Monday 13 June 2011
Evaluation
For this project we was given free roam to make any thing we wanted, whether it be a magazine a brand or a poster campaign. This meant we had to make our own brief stick to it.
I think my project turned out rather well as I managed to create a well designed graphical surfing/music magazine, If I was going to change anything it would most likely be the free space I have on some pages, I say this because my overall design was to keep the magazine graphical but informative at the same time and I just felt that in some places pages could have been filled with a bit more type.
I got my magazine printed on a professional standard which I think really boosted the style of the magazine as it made it look a lot more synthetic and the real deal, maybe next time I would have got the magazine printed on lighter paper.
I felt one of the major things I could of improved on would have been my timekeeping as if I had a more structured time plan I could of effectively compiled more pages to go in my magazine.
I think one of my strong points was that it was a surfing magazine as using images of surfing was really fun to work with using huge images of monster waves worked well in my opinion I think this was one of the main things that made me enjoy this project, another thing I enjoyed about this project was being able to make it about anything thing I wanted I.e. music that I enjoyed.
Over all I think my project related to my brief that I had started with and I’m happy with my final outcome.
I think my project turned out rather well as I managed to create a well designed graphical surfing/music magazine, If I was going to change anything it would most likely be the free space I have on some pages, I say this because my overall design was to keep the magazine graphical but informative at the same time and I just felt that in some places pages could have been filled with a bit more type.
I got my magazine printed on a professional standard which I think really boosted the style of the magazine as it made it look a lot more synthetic and the real deal, maybe next time I would have got the magazine printed on lighter paper.
I felt one of the major things I could of improved on would have been my timekeeping as if I had a more structured time plan I could of effectively compiled more pages to go in my magazine.
I think one of my strong points was that it was a surfing magazine as using images of surfing was really fun to work with using huge images of monster waves worked well in my opinion I think this was one of the main things that made me enjoy this project, another thing I enjoyed about this project was being able to make it about anything thing I wanted I.e. music that I enjoyed.
Over all I think my project related to my brief that I had started with and I’m happy with my final outcome.
Thursday 28 April 2011
http://www.thechurchoflondon.com/work/in-house-publishing/huck-25/
I think this website will help to see what sort of alternative magazines use in there DPS layouts and how they do it to create interesting and complex DPS's
TYLER THE CREATOR
This guy is a major influence on alternative hip hop in this era making himself stand out against major artist of today, what i like about this artist and why i want to use him in my magazine is because of how out spoken he is, aswell is how honest he is about just being in music to try and make money from what hes doing with ambition of getting on MTV and making it.
Tuesday 26 April 2011
contrasting font
The font here is a well recognised one from the Disney franchise which most people see as a warm and childlike font as when i look at it, it reminds me of my childhood and when i went to disneyland, on the other hard the words written in the font "die" are quite the opposite and make us think of death and pain which is why i think this is a powerful image.
shark
The image above of a shark and a kid on a surfboard are very conflicting as many people who see sharks judge them as viscous man eating creatures, but seeing a shark next to this child grabs attention making us think what happened after this photo was taken and is the kid alright.
Thursday 31 March 2011
purposel
Final Project Producing a Magazine
For my final project im going to produce a A4 magazine cover similar to magazines such as Front, Baseline, Rocksound and NME magazine. My magazine will be based around current Teenage and Young adult trends i.e. clothes, music and funny sarcastic images. I think this will give a broad target audience as all of these ideas relate to a lot of people, I think this will relate to my work as I have always had a grungy style and I could easily make this project relate to my strengths rather than weaknesses. Inside my magazine I want to have a lot of graphic/mark making skills involved.
For my research for this project im going to look at current magazines and other brochures relevant to my target audience such as Kerrang magazine and other products, websites and book to get a general idea of what is already out there, another important part of my magazine is advertisement as every magazine has some sort of adverts inside or the selling of products inside it such as t-shirts demos and freebees.
Most of the techniques I hope to use will be mostly Photography based with a mark marking effect, using lots of graphical touches for backgrounds and layouts. I hope to use mainly Photoshop, Illustrator and In design as my programs because they all help to create the aspects and formats of a magazine I intend to make. I will spread the use of the programs over the 12 weeks we have been given. Starting with the first 3 weeks doing research into what is already out there, the next 4 weeks will involve a lot of initial ideas and thumbnails, the next 2 weeks will include reviews and peer assessments on my work to gain an idea of where I am and what I can improve, and the last 3 weeks will involve perfecting my chosen ideas into actual magazine produces.
I hope to mainly work on paper for my magazine but I will use other materials such as card and plastic for my effects like mark making and backgrounds.
WEEKS Week 1-3 Week 3-7 Week 7-9 Week 9-12
JOBS Research Thumbnails Reviews Finals
Initial Ideas
Photography
ANNOTATION
To analyse my project I will use Peer assessments throughout and use them to improve my work offering other examples and ask them to compare and chose which ones the prefer and work on perfecting those ideas so I know im working to my target audience. Apart from doing this I will evaluate my work as I go along making sure im keeping to my brief and not straying far from my ideas, other ways I can do this is by comparing my work to other magazines and work that’s already out there seeing what ways they have made and designed the magazines without plagiarising other peoples work.
For my final project im going to produce a A4 magazine cover similar to magazines such as Front, Baseline, Rocksound and NME magazine. My magazine will be based around current Teenage and Young adult trends i.e. clothes, music and funny sarcastic images. I think this will give a broad target audience as all of these ideas relate to a lot of people, I think this will relate to my work as I have always had a grungy style and I could easily make this project relate to my strengths rather than weaknesses. Inside my magazine I want to have a lot of graphic/mark making skills involved.
For my research for this project im going to look at current magazines and other brochures relevant to my target audience such as Kerrang magazine and other products, websites and book to get a general idea of what is already out there, another important part of my magazine is advertisement as every magazine has some sort of adverts inside or the selling of products inside it such as t-shirts demos and freebees.
Most of the techniques I hope to use will be mostly Photography based with a mark marking effect, using lots of graphical touches for backgrounds and layouts. I hope to use mainly Photoshop, Illustrator and In design as my programs because they all help to create the aspects and formats of a magazine I intend to make. I will spread the use of the programs over the 12 weeks we have been given. Starting with the first 3 weeks doing research into what is already out there, the next 4 weeks will involve a lot of initial ideas and thumbnails, the next 2 weeks will include reviews and peer assessments on my work to gain an idea of where I am and what I can improve, and the last 3 weeks will involve perfecting my chosen ideas into actual magazine produces.
I hope to mainly work on paper for my magazine but I will use other materials such as card and plastic for my effects like mark making and backgrounds.
WEEKS Week 1-3 Week 3-7 Week 7-9 Week 9-12
JOBS Research Thumbnails Reviews Finals
Initial Ideas
Photography
ANNOTATION
To analyse my project I will use Peer assessments throughout and use them to improve my work offering other examples and ask them to compare and chose which ones the prefer and work on perfecting those ideas so I know im working to my target audience. Apart from doing this I will evaluate my work as I go along making sure im keeping to my brief and not straying far from my ideas, other ways I can do this is by comparing my work to other magazines and work that’s already out there seeing what ways they have made and designed the magazines without plagiarising other peoples work.
Tuesday 29 March 2011
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Surfer Magazine a good start to the sort of magazine style i want to include
http://www.surfermag.com/#
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