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Tuesday 3 December 2013
Production Diary: 02/12/13 - Dawn of the Dead(line)
The past week I have been making more work on my contents. I was able to produce an effective layout that will be readable but also visually exciting - however I am lacking a lot of the text and imagery. When I first produced the contents page text I wasn't certain on my layout or how it would look as it hadn't been finished so I have had to recreate it.
I consider my contents page to be nearly finished. I looked up magazines for effective layouts and I took a lot of inspiration from an NME cover as I deemed it to be an effective layout which mirrored the tone I wished to create. I am yet to recieve feedback (aside from my Mum saying cheerfully "Oh that looks nice!") so I am anticipating making improvements but I feel that I have done as much as I can to make it look effective and I am able to focus my attention on the other pages that need completing.
This week I hope to take some more photos of other musicians for use on my contents page so I can finish that off before the Final Draft deadline on the 16th!
I consider my contents page to be nearly finished. I looked up magazines for effective layouts and I took a lot of inspiration from an NME cover as I deemed it to be an effective layout which mirrored the tone I wished to create. I am yet to recieve feedback (aside from my Mum saying cheerfully "Oh that looks nice!") so I am anticipating making improvements but I feel that I have done as much as I can to make it look effective and I am able to focus my attention on the other pages that need completing.
This week I hope to take some more photos of other musicians for use on my contents page so I can finish that off before the Final Draft deadline on the 16th!
Equipment
In the production of my music magazine I have been utilising
different kinds of equipment to achieve a professional look. This blog post
will be looking at some of them.
To take the actual photos I had to book a photo-shoot in my school where the media department provided the backdrops, cameras and lightings.
The backdrops were three different rolls of paper of different colours – white, black and green. The one I used most was the white roll as it presented clear, crisp professional photos with attention drawn to my model. Near the end I chose to use the black roll as I thought it would look great with the style of my model who was wearing black and white. The end results were very professional and visually exciting photos. Unfortunately there were many inconveniences when using these rolls as the chain used to roll them down broke on a couple occasions forcing the model and I to put our photo-shoot on hold while we sorted out the chain.
Luckily, the camera we used was a lot more reliable. It was a High-Tec Canon SLR which produced great quality photos inside and out of the studio. We used artificial lighting to create the most effective images in the studio which flashed when I took the photo. The quality of the photos was essential for creating an effective music magazine and I think I achieved this.
For the production of the magazine we opted to use InDesign as opposed to Photoshop which we used when creating a magazine last year. I have so far found InDesign to be much more effective – especially as it seems designed for developing magazines – and I have made great use of the column feature which is especially evident in my contents page. However I am still using Photoshop for work on individual images such as removing the background for photos and altering the colours. I have needed to familiarise myself with Photoshop as it has been a while since I used it.
To take the actual photos I had to book a photo-shoot in my school where the media department provided the backdrops, cameras and lightings.
The backdrops were three different rolls of paper of different colours – white, black and green. The one I used most was the white roll as it presented clear, crisp professional photos with attention drawn to my model. Near the end I chose to use the black roll as I thought it would look great with the style of my model who was wearing black and white. The end results were very professional and visually exciting photos. Unfortunately there were many inconveniences when using these rolls as the chain used to roll them down broke on a couple occasions forcing the model and I to put our photo-shoot on hold while we sorted out the chain.
Luckily, the camera we used was a lot more reliable. It was a High-Tec Canon SLR which produced great quality photos inside and out of the studio. We used artificial lighting to create the most effective images in the studio which flashed when I took the photo. The quality of the photos was essential for creating an effective music magazine and I think I achieved this.
For the production of the magazine we opted to use InDesign as opposed to Photoshop which we used when creating a magazine last year. I have so far found InDesign to be much more effective – especially as it seems designed for developing magazines – and I have made great use of the column feature which is especially evident in my contents page. However I am still using Photoshop for work on individual images such as removing the background for photos and altering the colours. I have needed to familiarise myself with Photoshop as it has been a while since I used it.
Sunday 1 December 2013
Tuesday 26 November 2013
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The One to Watch –
2012
Before we printed, we
were a blog. Here is an extract from an article from a year ago where we (quite
rightly) pointed to Nick Decruz as an artist to watch before he took over the
world.By this point you’ve heard Imagine Dragon’s hit song Radioactive. Background song to many a video game trailer and almost always played on the radio. It’s a fantastic song but people are already beginning to feel it’s overplayed.
How refreshing this Acoustic Cover is then.
(On the blog we had a
link to the video. Scan this page with the POLARIS MAG APP for a link - Edd)Nick DeCruz from North West London picked up a guitar and played one of his favourite songs. While the techno sounds that have become synonymous with Imagine Dragons are lacking, their presence isn’t missed due to the powerful guitar’s melody and powerful vocals.
Nick’s suggested the option of recording more songs,
something we’d love to hear.
Give it a year and he’ll start writing his own songs.
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