Photograph Selection

I chose this image because I really like the aperture effect which makes my model’s right hand blurred out. I really feel that it reflects my magazine with the piano and the pink sleeve.

I don’t like this photo as there is too much going on and my model is not centred and the camera is on a tilt. Overall, this is not a strong image.

I chose this image as I felt it had an interesting composition and I liked the warm tones.

I chose this photo as it clearly shows my model with an instrument, therefore giving my magazine the obvious genre of music. I also really liked her expression because it has connotations of joy about her music and I like the backdrop as it differed from my other photos.

I didn’t want to use this photo because although I love the candid nature of it, the camera quality isn’t good and I felt it was too dull for a pop music magazine.

I chose this photo which I had taken at a meet and greet as it is very similar to those seen in pop magazines with the editor meeting the people in the magazine. I also wanted more than one artist on my contents page.

I didn’t choose this photo as it was completely different to any of the others I’d chosen and it was much worse quality.

I didn’t choose this photo because all of the others I have chosen are landscape and I already had a piano photo so it wouldn’t have added anything to the page

I used the spot heal tool to remove any imperfections on my model’s face.

I then used the burn tool to darken her eyebrows, lash line and hair to match my other images.

I altered the brightness and contrast of my image so that it doesn’t look so dark and gloomy but more alive.

I then played with the shadow to again make it lighter.

For these two photographs, I changed the brightness and contrast as both were quite dark and my magazine is quite bright so I wanted it to match more closely. This also gave them more clarity so that they are clearer. Later on, I added a gradient to all of my images to create uniformity.

I placed a white box around the images to make them look like a film strip. I also added a gradient to the page to make it more interesting.

I put my masthead onto the page in size 90 to brand my page. I wrote my heading in Orator size 60 (underlined) to make it clear what the page’s purpose was.

I used the place tool to arrange my images on a blank document.

For the editorial pillars I used orator std size 30 to create a house style and had my article titles in calibri size 18 bold which is both modern,easy to read and reflects the font on my DPS.

I added in the issue number and date in the top left corner-calibri size 18, in white box created using the marquee tool.

I went on to make my editorial pillars orange like my model’s guitar to make them stand out even further and to unite the images and the text.