AS Media Coursework

1. SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT

2. COLOURING AROUND THE LETTERS (INDESIGN)
In order to prevent the issues of using
red and white on the dark and light
background occurring on my front
cover, I have decided to outline each
character with black. This was
accomplished by adjusting the weight of
the stroke (0.75pt) and adding a black
filler. Any bigger than 0.75 the outline
would be too over empowering to read
and would be unattractive on the page
however any smaller the it wouldn't
have barely have any effect on making
the coverlines clearer to read.
I also used a read outline on my masthead, as this was again hard to
read because of the black dots in the background. I did this on
Photoshop as the image was snipped from online. This was achieved by
the same process as my coverlines, however it gave me the option to
having the outline on the outside or inside of the characters, the inside
looked unattractive so in order to maintain the aesthetics of my front
cover I filled the outline on the outside.

3. FRONT COVER FONT
In the early drafts on my front cover, after snipping
text from DaFont, to add colour to the text I used
this paint tool to fill in the text in whatever desired
colour. To save time and effort, I took advantage of
the keyboard shortcuts including the zoom in (CTRL
and +) and out (CTRL and -). The step back function
(CTRL and z) enabled me to undo any mistakes
quickly.
To achieve my mastehead and typography for my
coverlines in my drafts, I used this tool to cut my
chosen fonts from the website DaFont. After
zooming in on the website as much as you need the
text size to be, all you hade to do was click on the
desktop start button and if pre-installed, click to
open the tool and the screen would go transculent
and a little tab will appear explaining what to do to
capture whatever you wanted. Click save when the
cut image is previewed making sure it is saved as a
PNG so it can be moved into photoshop.

4. PHOTOSHOP
How I accomplished to rid of my image's
background in my contents page and the
white background of snipped images from
the internet was through using these two
tools on Photoshop. The first option would to
try the magic wand tool (1st image), by
dragging the cursor on the desired area of
the image, it will start to select a block of
background for example. However sometimes
the using this tool, it will select a part of the
image you don't want to get rid of, that's
where I used the erasing tool, it does the
exact same as the other tool however
requires more carefulness and time.
Depending on what I needed to get rid off,
took the advantage of the keyboard shortcut,
CTRL and [, to make the rubber smaller and,
CTRL and ], to make it bigger.
INDESIGN
In the production of my DPS, I
needed to make sure both the
texts and images were aligned up
when put together. How I was able
to make a double page spread on
InDesign was, to go to the righ
hand panel and select pages, click
on the drop box icon at the top
right corner of the opened tab and
scroll down to find "Allow
Document Pages to Shuffle"
untick it. Then finally with the
page tab opened drag one of the
documents to the other separate
one to connect them into a double
page spread.