Evaluation

Evaluation

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  Evaluation Jessica Parker
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  1.In what waysdoes your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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  Masthead Footer showingthemes of magazine Main cover lines Price Main medium close up image Barcode Flash Limited Pallet San serif fonts Serif font Barcode Puff Puff Analysis of magazine cover
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  Main Image – In my main image I used a medium close up like the one in Red. Masthead – I put the masthead in the 3 top squares in the rule of thirds. I also used a serif font and a purple colour to stay with the theme. Limited Pallet - The colours consisted of purple and blue and orange. I chose these colours as they stand out on the plain background on my cover. Cover lines – Throughout my cover lines I used a main cover line like the magazine red. For my main cover line I used a big bold serif font which stands out on the page as the other cover lines are a lot smaller. Flash – I used a flash on my cover unlike red highlighting the price which is effective as it stands out on the cover as it’s orange but it also fills up dead space on the cover. Footer – Both my magazine and Red uses a footer at the bottom. This footer highlights the themes of the magazine which is effective. Rule of Thirds – Throughout creating my magazine I used rule of thirds on the layout as its an effective technique as it puts the structure of the magazine in a professional look. Puff – Both magazines use a puff under the masthead in the first left in the grid. The puff is used in a san serif font making it stand out under the masthead.
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  Analysis of contentspage Contents title Date and issue no. Article headings San serif page details Limited colour pallet Pictures relating to articles
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  Contents Title – For my contents title I use the same serif font that is used on the cover of magazine keeping the theme of the magazine consistent throughout. Colour Pallet – For the colours on my contents page I kept the same limited pallet that was used on my cover keeping it consistent with the cover. The colours that were used are blue, purple and orange. Photos – The photo’s used on my contents page are appropriate as they all link in with the articles for example the photo of the gym links in with health heading and the article about the college gym. Date and Issue no. – For my date and issue number I used a similar flash that was used on my cover. This gives the contents page a good effect as it is the only orange that is used throughout my contents making it stand out. Article Headings – To make my article headings stand out I used the cyan blue that was used throughout my cover but I also boxed the headings like on the contents page on the right. This gives the headings a good effect as they stand out. Page Details – For the page details of my magazine such as page numbers and article titles I used a san serif font but used blue for the page number and purple for the article titles. The san serif font used is bold but is also used throughout the contents page making it consistent.
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  2. What haveyou learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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  Photoshop By usingthis software to create my magazine cover my ability to use this programme become more advanced. This was because I was using tools that I had never used before such as fx, magnetic lasso tool, clone stamp and many more different tools. These tools allowed me to create my magazine cover to a professional standard. For example the clone tool allowed me to get rid of any marks in the images that I didn’t want, the magnetic lasso tool allowed me to cut out background from the pictures and the fx tool allowed me to give my cover effective fx around text and images.
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  Photoshop – Usingeffects on my front cover I learnt how to put an effect around the text on the main cover line making it easier to read against the dark background. I did this by clicking on ‘fx’ and then clicking on stroke which bought up a menu. The menu then allows me to choose the colour I want the stroke but also the size. I could also change the opacity.
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  In the originalimage it had a line which I wanted to get rid of and I did this by using the clone stamp tool. I did this by using the tool on the side menu. This allows you to choose the colour you want by holding down the alt key. By clicking on the background it clones the colour that you clicked and then allows you to start colouring in where you want. This is my final image without the line in the background. The menu at the top allows you to change the size of the brush and the hardness of the brush. The menu also allows you to change the opacity.
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  In Photoshop Iwanted to cut the background out for this image and I learnt how to do this this by using the magnetic lasso tool which is found on the Photoshop side bar. By learning how to use the magnetic lasso tool it allowed me to cut unwanted bits out of my images. The lasso attaches the edge when you drag the mouse round what you want to select. As I learnt how to do this my ability to use this tool progressed.
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  InDesign During theprocess of this project I learnt how to use the software as well as tools which I had developed through out making my contents page. I used tools such as the pen tool and convertor design tool, eye dropper tool, fx tool and many more. By learning to use these tools I learnt new skills such as how to draw shapes as InDesign had a limited amount of shape, I also was able to use the same colour I used in Photoshop by using the eye dropper tool as InDesign had a limited amount of colours as well as using effective fx on my contents page.
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  In InDesign Icouldn’t get the shape I wanted so I had to learn how to draw the shape with the pen tool which allows you to draw any shape you want. By using the pen tool it allows you to draw the approximate shape you want which can then be edited. I then learnt by using the convertor point tool it allows you to curve the edges that you click on. By learning how to do this allowed me to create a splat like shape. By learning how to create a shape on InDesign gave me the ability how to use the pen and convertor point tools. This was the splat that I created on my contents page.
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  As indesign hasa limited amount of colours I learnt how I could get the same colours I had used from Photoshop into InDesign. To get the same colour I went on to photoshop and used the eye dropper tool. By using this tool allowed to select any colour on the page that I wanted. I then took the numbers that are highlighted and i put them in the same box in indesign. On the side bar on InDesign I clicked on swatches and typed in the same numbers that gave me the colour I wanted from Photoshop. Once I typed in the numbers it gave me exactly the same colour.