Blog entry 1

blog entry 1

This week I scheduled that I would achieved many tasks in my lessons and outside of lessons.

In my first lesson I scheduled that I would receive feedback on my blue folder so I could improve some of my work. I did manage to receive some good feedback in this lesson and started on improving work such as my treatment which needed some more detail in the last few sections. The last few sections included, image control, language control, colour control and layout control objectives. I believe I can produce a treatment to much better standard due to the amount of research I have taken out on this project as a whole. I have researched fonts, colour schemes, many articles related to my genre of my magazine and many images within magazines.

The second lesson I booked my photo shoot for the 5th of February. Before I booked the photo shoot I made sure that my model was available at this time as well as my back up model. my original model is available this time and date yet my back up model is not. This means I may have to find another back-up model to ensure that my photo shoot is complete on time and I can start designing my pages. I also took out some research on fonts. The research I gathered gave me an insight to the problems I may come across when I start designing my pages. For example I may feel when I'm designing my pages that the font does not match the style of article or something as simple as the license on the font may be for personal use as an oppose to commercial use. I found a very useful site to help with finding free fonts that can be used commercially called fontsquirrel.com.

The third lesson I researched colour's for my magazine. The research I obtained within the session was very helpful to my project as I designed my own possible colour schemes for each article. The main process I had for designing colour schemes were to gather images related to my articles. I then observed the colours within the images and took colour samples using the eye-drop tool within photoshop. and then put them into various webapps such as mudcu and colourhunter. I learned that many colours will hold many connotations within my articles. For example for my article YouTube: A ticking time bomb I found that many of the colours I sampled were very saturated and almost radioactive which will be very relevant to the article itself. I learned that I need to use very simple,clean and pale colours for D.I.Y designs to make the tutorial very clear and to almost tell the reader its quite simple to build. I think I could have done a lot more research within this lesson as I did not manage complete my research for all the articles and the front cover. I will have to finish this research in my own time to ensure my schedule is not jeopardised.