Final Article Pages

Final Contents page

Final Front Cover

Teacher Assessment

Front Cover:

*The puffs on the page are too long – they should not be full sentences but punchy and eye-catching.

*Does your magazine have a slogan?

*Make your buzz words stand out more.

*This is the first edition – how are you promoting it to the audience?

Contents:

*Some of the images appear to be squashed – make sure that you resize effectively

*Consider taking more photographs on location rather than just having studio photographs. All the images on the page are mid-shots with little thought about mise-en-scene. By going out and taking photographs you will have a better range.

Article: 

*Check all spellings as Photoshop will not do this for you.

*The main body of text is too big. Remember that magazine pages are slightly smaller than A4 so you will need to reduce the size by at least one third. Also, some of the questions are in gold but others aren’t – correct this.

*Page numbers are needed. 

Peer Assessment

Peer Assessment 1: 

Front Cover:

• Cover: Good use of puffs, however, the text should be integrated with the text more. Maybe, there could be more puffs around the main artist on the front cover.
• Super Impose: You could super impose the main person in front of the title, to make her stand out and bring more attention to the magazine.
• Graphic Image: The graphic image and the text could be a little bigger, to entice people to purchase your magazine.
• Title Block: You could try smoothing out the title block so that it looks like it fits in with the main image and puffs on your front cover.
  
  

Contents:

• Colour of headers: I do like how the colours of your headers are the same as the colours on your title block, however, maybe the colours for your headers could be darker, to make them stand out against the light background of your page.
• Secondary images: Perhaps you could have signatures to go with your images; so that it doesn’t look too plain, like you did with ‘Tiana Taylor’.

 

Article: 

• Article Pages: The layout of the magazine looks very professional, which really helps me gain an idea of who your target audience is. However, some of the questions you asked in your magazine article haven’t been highlighted so it looks like the person being interviewed is asking themselves the questions.
• Spelling errors: You made a few spelling mistakes, don’t worry it’s only a few! ‘Rendering’ and also, in a few sentences, you typed ‘I’ in lowercase instead of capitalising it.
• Quotes: Perhaps you could have one or two more quotes on the images, so that you have more integration of text with the images, otherwise it is a very good article and throughout the magazine, the language is very formal.

Peer Assessment 2:

Front Cover:

Cover: To improve you can put the price down by the barcode make the buzz word Exclusive more Exclusive than it is by maybe making it bigger and bolder possible a different font or have a different background. The words ‘Exclusive interview with Jazmine Sullivan’ is smaller than the other puffs on the front cover so maybe you should make it bigger and then make the artist name within the sentence big instead of having her name twice. Make the bar code smaller and maybe move is to the other side of the page and move the graphic image to wear the bar code is but make it bigger.

Contents:

Contents: the picture of ‘Jazmine’ at the top of the page looks squashed maybe retake or resize picture so it’s not so squashed. I like the fact that you put a picture of the chief Editor and a comment from her to the readers.

Article: 

Article Pages: in the first bit of your article you say that her ‘hair is worn loose in her signature curls’ this means that her fans may be expecting her hair to be loose and in curls but in the pictures her hair is in a bun so you might need to change that. In the first question there is a mistake as it says ‘what is the name of you first album and why did you named it this?’. Make all the questions the same colour and not the same colour as the quot. Start a new line after the question so it is clear when the artist is speaking. The quote’ Heart Rendring intense and powerful’ the word Rendring is spelt incorrect it is spelt Rendering. The end sentence you have put ‘she’s a gifted person who’s is down to earth’ there is a mistake in this sentence as it doesn’t make sense. The last sentence ‘There hasn’t been a confirmation date yet.’ I don’t think that you really need this sentence. I like the fact that at the end you put the interviewers’ name and photographers name at the end of the article.

Self-Assessment

Front Cover: What I should improve on my front cover. The puffs on my front cover I should add more text so that it looks more integrated, so I should add puffs around my central image, so that it could balance out my front cover, also the buzz word “exclusive” I should make it more effective by making it bigger and bolder or maybe a different font so that it can stand out because it’s smaller than the other puffs. I will move my price near the barcode and make the barcode smaller. I will make my graphic image bigger so that it will attract my audience to buy my magazine. I will also try to smooth out my title so that it fits in with the main image and puffs on my front cover. This is what I will be doing to improve my front cover.  

