Evaluation.

For this project I had to design my own magazine front cover, contents page and article. For this I had to pick to cover music or fashion. I chose music as I read more music magazines than fashion ones. For the article I had to produce an introduction, 8 questions and a conclusion. All of these had to be a minimum of 100 words. This project took around a month to complete. I first wrote up the article and then took the images. I think this was a good order to do things as the article took longer to do than taking the images and editing. I kept the editing quite subtle. I just upped the brightness and took the contrast down a little bit to make the models hair stand out more and come across as brighter and then just played around with the colour balance but nothing to make it unrealistic as I wanted to keep it looking classy.

As we had to take our own images, we had a lot of freedom with this. I chose to take my images against a white background as I wanted my magazine to be quite sophisticated and clean, I didn’t want it looking too cluttered. To suit the personality of my model, on the pictures she’s quite reserved and from looking at the pictures you can’t really tell her personality. The image I’ve used for the front cover is the image that everybody is going to see first so I wanted it to be quite stand out ish so I chose an image of her staring the camera down to try and describe the vibe she gives off. Quite blunt and confident.

I experimented with all different angles so I had a variety of images to choose from. All together I took around 40 images. I edited and used six of these images in total.

I found this project relatively easy to do but if I was to do it again, there are some things I would change. The first thing I would change is the font on the front cover. I like it but if I had the chance to change it then I’d pick a clearer one to use. The other thing I’d change is my images, I think they would have looked good against a background for example a forest type photoshoot where it’s still quite simple yet there would be a bit more going on and it would fit in with the theme.