The document describes editing processes used to improve a photo for a film magazine. It discusses: - The original photo showing a character in a grey hoodie to subvert stereotypes, with a dark lighting. - Editing in Photoshop to lighten the face, darken shades, and change the hoodie to white to emphasize mystery. Tools like color vibrancy and balance were used. - Revisions between two drafts of the magazine layout to improve professionalism by standardizing fonts, removing unnecessary page numbers, adjusting the masthead, and better utilizing blank space.

1. Editing; Magazine

2. Initial Photo
• This was the original photo in which I had taken of
Fred. What I was trying to do while taking this
photo was use conventions of urban dramas. One of
the main conventions in which was used was the
hoodie and this because this a stereotypical clothing
in which “hoodlums” tend to wear. The reasoning
behind the white/grey hoodie was to amplify to the
audience that the main character is not your
stereotypical hoodlum and that he has a plot twist
to him and therefore rather than the character just
wearing a common black hoodie I choose to subvert
to the common regularities of hood characters. Also
with this photo this was the first and there was no
editing done to the photo and what I knew that I
wanted to add a chiaroscuro lighting to give the
effect of a dark character to therefore show that he
is a mysterious character.

3. Photoshop
• These are some of the editing processes in which I went
through. The main software in which I was using was
Photoshop. The reason for this is because it allowed me
edit and cut out unnecessary parts off. As you can see from
the first image that is was just a plain image and the image
was quite dark so I had realised that I needed to lighten up
the face so I needed to brighten the contrast of his face.
While playing around with his face I started to darken a
shade of his face giving the mystery effect by lighting up
his face it brought out the characters stern face more.
Colour Vibrancies and Colour Balance were the features
which mainly helped to make the photo come out this way.
Also with the hoodie as it was grey and I wanted a white
hoodie what I done was lighten up the shade of the jumper
to make it look m ore white and this done once again
through colour vibrancies and the brightening the contrast
in a particular area

4. Drafting
• This is my Film Magazine on the left is my first draft and on the right is my second draft.
On the first draft the problems in which I had with the magazine was that there was too
many different fonts in which was used which made the magazine look unprofessional so
what I done to take action was on the final draft what get rid of the different fonts and
change them to one. What was also done was that I had changed the layout because I
had added page numbers on the front which was not needed to be added therefore on
the final product I removed all the page numbers . With the masthead I had tweaked it
around because I had pulled down the “SCREEN” because it was too high and with the
website I moved it from the bottom where the barcode was to the top of the screen
where there was just plain space so using all the areas which are plain