Pre-lim Pics Final

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Media studies: Pre-lim magazine pics:


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These are the final preliminary creations, following the hand drawn designs for both the school

magazine cover and contents.

The contents page design primarily follows the design with the vertical line in-between the contents

page titles and contents page numbers, as you will see on the hand drawn designs. The front cover

follows the design and layout of the NICE design, only it has the LC weekly title instead.

As you can see, the cover page is designed to look like a typical but attractive front cover. Various

different fonts, sizes and colours have been used for titles, headings, and other text on the page.

This is because it makes the cover look more fun and stylish, and it attracts the attention of the

audience. Some text overlaps the main image of me, this is because a typical magazine cover design

features titles or text to overlap their main images as it looks more unusual, but creative. It also

makes a sense as if the text is actual next to the person in the main image of the cover, a sense of

realism, in some respects. The LC logo could count as either the logo in the corner, or as part of the

title, its an innovative way of giving a logo a double-purpose. If considered as part of the title, then

LC weekly spreads all across the top of the page, which is good since most magazines do that and it

makes it stand more to the viewer of the page.

The contents page follows off of one of the hand drawn designs, where a huge line goes in the

middle of the contents text and page numbers. This is so the numbers stand out more. The title is

huge and bold so it also stands out a lot to the reader. There is an image placed at the bottom of the

page so the contents page appears to be more visually interesting to the viewers of the magazine,

the contents page will not appear to be boring to the readers


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Evaluation of preliminary work:

What other magazines inspired this?

The design for the magazine cover was based on my 3 preliminary designs on paper. These designs

were used to influence the final computer one. Those 3 designs themselves were influenced by a

large range and variety of magazine covers.

Many magazine brands helped to inspire this, including NME, Kerrang, and Vibe. These are all huge

brands which have huge fan bases and successful magazine sales. This is because they successfully

make their magazines well produced because they handle things such as design, layout, content

featured, how it is represented. So these are successful magazine brands, particularly aimed at the

music market. This will be what is based on my actual coursework.

What of your pre-lim work did you find successful?

I thought that even though my drawing skills were poor, the mock-up designs were fairly decent.

While not containing great art, they did supply good design and layout cover examples for my actual

Photoshop designs. As they were only mock-ups, no colour was added. It was entirely made with

pencil. The contents page mock-up designs were also very good in supplying a good example of how

a cover should be laid out and designed. The drawing was poor also, but the ideas and content

included were very effective and linked to how the appealing magazines which inspired it were

designed, supplying a good concept of how to design the actual computer version.

When it came to the actual computer generated image, it was okay. The positives included the

design and the layout. For instance, the title was spread out all across the top of the page. This was

effective as it makes the title stand out more in a sense of comparative scale compared to the top

half of the page. At least, when combined with the logo, which can serve as either just a logo, or as

part of the title itself, considering where it is positioned. Another example is that set of sub-headingson the side of the page, which all relate to inside content. For example, there are headings in black

and then sub-headings in varied colours. The position is good as it is near, or some of it even

overlaps, the main image on the bottom half of the page. This is effective as it gets the text of

headings noticed by being placed near a very noticeable main image. The colours are also appealing

to the reader. Unlike having a different colour for the background, increasing the colour scheme of

the cover design in range, thereby reducing appealing quality and making it look like a mess; the text

itself rather does the opposite, by improving appealing quality for the text of headings. This way, the

headings are a lot more noticeable by standing out in colour and the readers become more

interested with the inside content of the magazine as a result, positively promoting it.

Above. The logo image can either be considered as just an actual logo in the corner, or as part of the

title which stretches across the top of the page.


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The text of headings/sub-headings overlaps the main image.

The text of headings, sub-headings are highlighted in separate colours to stand out

more.

What would you improve?

There are areas for improvement, such as the main image cut-out. As you can see, the cut-out was

poorly attempted at, as my head shows a very poor outline which does not look realistic. When it

comes to the final cover, the cut-out must be worked on more to achieve perfection in realistic and

appealing visual content. Another issue was the chosen colour scheme for the main cover. The

scheme is brown, with a few colours narrowly seen in the transition to blue. The colour scheme of

mostly brown was arguably unfitting to the theme of the magazine cover, or the content of it, as was

certainly no the most appealing. The text of headings/sub-headings was not fitting to the colour

scheme in the BG either, as although different colours helped to make the sub-headings stand out,

the overall BG didnt. Dark brown may not be the best choice for the colour scheme as some of the

text is black, and the bright colours dont tend to stand out either. Finally, although a weak point,

the text could be more bold rather than underlined, as that is more typical and appealing for a

magazine cover, and it generally makes the text stand out more and look better.


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Above. The main image has been cut out fairly poorly.

The BG does not make anything stand out or look appealing.

Text is underlined and not bold, bold is better.

As you can see above, the contents page was handled in pretty much the same way as the cover,

only without a cut-out image.

What skills you have developed?

Experience of Photoshop abilities.

For example, take layer arrangement, I had to arrange how I categorised my layers, such as what

content went into each layer and which layers appeared in front of others.


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An example of how I categorised my different layers for the image.

Another thing I learned was how to use the tool which creates background colours and colours

within the shapes used. The rectangle tool. Something I was unaware that existed before. This can

be used to make a shape turn into any mix of colours. The BG was used with this tool.

I also learned how to use the lasso tool a slight bit better. Although the cut out of the main mid-shot

image was clearly imperfect, it was still an improvement from before.

These were examples of what was developed in my skills of using the software for the image

creation. Many other skills were also developed

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