Evaluation

Final Magazine

Process: Removing The Background

 This is a video presenting how I was able to remove the background from the images I took of my model Vanessa. In this example, I removed the background of my cover image on Photoshop, using a selection of various tool inluding the 'Magic Wand Tool' and the 'Eraser Tool'. As you can see, it was clearly very easy to do and proved to be beneficial for the duration of my project. The skills I have learnt on Photoshop will also help me in the future with other media related products and similar software.

Final Cover Comparison

 These are further improvements I made of my music magazine front cover. In my 'Cover Drafts' post which I posted before, I presented the transformation of my cover page - from my sketch version to the third draft however I made it clear at the end of the post that I still needed to make improvements in order to create the best cover I possible could. These are two final drafts of my magazine cover with the absolute final version at the bottom. You can see that even after many versions of my cover, I still continued to make significant changes whether it was the font/size of the sell lines, adding extra sell lines, making the image bigger or even changing my magazine's name. As I have mentioned before in my production dairies, when improving my magazine I changed many of the serif fonts to sans-serif fonts which you can clearly see from the two images above. I also created the sell line 'Free Lawson Poster Inside' which I personally believe is another sell line that can attract my target audience. Overall, I am now happy with my final front cover even if it required many improvements and a variety of different ideas.

Production Diary

01/03/14 - Finishing My Project

 Today and over the past week, I have been constantly improving my magazine and finishing off my evaluation - this includes copying my answers to the questions in a magazine format and adding pictures of where I got my ideas from, what software I used, comparisons and extra pictures of my model . I am also making sure every other post is complete and up to standard. I have also made a post of my audience feedback to show what they liked about my magazine and what I have also done to improve it in order to create my final draft magazine. Overall, I am now happy with my completed magazine as I think it looks realistic, interesting and represents the indie genre well.