5. I used the apple Imac so I was able to use all the soft wares to create my
magazine cover , contents and article. This allowed me to edit text and and
photos so I could create all of the work. I have learnt how to use many
applications on the mac such as adobe photoshop cs5.
APPLE MAC
6. I used a camera DSLR so I could take the pictures for my magazine. I used a
camera in my photoshoot so I could take photos of my two friends for my
magazine and there were also pictures of me so the camera was used on me
also. When taking a shot I learnt how to focus the camera, zoom in and zoom
out, how to take a shot from different angles e.g. crouched down. I wanted
HD photos on my magazine cover, contents and article to give it a
professional appearance and so I used a good camera which was a:
Nikon D3100 – Digital SLR
CAMERA DSLR
7. I used a strobe light to make my artist stand out more this abled me to make
certain parts of their body clearer than others e.g. on my cover I made the
light come out on the right side because Tyler has a big diamond/gold chain
on that stands out as the light is shining on it. I also used a horseshoe flash
trigger which sends infra red signal to the strobe flash this then makes the
flash be in sync with the camera shutter.
Strobe flash(Hemisphere 300) Horseshoe flash trigger
LIGHT STUDIO STROBES
8. I used a white backdrop and softboxes to keep the lighting both smooth and
concentrated on the artists. The soft boxes allowed me to have a more
rounder and focused light on the subject(a smooth soft sort of lighting). The
backdrop let me concentrate on the artists and nothing else as it’s just a white
background so it doesn’t take any colour from the shot.
Softboxes White Backdrop
OTHER LIGHTING
10. I used indesign to construct my article as I needed to add my text on word to
the article I created in adobe photoshop. I edited my text for the answers on
my article I learnt how to put effects on the text in indesign such as a red
outline. I also learnt how to change the angle of text on indesign.
To research other magazines similar to mine I used firefox and I also used
firefox to get text fonts and to access my blog.
OSK- the operating system that Apple Mac uses this holds all the information
and accounts that are on the Mac’s, if this server didn’t exist I wouldn’t be able
to do my work.
SOFTWARES USED
11. This is the main application I used so therefore it was the most important.
This is how I constructed my cover , contents and article. I edited images and
text on this. For example my magazine title has many effects on it such as
making it red, bigger, bolder so it stands out on the cover and the reader easily
recognizes that it’s the magazine title. I also had to sort out the layers of the
items that make up my work e.g. my black background had to be at the back
and the magazine title had to be at the front as it’s suppose to stand out the
most. I used many different fonts throughout my magazine to add creativity
and variation so it looked interesting to the reader. I also used drop shadow on
some of the fonts to make it stand out more.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS5
12. I used wordpress to post my work so my teacher and friends can look at my
work and analyse it. I could also work on this at home not just at school as it’s
a online account.
I used prezi to do my first 5 questions and display them in a creative and
sophisticated way.
WORDPRESS & PREZI
