved earlier maening I had to re-write many questions out again on more than one occasion.
Finally I finished the DPS and only had to transfer all 3 across to the '12C Rough Cuts Folder' which was in the Media Disc Box as a JPEG. After doing so I re-saved another copy of all 3 in my own folder but as a accessable photoshop document, so I could go back and edit for my final draft.
No comments:
Post a Comment