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.

Penultimate Version

Cover Drafts

This is the transformation of my cover page including my sketches and previous ideas. As you can see, my ideas about my cover page have changed a lot, yet this is still not the final draft as I feel there is still room for improvement to make it look more like a realistic music magazine.

Image Manipulation/Process: Before and After

 

These are two of the images I used on my third double page spread. The original images were in colour however I edited them in my magazine to make them look more original. On my double page spread, I include five photos of my model with the second and forth image being in black and white to contrast with the other images in colour. I managed this effect in Photoshop by first of all removing the background and then turning the image black and white. To remove the background, I used the magic wand tool and to change the colour I went onto the layers section to create a new fill or adjustment layer. I then selected black and white. I found removing the background the hardest task because of the way my model’s hair was styled – this meant I had to go in between the gaps to remove any excess background.

Chosen Images

Magazine Draft

Drafting 4

 

 This is my last piece of drafting I produced. Here you can see the drafting for my third double page spread - this will be where I wrap the whole article up, include a wider selection of images and also write about the artist's interests in the red box in the lower right corner. I thought this was a great way to end my article plus it is also an excellent way to include exclusive information. I may also include an image of my artist on the left so the text can wrap around my photo. I think this way of presenting an image is perhaps more interesting than the box examples therefore I will include one example of this.

Drafting 3

 

 I then produced the drafting for my second double page spread. I thought I would have a large image of my model on the left and then text of the article on the right. I wanted to have a short paragraph at the top to briefly describe what the article will be about/who my artist is, as well as a lengthy piece of text, again with an interesting pull quote to stand out to the reader.

Drafting 2

 

 

 This is my daft for my first double page spread. The large black space represents the large image I will later use for these two pages. I wanted to include a big photo of my model who is the artist in my magazine over two pages as I thought this looked effective in other examples of magazines I had seen. I also wanted to include a pull quote from the article to make it look even more interesting and also appropriate for the feature. I will include a quote that is entertaining or looks of some interest to the reader.

Drafting 1

 This is my first drafting double page spread that I created in InDesign. This draft was based on other contents pages I researched from other music magazines. The black boxes represent images I will later place. I also thought it was appropriate to include an editor's note on the bottom part of my content's page to make it more personal for the reader as well as heading and subheadings for the pages. For now, I have gone with red as my main colour in my colour scheme however I may change this later on if I think another colour looks more suited as this is just my draft.