Location, Props and Costumes

I used my home as my location to do my photo-shoot as here I was able to set up my studio lights. I had a full which wall which I used as a background for my model. I only used one prop which was a guitar amplifier and this is what she sat on and was also part of my picture. My model was dressed in a blue and white striped dress and a leather jacket. I thought the blue wasn't really a rock colour so I decided on a colour which would be and I would edit that later on when I came to designing my magazine. 

Audience Questionnaire Analysis

After doing my audience research it helped me to know what would be best to put in my magazine. When looking at my results, most of my audience was female between the ages of 16 and 20 so having this information helped me to know how to design my magazine in a way which would be suited to this age range. The majority of my research says that the preferred colour scheme was red, blue, white and black. I took this into consideration but once I had thought about it, the colours clashed and didn't work well together. So I looked at the second favourite colour scheme and decided that these colours worked better together (Yellow, red, white and black). Not only this but these colours are more suited to a rock/rock-pop magazine which means my magazine will look more professional. 

Magazine Publishers

Evaluation Question 1

Contact Sheet of original images

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My target audience would mainly be in the band E on the demographic table. Band E is where you are unemployed, a student or a casual worker but some may also be in band D which is semi skilled and unskilled manual workers. In the psychographic table, my target audience would be aspirers. My audience seeks status and are orientated to image and appearance and are also into fashion.
The qualities I have implied for this group are that although they may seem grungy, they would also be good people.

Evaluation Question 3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 7- Looking back at your preliminary task (the college magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I used my different pieces of technology when taking my images for my magazine. I used:

·         Nikon D3200 with a 55-300mm lens

·         Tripod

·         HP Laptop

·         2 studio lights with white umbrellas

·         White backdrop

I used a white backdrop so that my background was one solid colour. This made it easier to edit on Photoshop. I painted around my model using the paintbrush tool and then selected the background area and deleted it so this just left me with my model.

I used a tripod so that my images did not turn out blurry when I took them.

My two studio lights which white umbrellas helped to get a softer flow so  my images were not so harsh they also gave better lighting as I was shooting inside and the natural light was not enough to get the effect I wanted whereas the studio lights did.

I edited my images on both a website and on Photoshop. The website which I used is called ‘Befunky’ and on here I balanced out the contrasts and tones. On Photoshop I changed various adjustments but mainly I changed my models dress colour from blue to red as this then made her clothes coordinate better with my magazine colour scheme.

The Photoshop tools which I used were:

·         Magic Wand

·         Crop

·         Spot Healing Brush

·         Paint Brush

·         Horizontal Type

·         Eraser

·         Opacity

·         Rectangle

Magic Wand- This tool helped me to remove backgrounds I didn’t want so that I only had the most important part of my image left. I can then move this part of the image over to another background without making it look messy.

Crop- I used the crop tool to get rid of any negative space and to remove parts of images which could not be deleted by the magic wand tool.

Eraser- I used this tool to remove small parts of my image which were hard to reach with other tools. This came in handy when I had to colour the stripes in on my models dress because the lines were very small so when the paintbrush went over the line I could easily erase the mistake and this was easy because I can change the size of my eraser and that way I can remove the unwanted parts.

Spot Healing Brush- I used this tool to remove any slight marks my model has on her skin. This made my image look clearer and more professional.

Rectangle tool- I used this tool to colour my background on my front cover. I made sure that the rectangle was a block colour and then dragged it to cover my A4 page. This then changed my paper colour.

Paintbrush- I used this tool to soften the edges of my main cover image. There was a slight white and green line around my model so I lowered the opacity of my black paintbrush and painted around her to get rid of the outline.

Horizontal Type- I used this tool to put text onto my magazine.

Evaluation Question 5

Target Audience Question 4