EVALUATION

Personally i feel that this task was successful for me, i have improved greatly when it comes to using photoshop and i have learnt many more skills within it that i can use to make something better. This task was in a way quite challenging, this was because you could make rough pages for your magazine but they would look tacky and wouldnt look proffessional or like a magazine, this meant that i would go further into detail when using photoshop and different parts of it. When i had completely finished all of this i then had to do a further in detail evaluation on a online software called Prezi, to see my further evaluation where i dig deeper into my magazine click this link.  http://prezi.com/weepm9bccks1/edit/#2_4299178

Thank you for reading all of my blogs,

Ricky Lawrence.

CONTENTS PAGE

This image shows my contents page, i feel the page looks good with the magazine title alone the side of the page as it doesnt look overloaded at the top of the page where it says contents page, its good that the contents page heading is in white as it doent make the page look like there is too much red on the page, i kept the glow around the edge of writing as this matched with the magazines style. The red titles and page numbers stand out on the pages and breaks it all up a bit and i feel that its a good feature with the text about the magazines social networking as this is all up to date with technology and it will give readers another way to keep in touch with the magazine.

Ricky Lawrence.

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

This is my double page spread, this is the new version with the changes that i made to the photos and how i merged them together. I feel that it all works well together, i have stuck to the colour codes of the magazine using red for the questions and as a stroke around the page heading, i took a quote from one of the answers of the band and put it over the images, i feel that this gave it a proffessional look and made it stand out, i used a curved font for the band members name as it looks like a signature from the band members. The band photo underneath the induviual photos works well as it shows the band in action at a gig, all of text is level along the left side of the page this gave the page order and structure and it didnt look as if all the text had been scattered on around the page.

Ricky Lawrence.

FRONT COVER

This is the front cover for my magazine, i am pleased with this i personally feel that it looks quite proffessional, the image used is black & white which really helps as it makes all the writing stand out and the title looks bright and powerful. All of the writing on this page has a stroke around the edge which adds to how it stands out and looks, which makes it easy for the text to be read at a quick glance without having to really concentrate in order to read it. The text 'Tombstone Blues' is the bands single which you are able to download from the double page spread. I feel the the colour codes for the cover stories stand out well and then the colour codes of 'Tombstone Blues' is the opposite so this meant the colours wouldnt be random and they would look of some relevance.

Ricky Lawrence.

For my lesson today i used it to make any changes that i felt needed to be made and took in any advice from my teacher in order for me to make improvements,

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
i changed the whole layout of all the pictures on the double page spread, i merged the all together into a square so they were all with eachother, and then i removed the bands name/logo image and had a shot of all the band together playing at a gig which was stretched across the bottom underneath the band member photo's. I had to add the page numbers onto this double page spread and i added a small copy of my magazine title next to my page number at the bottom of the page.

FRONT COVER
For all the text on my front cover i added a stroke in order for it to stand out more efficiently, a stroke is just like an outline around the text i chose just to use a black on for all the writing as it seemed to give the writing its on background so the writing wasnt clashing with any of the images colours.

CONTENTS PAGE
The change i made to this page was the page numbers, i made the page numbers red so they would be a different colour to the page headings, meaning that they would stand out more and it would grad the readers atention quicker/easier (it would look like, 4. PAGE HEADING).

I am happy with todays changes as i feel that when i look at a 'before' and an 'after' of each page the changes look much better and the magazine looks more proffessional and like a published magazine with them.

Ricky Lawrence.

In the first lesson of my double today i completely finished off my double page spread, i had arranged all the images how i wanted to be with the 4 different band members names next to each of their photo's and had an image of the bands name/logo underneath those images. I chose to only write up 4 of my questions on to my double page spread as if i was to use all of them they would be too squashed together, and if i wanted to have them all on together but avoid them being sqashed up it would mean that the text would have to be a really small font which wouldnt be easy to read for the reader, so i chose to have less of the question and at a good size for them to be read. I added a smart phone barcode symbol onto my work which i got from the internet as i though this would be good as this is good for the youth as the majority of them would have these phones and could use this as they could get a free single from it. i chose that the headings of each question would be red this is because it meant that the text was broke up a bit and it clearly showed where there was different questions. and the colour of the used font was a mix between a white/cream colour. I used the second lesson to review each of my pages in order for me to see if there were any changes that i would wish to make as i would be doing that in the next lesson.

Ricky Lawrence.

For todays lesson i made a start on my on my double page spread, i got the title on the page i used the same style as the title on my magazine for the page heading, and i just wrote a short introduction about the band and who they were adn what they were about. At the beginning of the lesson i had trouble using the software as i had to use a different page layout as it would have to be a double page spread (double the size of the other pages) and i would need to mark the centre of the page to ensure that i would have any of my images or text passing over the middle, and i also had to try and find the same background that i selected for my contents page so it would mean that all the pages matched and linked in together. All the photos that i chose to user were added onto the page but they werent in any specific arrangement, i started to write up and add the interview to the page. I chose a bright red for my title as this matched the titles of the previous pages so you could look at each induvidual pages and know that they all belonged to the same magazine. Apart from the slight problem i had using photoshop at the beginning of the lesson i feel that i got quite a bit done today and i am happy as i am able to see how it is all starting to come together and start looking good now.

Ricky Lawrence.