Progress Monitoring- Week 5

Progress Monitoring- Week 5

Monday & Tuesday- These two lessons consisted of me working in Photoshop to design my contents page. I used the magazine Company as inspiration for my layout as well as a professional look. These two lessons were successful in that I only had a few things to add before my product was complete- I did this during a free lesson on Thursday. Below are the stages of my production:

This is the beginnings of my contents page, I created this in Photoshop and began with two background layers, one grey, one purple.

The blue box contains some of the content of my magazine.

I then added a pink brush stroke to separate some of the content

and to stick to the feminine colour scheme.

I then added more content and some text over the pink brush stroke. I also added a picture of one of my models to the right of the text.

 I altered the image slightly and added a second brush stroke- this time blue- to the right hand side of the page. This has "pg 22" written across it, giving an indication to my audience as to where this image is found in relation to the rest of my magazine. This is the final product of my contents page, which I completed on Thursday as homework.

 

Wednesday- I was excused from college for the day in order to visit a potential university.

Friday- Today I have written up the first draft of my fashion article. I have not yet completed this, so as homework over the weekend I will complete this and during Monday’s lesson I will ask a peer to read over it for me.

Overall this week hasn’t been that successful in terms of work load, as I missed Wednesday’s lesson, however I am aware of what needs to be done to catch up and am very pleased that I have now completed my contents page.

Progress Monitoring- Week 4

This week I challenged myself to do a lot of work and overall I think I did relatively well.

Monday- I worked on my health article and made quite a lot of progress, I then set myself the task of completing this during free lessons.

This is the beginning of my double page spread before I carried out the phpto shoot. I have used the same colour and styled banner running across the top of the page, as I did for my first article. This makes my magazine branded and appear professional.

After my photo shoot I placed one of the photos onto the first page to test it's appearance.

I then edited this photo in Photoshop. Using tools such as Auto Tone, Dodge, Brightness/Contrast, Healing Brush Tool, and more.

This was my product after inserting the new edited image and text. I added a breakout box and the main header as well as the kicker.

 

 

I then added quote inserts and a shape (bottom right) to fill the page. I also moved the image to the centre in order to break up the text and added a third column, which I think works well.

This was the final product of my health article.

 

 



Tuesday- today I began to work on my front cover. At the beginning of the year I created a mock up front cover for a women’s lifestyle genre. I used this mock up as a template and I think that this worked well and made my production a lot easier to do. (See below for the mock up front cover used)

I started the lesson by editing the image of Louise, this was done in Photoshop and didn’t take long.

The original image

This was the image after editing

Adding the masthead, banner and some sell lines.

Wednesday- I continued to work on my front cover, adding more sell lines, a bar code, etc.

 

Friday- I completed my front cover, here is the final product:

  

Homework- I was completed my health article as homework, however this proved difficult, due to computer problems I lost a big section of my English coursework before the deadline- therefore my priority outside of lessons this week has been to rewrite that, as it is due today (Friday). If I have any remaining time after completing my other products I may go back and edit this article further, however I am relatively happy with my product.

My fonts were all installed in a free lesson on Monday, therefore the production of my front cover was made easier.