3. production experiments
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The document describes experiments with designing magazine covers and double page spreads. For the front cover, the author used a band image from Google and sampled colors from it to use throughout. Smaller images and angled text were also added. For the double page spread, a 60% text to 40% image ratio was used along with a main story and smaller secondary story. Elements to be included in the final product are using a central image, color scheme based on the image, sampled fonts, and maintaining a 60% text to 40% image ratio.
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The document describes the evaluation of a student's magazine cover and contents page. It discusses how the products use conventions of real magazines, such as including a masthead on the cover with title and issue information. It also notes how new media technologies were used, including a digital SLR to take photos, Photoshop to edit images and create the cover, and Quark to layout the contents page. Both strengths and weaknesses are evaluated, with weaknesses including non-professional fonts and needing better edited images, and strengths being using a coherent color scheme and including different sized headings.
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The document discusses the progression and learning from the preliminary task to the final product. Specifically:
- Images improved by taking better quality photos with knowledge of camera settings and editing in Photoshop.
- Text and layout improved by using bolder fonts, drop shadows, and Photoshop skills like layers to make the front cover and contents page more professional looking.
- The double page spread layout was informed by research into magazine conventions and applied skills learned to create an interesting flowing design similar to examples seen.
- Overall, learning new techniques in photography, Photoshop, and magazine design conventions led to a much more professional final product compared to the preliminary task.
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The document provides information on different types of digital graphics file formats including raster graphics, vector graphics, JPEG, TIFF, PSD, AI, 3DS. It then discusses a student's digital graphics project involving designing a t-shirt featuring a character from Adventure Time. The student used rotoscoping to create the character image, included text inside the character's mouth, and received peer feedback on the final design which noted the strengths of the rotoscoping but identified areas for improvement like the character's arms and fingers.
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The document describes screenshots from the creation of a double page magazine spread. It details changes made between each screenshot, including importing and resizing images, adding and formatting text, adjusting font sizes and styles, and changing colors. The goal was to refine the layout and design to make elements like the masthead and quotes more prominent. Tools used included text, image, move, and formatting tools. The last section reflects on skills learned like making drop caps, importing images, and using text boxes and shapes.
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- 2. Front Cover Process I started my front cover with an image of a band off google. The image was not big enough to fill the screen so I had to stamp the color and cover the top half of the screen. I used the colors of the image throughout the rest of the cover, taking samples of their masks/clothes and using those colors on writing. I then added some smaller images and thought of a title. The tag line was simple and I put it on an angle to add to the aesthetic of the magazine.
- 3. Reflection • What elements of your experiments will you include in your final product? I will use a central image and also have a colour scheme based around the image. The fonts I used in my experiment here good and I also plan on using some of them.
- 4. Double Page Process I used an average layout for my pictures and text breaking it into a main story and a smaller story. The ratio of text to image is about 60% text to 40% image, this is good for a dps as it has enough pictures to be eye- catching and enough information to be interesting
- 5. Reflection • What elements of your experiments will you include in your final product? The ratio of image to text Some of the text layout
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