Content’s page: On my contents page I should improve on is focusing on resizing my main artist picture because she currently looks “squashed” so I should therefore resize the image. I will also improve on the colour of my title block; I should make the colours darker so that my title block will stand out. I will also add in signatures from the artist on their image so that it does not look too plain. This is what I will be doing to improve my contents page.  

Article pages: Improving on my article page, I will highlight all the question’s so that my audience will not get confused, also it will make the question standout from the white background. The spelling’s in my article I will double check that it’s spelt right and not wrong, I will also make sure that my “I” are in capital. I will reread my magazine so that it makes sense and change some of the sentences so that my audience will understand and expect things, for example where I wrote in my first paragraph was a description on how Jazmine Sullivan looked on that day “hair worn loose in her signature curls” I will change this to how she looks like in the photo shoot. I will also add in more quotes it will have more integration. This is what I will be doing to improve on my article.  

Double page article draft

Content's page draft

Front Cover Draft

Reason of selecting images

Front Cover
The photograph that I picked for my Front Cover. The reason why I choose this particular image is because it matches with my front cover layout and also I prefer this kind of shot than mid-shot or close up shot to be my front cover. Also because my model is positioned near to the right side whereas on my mockup draft I want my puffs to be laid on the left side and so since the model is positioned near the right side it will balance out my front cover, so my puffs would be on the left side and the model is on the right side.

Contents
The reason why I picked this image is because for my contents layout I wanted close up or mid-shot images of artist to show the expression of their face. Also that all the contents images can fit within the small section. 

Article All these images placed below I choose them for the Article pages, the reason why I picked these images are because the music studio images shows her singing expression showing the audience that she works hard, she's independent & a true black musician who believes in herself and also that she's devoted in her music career. The studio photo shoot shows her happy side and showing the readers that they should be happy on who they actually are and not to pretend to be someone else, showing the women power. 

Editing my images

Second article page edits

Before 

After

The edits that I used for my second page article images. On my second article page I used the same edit to all the images on the page. I used photoshop to edit my images, the first thing I did was to crop my image because there are parts on the image I did not really need. After I cropped out my image I then sharpen my image, I sharpen my image because the sharpen tool makes the image pop out more than the original image it make the edges in the picture appear more defined by darkening the darker pixels and brightening the brighter pixels. This creates a crisp edge between light and dark portions of the image, giving it more contrast. This is why I used the sharpen tool to make the image pop out more. When I finish sharpening my image I then move on to using the Lasso tool which create a selection on where I want to work/focus on, I select around my model, after I finish drawing around the model I then click on inverse which will invert selection, because I used the lasso tool around my model which is positioned in the middle, the inverse will make that only circle i've drawn around is not to be selected but everything else is. I then click on levels, I used this because this tool can move and stretch brightness level, it's three main components are black point slider, mid-tone slider and white point slider, using this gives the image a range of edit, it can give lower contrast, higher contrast, stronger highlights & no pixel at full brightness. I wanted my image to have a higher contrast so then I moved the histogram image arrow towards the white point slider.  I then flatten the image out, after I click on the curves tool which is similar to the level tool. However the curve tool there are two main areas which are output tone and the input tone, the input receive less contrast, whereas the output tones gets more contrast, I made sure that it looked like an s-curve, s-curve adds more contrast to the mid-tones into the shadows and highlights. After I finish using the curves tool I then flatten the image out. I then use the Gradient map tool which gives filters into the image, I choose the violent and orange colour, the reason why I picked this is because I wanted it to give the vintage colour look, I then click on soft lighting this is where i can adjust how much of the colour I want on the image, to get the perfect vintage colour. This is the last tool I used to edit my images.

Edits 

The cropping tool is the last icon, this is to select the only area I want to focus on. The Lasso tool at the top is to help me circle the area where I want to focus on.  
The menu which shows the levels, curves & gradient map tool. Left is the Level tool where I can adjust the contrast. Bottom is the gradient map tool which gives filter into the image and I can adjust the filtering lastly the curve tool which is on the right, this is where I can adjust the contrast, highlights and shadows of the image, creating the s-curve. 

This is the Sharpen tool, this tool is to make my image stand out by adjusting the amount and radus.

Front, Contents & first Article edits

Before 

After

The edits I used for my Front Cover, Contents & front article image are the same edits. The first edit I used was the sharpen tool, this is because my original image did not stand out, the sharpen tool makes it stand out and makes the pixels brighter. After I sharpen my image i then go on the contrast and brightness tool to adjust the contrast and brightness, to give my image an uplifting colour to make it stand out. The edits I used was simple, this is because i did not want to add anything else but give the image brightness.