Production Reflection

Jay Birkin

Process

I made all of the magazine components in Photoshop because it was the only program that actually seemed suitable enough for this project.

On Photoshop you get to set the page size so I went on file and new and then changed the setting to international paper and put it on A4 but I put the scale into centimeters because otherwise it would have been in pixels and that’s not what I needed because I wasn’t creating anything. It was just of images, text and shapes.

This is a tool that selects colours already existing on your page and I used this because you want most of your page to be the same colour so you take them off the images that you put down.

The shape tool was used in the making of the layout of the magazine I started it off by putting all the shapes in so then I could decide where I wanted everything to go. For example the masthead.

To get the colour of all of the squares I used the colour bucket tool. Then I selected my colour pressed on the shape but then I had to make the shape a free transform otherwise it would not have let me colour it in.

Process The masthead of my magazine will go here.To get the fonts for my

magazine I used the website DaFont. This has lots of fonts on and they are easy to download you would just follow these steps.

However the fonts do not work on macs so you can only work with them on PC’S

I used a lot of images in the making of my magazine. I searched up already existing ones to get ideas to put on and for the layout plan of magazine as well to get ideas for my magazine . I got images of important things which need to go on magazines like barcodes and an image of something that relates to the magazine that you are creating.

This is the layout that I created for my front cover before I decided to put all of my images and text on.

A logo will go here.

The price is here.

Information and features included in the magazine will go here.This is a tool that helps with

how far away your lines of text are from each other so they can be far apart or close together. To access this you need to go into windows, paragraphs and select character.

processThe masthead for this magazine suits it very well. Because it clearly states that it is an entertainment magazine and it tells us what entertainment field it is about movies and games also it is pixelated like an game. This is bigger than the rest of the text and draws in the attention of the reader.

The barcode here is out of the way and not covering anything up

This is the logo that I used for my magazine so it has a specific brand to go by and this is so they know they are buying the same content magazine.

This is extra information that tells us specific things that will be featured in the magazine and this will draw the reader in too buy it because you list the best and most interesting things included inside

The competitions and builds are yet another factor that draw in because it gives you a task to do too pass the time as well as saying you can win something back if you buy this.

The main image is a picture of a video game which relates to the type of magazine. The main image is also very grey which relates to the genre type because most games are thrillers which is more on edge.

There is no subtitle because I did not see the relevance and plus it would not fit on.

The price of my magazine is a reasonable price and this will allow more people to buy this.

Process

After I had the size of my page and I had turned it landscape to make it a double page I needed to find the middle point to do this I used the ruler as guidelines which you can pull anywhere on your page. This makes your overall product look great. These are what the guidelines look like.

Before I started my double page I decided to draw my self a layout of about where things would go so the black squares is where I am going to put my images and the title at the top right the rest of the article will be text and I already searched up how I should write my article by looking at existing ones using the correct language and terminology and such.

Process

For the double page i needed information and facts on it so I used Google to find out information to put into my articles for example a list of top rated movies

This is my finished double page and everything is in line with each other from the edges I have filled up all of the page leaving not that much white spacing. The title of this article suits the page because this particular information is included inside. As well as these I included a review of a movie a write up of a movie which was created into a game and a new game console that is coming out soon. All of this information is good and I think it is very interesting article overall to read.