As you can see, my skill on production has drastically changed, through the processes of progression on my product. It has developed over the time period given to make my magazine and the advantages uses different technology to present my magazine. Primarily using Photoshop, it has allowed my images to have special light effects and remove unwanted parts of the images. I haven't used any other types of technology to take my photo but only the SLR camera because it gives the photo the authenticity to able to add brush effects and other effects that has made the appearance of the raw photo used in my magazine. The first magazine I made lacked conventional structure to a real college magazine such as the slogans and more conent pages issues. I liked the image of front of the college and student I chose for the magazine because in some way it does apply to the convention like the location of the picture highlights what type of magazine genre is. I feel that the magazine needed more work to be done on it, to improve the appearance of the magazine. My rock magazine is a greate piece of work compared to my college magazine, there is a great transition on the appearance of the magazine and it follows the code and convention of the genre. I show a clear understanding of the layout, font, color scheme of my genre compared to my previous task. The layout of the final piece follows the basic and new idea of a layout i.e medium shot photo and a storyline on top of the masthead. However, I feel like that I could have done a unconvention twist to the magazine. The color scheme follows the three color rule in my magzine strictly but not in my front cover because there is a hit of another color. This makes it slightly unconventional like some other rock magazine and more attractive to the target audience. I feel the skills and knowledge of Photoshop improved from the begining and the different software and interweb softwares to help achieve on creating products like my magazine. From my first task, I have become fimilar to all the main software that it vital to use for my main production of my magazine, for example the colour scheme, photo shot and lay out; helping me finalise my product. Another example of improvement would be the types of shots used, has given and indepth insight into what the model should wear, the facial express and body posture. I had to move from the software that provided some range of fonts however non that suited the genre, so I had to download some from a specialist font website with the most choice of fonts. Both magazine masthead show a understanding on types of font used for those genre but also shows a understanding on two different genre e.g. the first task follows the pop convention and my final piece follows the rock convention.
In my content page, both the content differ a lot because of the different photo, colour and genre. The similarity they share is that the tilte is placed on top of the page and the layout are similar too because they have all the content numbers on the same side with a big main image uncropted. However, the first magazine isn't constructed in a conventional way becuase the colums are different sizes and photo is placed in a random place. The font sizes are too big which distracts the reader from the everything else in the page. The final piece has the title seperated from the content information and they are different font size to make the difference because it is conventional to all magazine genre. The content page has more page reference highlighting that there are more pages to the magazine whereas in the college magzine there is only six page reference. The image is another way of page referencing with a number aside it whereas the previous magazine just is a image not referencing to a page in the magazine. I would agree that the idea of using a image to reference to a page has help to make the content look more appealing. The colour scheme in the college magazine is too broad and vibrant which gives no professtional appearence to the it. The final piece has a more scheme to it because the color synergies with rest of the magazine which follows the codes and convention of all magazine and looks much more professtional because it's a continous color scheme and predictable. I feel the improvement I have made is recognisable due to it's professtional appearance and the skills I have learnt shows through the magazine. My key area of improvement would be to add more images with a different model to use as a page reference. But I have learnt the way of layout, folow the strict colour scheme to suit the genre of my magazine. The SLR camera allowed me to capture the raw photo so that it can be edited and cropped to make it similar to the inspirational magazine. I have leant how postures and facial expression can be identified with a specific genre and that props can also exaggerate the type of genre it is associated with.
