Unit 3 Final Production

Print Skills Audit



My Own Pictures

Before the project, me and some friends went out and decided to help develop our skills and have a bit of fun with the settings on the canon camera's. It was just to basically try out different techniques and to see what happens. I like this photo because the aperture is very low depth of field which means it is letting more light into the lens. The shoes are very focused compared to the background. I was difficult to get the aperture setting correct on the camera as we didn't have a great skill yet or know how to do it correctly. The little cup and the shoes in these aperture pictures look great in focus and i like how the background is blurry.

This picture seemed like the perfect opportunity to get a long shot image, especially with the nice background

In these pictures, I wanted to capture movement in my picture using slow shutter speed. The picture is took on an average digital camera though, but it still did work a little bit, and it captured the movement well. I like all the different colours that are captured and makes the photo look busy. The photo could look even better if it has a bit of editing in Photoshop to make the colours stand out even more.



Production Monitoring Blog 5th April

Last week I finally started finishing off the last little touches on Photoshop for my front cover and my double page spread on In Design. I feel that I have progressed a lot throughout this unit and my skills have gotten better at a lot of different things for example, sorting layers out on Photoshop and inserting text and images in In Desing.

I've also used different shapes for backgrounds for some of my text such as a circle shape for 'Exclusive Info!' to go in my double page spread. I got this idea from a fashion magazine, and I thought it has made it look much more professional. I have still being trying different fonts, to get the most appropriate one for my target audience and to make sure it goes perfectly with the genre of magazine. After a while and a bit of practice, you get used to Photoshop. I found it very difficult at some points, such as cloning the right layer and moving images around. I hadn't really encoutered any problems as such which were a disaster to my project, however I did have to ask for help as I got stuck on Photoshop a lot when adding an effect or something just would'nt go right. This is an advanatge though because I kept on learning new skills.

Because I am nearly finished my project, I just need to go over the whole thing, making sure every little detail is corrected and I can upload my final product. I need to proof read my article thoroughly too, as last time I realised that I had made quite a few spelling mistakes in it. I think that I have everything I need on the front cover and double page spread, just it may need tidying up and a bit more thoroughly structured to make it look more professional. Some problems I may encounter this week is just the fact that Photoshop and In Design go very slow and are time consuming when they're loading up. If anything goes wrong, I have my teacher to ask for help and Chris the technician who helps the computers run smoothly.

Production Monitoring Blog 29th March

This week I hopefully will have completed a lot of my double page spread and have had a lot of critisism from my teacher and peers. Last week I was thinking about different heading that would be used for my double page spread such as this one,

The font is quite funky and quirky that wil attract the youth, however it is not very girly and won't really catch the eye of the female target audience and the will just lose interest in the article. Last week and also this week I have been learning more about columns and how to use text flow to make the article go on through to other column boxes. I also have being able to use a drop cap to start of my article. Next time I come to work on my double page spread, I will do it mot quickly as I think it is taking too many lessons to get everything perfect and for it to look professional.

This is what my double page spread looks like so far. I had to change a lot around from my first idea and when I was drawing out the text boxes and image rectangles. I found out how to use the margins more easily too, they're very helpful and are a good way of getting everything which is on the double page spread accurate and in proportion. I am well on the way of getting it finished now and I hope to be done by next week. I have chosen the images that I am going to use and know exactly what I need to do. I have given my images on the double page spread a drop shadow to give off a bigger impact and it looks like it's jumping off the page, wanted to be looked at or read. I will try out different effects this week to see if I find a more suitable or better one, but I think I will probably just stick with the drop shadown effect.

Downloaded Fonts

 I have downloaded many different fonts for my final project of unit 3. I downloaded fonts such as 'a yummy apology' and 'gabrielle'. These fonts are very girly and very appropriate for my magazine mast head font. I also used these fonts in my double page spread for the headline and sub heading before the article. I chose these fonts because they were the most ideal for my target audience of 15-19 female teens. It was difficult at first to upload them to Photoshop, but once I learned how to do it properly and had some practice, it became much easier.

I also downloaded this font from http://www.dafont.com/ which I decided to do some editing on in my spare time to help develop my skills in editing text in different ways before it comes to editing my real unit three project. I followed a tutorial from the internet on how to do this effect which helped a lot. I enjoyed practicing my skills on this and I believe I could use an effect correctly now on Photoshop.