Production experiments

1. Experiments
Ewan Wild

2. Front Cover Process
• My front cover was quite simple
as I wanted something
minimalistic yet slick-looking.
There wasn’t too much to it apart
from some masking and cropping.
I got this photo of Zach Lavine
from other places and cropped
out his surroundings. This made it
so I can move him around to
anywhere without worrying about
an audience as my background
and could instead use an off black
background. I also wanted to use
simple and dull colours as it
creates good practice for what
schemes work when I go onto to
my real project.

3. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you include in
your final product?
• My favourite area of this experiment was the cropped Zach Lavine photo
which covers the B on the title. I think it looks good and gives the cover
something extra, like it isn’t just a normal title but it has an actual
basketball on it as the B, making it look more exciting. This idea of putting
the title behind rather than keeping it at the front adds a nice aesthetic to
the cover that I would like to keep. I also like the little white lines between
each name. The white is clearly visible yet not overpowering and so it
makes for a nice colour on the cover. For my actual cover, I will use white
for all of the words, apart from the title. The cover as a whole is fairly
minimalistic, a design which I like. However for my real project I would
prefer to make it seem a little more complex for a higher mark. As good as
a minimalistic look is, it’s easier to do and so could hurt my grade. Instead
I will use more Photoshop techniques, such as masking, to create a good
looking cover which will be more complex than what I have done so far.

4. Double Page Process
This page was made in a pretty
simple way. I started off with the
background. I masked Steph Curry
and the basketball hoop then
reversed it, highlighting
everything else. Then I put a black
and white filter on it so only him
and the hoop was in colour. This
just adds a neater look to the
double page spread. Next I had to
find a font that worked with the
article. I chose “Headline 2” as it is
a fairly bold font that looks good.
My colour scheme was also quite
simple. It was made up of yellow
and blue as these are the colours
of Golden State Warriors, Steph
Curry’s team.

5. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you include in your
final product?
– My favourite part of the experiment was the background with
parts being in black and white with one part being in colour. I’m
not sure just yet how I will put this into a music magazine,
however I want to try and include it somehow as I am very
pleased with how it looks. I think it adds a highlight on one thing
and makes it seem different than everything else around it,
which is important when making a page dedicated to this one
person or thing. I also like the quotes which as bigger than
everything else as it adds more of a meaning to the interview
and shows in one sentence what the person is like. If I use an
interview on my double page spread this will be easy to do as it
is just picking out one quote from a whole interview.