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EvaluationJessica Parker
1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Masthead
Footer showing themes of magazine
Main cover lines
Price
Main medium close up image
Barcode
Flash
Limited Pallet
San serif fonts
Serif font
Barcode
Puff
Puff
Analysis of magazine cover
Main Image – In my main image I used a medium close up like the one in Red.
Masthead – I put the masthead in the 3 top squares in the rule of thirds. I also used a serif font and a purple
colour to stay with the theme.
Limited Pallet - The colours consisted of purple and blue and orange. I chose these colours as they stand out
on the plain background on my cover.
Cover lines – Throughout my cover lines I used a main cover line like the magazine red. For my main cover line I used a big bold serif font which stands out on the page as the other cover lines are a lot
smaller.
Flash – I used a flash on my cover unlike red highlighting the price which is effective as it stands out on the cover as it’s orange but it also fills up dead space on the cover.
Footer – Both my magazine and Red uses a footer at the bottom. This footer highlights the themes of the magazine which is effective.
Rule of Thirds – Throughout creating my magazine I used rule of thirds on the layout as its an effective technique as it puts the structure of the magazine in a professional look.
Puff – Both magazines use a puff under the masthead in the first left in the grid. The puff is used in a san serif font making it stand out under the masthead.
Analysis of contents page
Contents title
Date and issue no.
Article headings
San serif page details
Limited colour pallet
Pictures relating to articles
Contents Title – For my contents title I use the same serif font that is used on the cover of magazine keeping the theme of the
magazine consistent throughout.
Colour Pallet – For the colours on my contents page I kept the same limited pallet that was used on my cover keeping it consistent
with the cover. The colours that were used are blue, purple and orange.
Photos – The photo’s used on my contents page are appropriate as they all link in with the articles for example the photo of the gym links in with health heading and the article about the college gym.
Date and Issue no. – For my date and issue number I used a similar flash that was used on my cover. This gives the contents page a good effect as it is the only orange that is used throughout my
contents making it stand out.
Article Headings – To make my article headings stand out I used the cyan blue that was used throughout my cover but I also boxed the headings like on the contents page on the right. This gives the
headings a good effect as they stand out.
Page Details – For the page details of my magazine such as page numbers and article titles I used a san serif font but used blue for the page number and purple for the article titles. The san serif font
used is bold but is also used throughout the contents page making it consistent.
2. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this
product?
Photoshop
By using this software to create my magazine cover my ability to use this programme become more advanced. This was because I was using tools that I had never used before such as fx, magnetic lasso
tool, clone stamp and many more different tools. These tools allowed me to create my magazine cover to a professional standard. For example the clone tool allowed me to get rid of any marks in the
images that I didn’t want, the magnetic lasso tool allowed me to cut out background from the pictures and the fx tool allowed me to give my
cover effective fx around text and images.
Photoshop – Using effects on my front cover
I learnt how to put an effect around the text on the main cover line
making it easier to read against the dark
background.
I did this by clicking on ‘fx’ and then clicking
on stroke which bought up a menu.
The menu then allows me to choose the colour I
want the stroke but also the size. I could also change the opacity.
In the original image it had a line which I
wanted to get rid of and I did this by using the clone stamp tool.
I did this by using the tool on the
side menu. This allows you to
choose the colour you want by
holding down the alt key.
By clicking on the background it clones the colour that you clicked and then
allows you to start colouring in where
you want.
This is my final image without the line in the
background.
The menu at the top allows you to change the size of the brush and the hardness of the brush. The menu
also allows you to change the opacity.
In Photoshop I wanted to cut the background out
for this image and I learnt how to do this this by using the magnetic
lasso tool which is found on the Photoshop side
bar.
By learning how to use the magnetic lasso tool it
allowed me to cut unwanted bits out of my
images. The lasso attaches the edge when
you drag the mouse round what you want to
select.
As I learnt how to do this my ability to use this tool progressed.
InDesign
During the process of this project I learnt how to use the software as well as tools which I had developed through out making my contents
page. I used tools such as the pen tool and convertor design tool, eye dropper tool, fx tool and many more. By learning to use these tools I learnt new skills such as how to draw shapes as InDesign had a limited amount of shape, I also was able to use the same
colour I used in Photoshop by using the eye dropper tool as InDesign had a limited amount of colours as well as using effective
fx on my contents page.
In InDesign I couldn’t get the shape I wanted so I had to learn how to draw the shape with the pen tool which allows you to
draw any shape you want.
By using the pen tool it allows you
to draw the approximate
shape you want which can then
be edited.
I then learnt by using the
convertor point tool it allows you
to curve the edges that you
click on. By learning how to do this allowed me to create a
splat like shape.
By learning how to create a shape on InDesign
gave me the ability how to use the pen and
convertor point tools. This was the splat that I
created on my contents page.
As indesign has a limited amount of
colours I learnt how I could get the same colours I had used
from Photoshop into InDesign.
To get the same colour I went on to
photoshop and used the eye
dropper tool. By using this tool
allowed to select any colour on the
page that I wanted.
I then took the numbers that are highlighted and i put them in the same
box in indesign.
On the side bar on InDesign I clicked on swatches and typed in the same numbers that gave me the colour I wanted from Photoshop. Once I typed in the numbers it gave me exactly the same colour.