Diary Entry 15

I've finished editing my front cover final draft. I've now moved on to my contents page final draft. I chose the image I wanted to use for my background, however, i was out of focus. I didn't have any time to reenact the shot and the other shots weren't as good in terms of the models' pose, so I decided to make it black and white. The black and white effect actually made the page look better and more interesting. After I edited the image, I came up with putting the page names and descriptions around my model. I thought this would create a more quirky and fun vibe for my contents page because usually contents pages are quite boring for readers to look at. I also took another picture of one of my peers so I could include it on my contents page. I thought an image of someone other than my main model would create more versatility and seem more professional. I enjoyed doing my contents page very much because I liked experimenting with different ways I could present the page numbers and page descriptions,

Double Page Spread 3 Draft

Double Page Spread 2 Draft

Double Page spread draft 1

Front cover draft

Contents Page Draft

Diary Entry 14

I've just finished all my double page spread final drafts. I've been using my free periods and staying after school and also working from home to complete all my final drafts. The next draft I finished was my front cover. I did most of this from home but chose the image I wanted to use the day before. I knew the main direction I wanted to take for my front cover. I knew I wanted to include red, white and black and to use a deeper coloured red because when I experimented with a bright red, it looked quite cheap and would not appeal to my target audience. When doing one of the sell lines, I realised some of the band names looked quite plain and boring, so I tilted them to make them more interesting and attractive.

Diary Entry 13

I have been working on my double page spread final drafts. I used my sell lines and ideas and my drafts for inspiration when making my spreads on Photoshop. Initially, I only wanted to do two double page spreads but because I had lots of different images that I wanted to use, I decided to do another double page spread with a pull quote. I enjoyed doing all the double page spreads because it allowed me to use really different shots that I took when I did the Photo shoot.

Diary Entry 12

Today I have been doing my first double page spread final draft. I chose 2 or 3 images that I would consider for my double page spread and asked my peers which ones they preferred.Once my peers chose which image they thought was the best, I started working on the spread. I added the title 'OUR VALENTINE' and edited it and added shadow effects to it to make it more interesting and appealing. I then added a little paragraph of writing and edited the font and colour for it to make it attractive.

Diary Entry 11

Lately I have been finishing off my time lapse video for my indoor photo shoot. I rendered it which took some time due to my limited amount of disk space on my school account, however I eventually got it rendered and uploaded it on YouTube and put it up on my blog.  I also scanned in my double page spread drafts, front cover draft and contents page draft. Hopefully I will do another set of drafts on Photoshop to get a better idea of what direction I want to go in for my magazine.