for college

1. Production Reflection
James

2. Process
When starting to make the double
page, I started out with what I
wanted the colour of the page to be.
I thought that having a standard
white background would be too
boring, some of the research I did
showed that some of the magazines
used a grey background as well, so I
took some inspiration from them.
I put the borders down first so I could
outline where I wanted everything
else to go.
I put the pictures down after that so I
could put the text down after that.

3. Process
For the text I already had a pretty
good idea with where I wanted it
to go. So I wrote out what I
needed to and then split it all into
separate paragraphs, but when I
did this realised I had an awkward
gap in the middle of the first page.
So I decided to put a quote from
the interview in its place, not only
does it stand out, but I tried to find
a quote that I wrote out that
sounded interesting and would
want to make the audience
understand more of the context.
I didn't have to do this with the
second page since I already wrote
enough of it out.

4. Process
The picture that I ended up using for the
front cover wasn't the one that I had
planned on using when I started to
make it. I real of context, the lighting
was off, and none of the text could
really stand out that much on it.
So I went with a picture that I took at a
concert, which ended up looking even
better then what I had planned, and it
still fit into the theme of music, while
still capturing the same kind of mood I
was going for in the first place.
Obviously I was going to need more
pictures, namely the ones of the artists
that I featured in the pages, so I started
with those and tried to find a good place
to put them, the only issue was that the
ones I chose in the end were too bright.

5. Process
To come over the issue of the images being too
bright, I did a few changes to the base image, I put a
few stock images behind it and changed the texture
and colour of those, and it actually ended up working
really well. Not only did it fix the issue of most of the
images being too bright, but it also made the product
look cleaner and sharper in general. The text stood
out a lot better as well.
The picture at the bottom was still a too bright, so I
changed the contrast and brightness of it, and put it
closer to the bottom then put a faint black pain over
them which I think made them blend in really well.
For the other artist I just put a black line underneath
him because without it, it just looked like he or the
other artist I just put a black line underneath him
because without it, it just looked like he was floating,
which made the products as whole look really
unprofessional.
For the title all I did was come up with an easy name
to remember,, put it around a black and red
background, and then put the name over those,
which made it stand out when the product came
together in the end.