22nd - Production

Last week I started off with making sure all of my pre production documents were finished including my schedule and exactly what I wanted to achieve within my photo shoot. Later on in the week I did my photo shoot, capturing every shot I wanted. I took a lot of photographs during the session, in a variety of ways, for example close ups of my model kissing the globe. Some images were of my model laid in her duvet, and different ranges and also some were of the underwear surrounding the globe which is exactly what I wanted for my double page spread. I took plenty of photographs to make sure I could choose which ones I wanted and which ones fitted within the genre I was trying to portray in the magazine. Not everything went to plan as I think when I went into the studio to take my images, I didn’t think of every single idea I wanted and had planned, instead I experimented one the day, which made me rush my photo’s. I think that everything went smooth including my model and costumes, as well as the props I used. I had a slight problem with the lighting when I experimented with taking photos of the globe on its own and I had to get technical support to help me with that. Although everything else went very well, and once I had uploaded the images, I was very pleased with them.

This week I want to be able to have chosen and also edited each photograph that I am using within my magazine including front cover and double page spread. I know exactly what I would like them to look like and would just like to make it happen. I will go about achieving this by preparing each photo, and trying to find specific fonts for my magazine using different websites. I think once I have found these I can start to place everything around, including my article layout and my front cover design. I would like to have my article completely finished, so it is simple enough to drop into my layout and be able to work around. I would like to have most of the hard work done by next week, and only the designing finishing touches to be done. I think this is realistic to achieve and I will also be able to experiment with photoshop and use tools more such as cropping images, and the clone stamp to edit out certain imperfections on my images. I will have to use a lot of photoshop and also learn how to use InDesign to make my article, which I have never used before. So I will also have to experiment with this as well, and do the best I can.

Some problems I may encounter within the next week may be that I get very confused using InDesign and find it hard to achieve what I would like on my article page. I have used InDesign before to try and have a go before making my real article page although still found it very hard. I think that this could stop me from completing this page in time although I think I can use photoshop quite well as I use it a lot in other parts of my college work for example my graphics. If these things go wrong I can always ask for help off my subject teacher as well as others around me, and using my free time to have a go at experimenting with the software.