15th March - pre -production.

Last week I decided to start designing my article layout and exactly what I was going to put where. Including where my photographs would go, including drawing flat plans and also where the text would go. I finished off my mock up ideas, to help me on my way to achieving the look I wanted for my magazine front cover, as well as searching for fonts on www.dafont.com. Everything ran smoothly apart from because I didn’t have my photographs taken, it was harder to decide exactly where I wanted to put things and how I would design it. I had to work around this problem and imagine where the images and text were going to go. I used photoshop to complete my mock up ideas, which was quite hard to complete seeing as though I wasn’t sure what I was going to do.


Scheduled for this week, I have my photo shoot on Friday and this will help all of my ideas come together, including being able to edit them on photoshop and arrange them on in design, into the order I want them. I will make sure I will have all models and props completely sorted, including back up models just in case it doesn’t go to plan, and that all my props are arranged a couple of days in advance to just get on and do the photo shoot. Apart from getting more used to photoshop and carrying on with in design, I have not learnt many new technical skills, although I am getting a lot better at working in these programmes that I am not used to.


Possible problems I may encounter might be that the first model I have chosen may not turn up, or that I forget some of my props. Worst comes to worst I can rearrange the look I wanted to achieve and still make it work, but by using a lot of editing on photoshop after the shoot. I am hoping everything goes to plan although I do still have my backups arranged.

 This is one of my first mock up ideas I tried to complete on photoshop. This would be for my front cover, and I like this idea a lot. I think it would work better if my model was laid on a bed and under a duvet, looking at the globe and seducing it a bit more. Although I tried to put this together to show the basic idea of what i wanted.

I like this idea as well, of a boy band, using things to do with recycling as their instruments. It would obviously be hard to find a boyband, but getting a group of males together and dressing them like an average boy band to show this would look really good. I know the photoshop version I done is a very rough estimate at what i wanted, but i just wanted to mess around to start collecting ideas.