Final

photo negatives Idea

To make my double page spread a bit different i liked the effects of layers so i scanned old photo negatives onto my computer and to not make them so bold played with the opacity tool on photo shop to make them look washed like. I did this also with various photos on my double page spread. i am pleased with he out-come and think it looks quite artistic and unique.

Photograph filters

This filter gives a stained effect. There is quite alot of the yellow picking up on the image and the sun-light is enhanced dramatically. The background has almost turned to a blue colour which looks quite unusual.

This filters gives the photograpgh a vintage blurred effect which i think is quite differnet, yet i do no think it will be suitable for my magazine because it makes the photo look dull and old.

This effect, like the first enhances the sun-light quite a lot. It has also made the colouring qutie pale which could work well the with the calm mellow feel to my magazine.

In this image i have the filter has been darkened around the sides and generally all over quite a dark deep filter. I do not know wether this style will fit well with my magazine, unless i use the tool on photoshop to make the opicaity less so it fades the pictures slightly. So it is not too bold for the magazine.

I really like this filter as the sun - light has been enhanced, like various others, yet it has a more summer feel o the image which is what i wanted for my magazine.

This filter also gives a vintage effect and has the darker edges but not quite as bold as the filter before. The image is also quite contrasted although parts are pastel like colours, comparing well with the darker shadowed areas.

In this image the filter has brightened the overall image. This works well to keep the natural picture but also the enhance the colours to make them bolder, for exampe the green grass and then blue sky. It give the effect of summer to the photograpgh.

This image has a hint of a black and white filter throughout, yet the colour is still coming through. There is quite a lot of contrast in the filter and again the light has been enhanced which has make the model look a lot more paler. I do not think it gives the right bold, bright effect for my magazine and is quite dull looking.

These last few images are very similar and all,  i think, work very well with the enhanment of sunlight to make the images brighter and noticable.

Edited Artist Profile

After having feedback on my mock up magazine i decided it would be best to develop a new artist profile as i wanted to make my magazine more grown up and realistic.

Age - 20
Name – Rosa Gilmore
Songs released – Tonights The Night 
Albums Released – Say It How You Mean It
Gigs/Concerts – Local concerts and also smaller venues in Manchester, Portsmouth, Leicestershire and Birmingham
Favourite band/artists & musical inspiration – Icarus Account, Frank Turner, Tiffany Page, Taylor Swift, One Night Only, Vampire Weekend.
Favourite Quotation –

Teachers Feedback

Front Cover -
- more emphasis on the masthead
- check spelling
- decided whether I want the guitar in the shot
- add a bar code
- better separation between the model and the background [ layer model onto background so you can change opacity of background ]


Double Page Spread -
- add more to article
- article is 'wish washy' and young tone to it


Contents -
- spelling
- make page numbers fit contents
- too much blank space, use pictures to fill space
- have numbers on pictures to relate to each other


I think I need to concentrate on the article to make it more grown up and more interesting for the reader.
I also think that it might be better to have just one page on the contents, therefore there will hopefully be not alot of un-filled space making it look bare. I think I will have to keep checking my work over and over to make sure I do not have small spelling mistakes in my work as it will look un-proffesional. 
I think the picture on my front cover could be changed to a more grown up pictures, because as i've looking through my work i do feel the magazine had a 'childish' tone to it, as my feedback has made me realise this.


The feedback I recieved has helped me a lot to look back on my work and change parts which do not work well.

Ideas

This is an idea I had for my contents. I realised my first idea would be quit difficult to do because there would be a lot of space and it would be hard to fill.

Although if I was to use this idea for my final contents page I think I should add some more images at the bottom so there wasn't so much open space.
I have still used the patterned flowers on my contents because for my double page spread i could use them again to relate back tot  he contents and make it all link up together. I have used the same colours as the pattern for the colours of my font. I have also added a picture similar to the front cover to make it all link together.

This is an idea I hd for the front cover. It is quite differnet to my first idea, yet I think this works better because there is more darker areas where i can add more coverlines and make them stand out more. I have again used the colours for the coverlines as the same of the pattern in my contents page to link them all together.

More Photographs

These four photos are my favorite pictures. I think the sun n the background looks really effective and professional. I think that with some editing i could get the images looking how i would wanted them in my magazine. Also because parts of the image are quite dark they could look good as my front cover because i could add quite a lot of coverlines on my cover, unlike in my mock up cover the image was very light and had quite a lot of colour which made it difficult to add as many coverlines. 

These images also would look very effective on the front cover, yet i think it will be difficult to add cover lines because the models clothing is very dark so i would be hard to add text onto the different colours. If i wanted to used this image i could use photo shop and cut out the model and use edits and filters to tone down the darkness of the model and make the opacity better.

These images are quite natural which could work well in my magazine because that is the type of effect i was looking for in my magazine.

I think these type of images will work well in my double page spread. I could used a full page to put one of these images on or i could use half a page and add more smaller images as well.

These are also some of my favorite images. I would really like to include these in my magazine. I could used them as my contents page and just use the image as the background, or i could add them to the double page spread with various other images. I would prefere one of these images to be quite large in my magazine because otherwise i do not think it will have the right effect.

I like the colous on this photograph because it is bright and the blue sky makes the image a lot more 'summery' which will work well with my magazine because most of the image inspiration i put on my blog are photos took in the summer.

This image is quite serious which would look good in my magazine because most of the images are with my model with a happy expresssion. Although i do need different facical expressions to expand the pictures in my magzine. I really like the focusing on this image.

I am not sure on wether i like this image or not. I like the how the sun is shinning onto the models face, yet i am not sure on the pose in this picture.