Image Manipulation Record
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Recording how and why I have manipulated images by using Photoshop, in cases such as the photo from my front cover of my media product.
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Presentation1
The document describes the process taken to design a magazine cover in Photoshop. Key steps included cutting out an image, scaling it to the desired size, adding a masthead text box at the top-third of the cover using the Arial font, deciding on a blue/white/grey/black color scheme for the background and text, and adding cover lines and a barcode styled as a tattoo on the model's arm to make it look more professional. The finished cover included the masthead, scaled image, cover lines on the left side, a date, website and gutter with extra features.
evaluation - conventions
The document discusses the conventions and design choices made for a magazine. It follows conventions like using a masthead, barcode, cover lines, date, price, and straplines. However, it aims to appeal to younger audiences unlike similar magazines. While major magazines use obvious 3-column text layouts, the document spreads text and images more which could be improved. Photos were edited in Photoshop to improve quality and match the vintage color scheme. Font and image editing were chosen to portray an authentic vintage style while still appealing to younger readers. Cinematography conventions like medium close-ups were used but the front cover featured a long shot of a band to challenge conventions.
Final Presentation
The document discusses the design choices made for a new music and fashion magazine. It aimed to combine music, fashion, and beauty in a stylish yet simple way. Inspired by magazines like Vogue and Elle, it uses a serif font for the masthead and titles, keeps colors limited to black and cream, and features full-page model photos on the cover and interior pages to highlight fashionable styles. Reader feedback found the magazine's layout and resemblance to Vogue to be its strongest aspects.
evaluaton1
The document describes the design choices for the masthead, cover, and contents page of a magazine prototype. For the masthead, red was chosen to catch attention and represent hip hop. A simple bold font was used. The cover features two female models to challenge gender norms in hip hop magazines. Inspiration was drawn from magazines like XXL and The Source to have a professional look while also being unique. The contents page uses a play button icon and separates sections with lines for easy reading.
Proposal
This proposal outlines Simran Jabbal's project titled "Project Lola" focused on print and photography. The rationale discusses Simran's skills with InDesign for page layouts and Photoshop for image editing. The project concept is to create promotional materials for a fictional upcoming female artist, including a poster with tour dates, a magazine cover and spread, and a photography portfolio. Simran plans to research existing magazines, portfolios, and merchandise for inspiration and will evaluate their work through a weekly production diary, analysis of how research informed the work, and peer and audience feedback on strengths and weaknesses.
Conventions
This document discusses conventions of magazines and music videos. It explains that magazines typically include elements like a strap line, masthead, splash, kicker, barcode/price, and cover line. Music videos often tell abstract narratives that leave some elements open to interpretation. Indie music values independence and uniqueness. The document also discusses how the author's own magazine follows conventions, including a masthead, strap line, cover line, barcode/price, and contents page with pictures of features. It aims to balance images and text on double page spreads.
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This document analyzes the mise-en-scene of indie musicians to replicate for a magazine feature. It will look at clothing, makeup, and mood of photo shoots from different indie bands like HAIM. The analysis of HAIM photos from Notion and NME magazines shows differing moods - Notion is dark and mysterious while NME is playful. Props like bikes and cameras depict a youthful, fun attitude. Clothing like band t-shirts is stereotypically indie.
Screenshots of tools used on my magazine
The document discusses the use of various selection, editing, and design tools in a photo editing program to create a magazine that follows the codes and conventions of an example magazine. The tools allowed the user to select, highlight, and cut out parts of images, smooth out spots and marks, change colors, and add text. Using these tools ensured the magazine looked professional and accurately replicated the style of the original example magazine.
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Proposal
This proposal outlines Simran Jabbal's project titled "Project Lola" focused on print and photography. The rationale discusses Simran's skills with InDesign for page layouts and Photoshop for image editing. The project concept is to create promotional materials for a fictional upcoming female artist, including a poster with tour dates, a magazine cover and spread, and a photography portfolio. Simran plans to research existing magazines, portfolios, and merchandise for inspiration and will evaluate their work through a weekly production diary, analysis of how research informed the work, and peer and audience feedback on strengths and weaknesses.
Conventions
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This document analyzes the mise-en-scene of indie musicians to replicate for a magazine feature. It will look at clothing, makeup, and mood of photo shoots from different indie bands like HAIM. The analysis of HAIM photos from Notion and NME magazines shows differing moods - Notion is dark and mysterious while NME is playful. Props like bikes and cameras depict a youthful, fun attitude. Clothing like band t-shirts is stereotypically indie.
Screenshots of tools used on my magazine
The document discusses the use of various selection, editing, and design tools in a photo editing program to create a magazine that follows the codes and conventions of an example magazine. The tools allowed the user to select, highlight, and cut out parts of images, smooth out spots and marks, change colors, and add text. Using these tools ensured the magazine looked professional and accurately replicated the style of the original example magazine.
Media Evaluation
The document summarizes the key design elements and choices made in constructing a magazine cover and sample interior pages. These include using large mastheads and images that grab attention without direct eye contact. Color schemes and styles are carried throughout for unity. Layout, images, and relevant information are used to attract the target audience of late teens interested in indie music. Technologies like Photoshop tools for selections, layers, and color adjustments were applied to produce high quality edited images for the magazine.
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The document discusses the learning experiences the author gained from creating two magazines - a college magazine and a music magazine focused on indie rock. For the college magazine, the author struggled with photography, layout, and font/text design, producing an unfocused magazine. However, for the music magazine, the author learned to use photography equipment better, employ conventional magazine layouts, and improve font/text to attract readers. The key lessons were considering the target audience and improving technical skills to produce a higher quality, professionally designed magazine.
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The student created a music magazine aimed at teenagers aged 15-18 who are interested in indie music. To attract their target audience, the student used a bold masthead in red, catchy strapline, large cover photo, and pull quotes. The main article profiled an indie band as role models who achieved their dreams. Feedback praised the magazine's professional layout, images, and font choices. In creating the magazine, the student learned how to make the design attractive and readable for the audience through techniques like large photos and pull quotes in key locations.
Front cover development diary
The document describes the design process for the front cover of a magazine called Development Diary Front Cover. Specifically, it discusses:
1) Using blending options to add a drop shadow and glow to the masthead text to make it stand out and appeal to the target indie/rock music audience.
2) Creating a circular insert with contest text to catch readers' eyes and incentivize them to buy the magazine, advertising tickets to a music festival that the target audience would enjoy.
3) Drawing a rectangle box to contain a strapline at the top of the cover also advertising an upcoming music festival lineup, in red to match the magazine's color scheme.
Front cover development diary
The document describes the design process for the front cover of a magazine called Development Diary Front Cover. Specifically, it discusses:
1) Using blending options to add a drop shadow and glow to the masthead text to make it stand out and appeal to the target indie/rock music audience.
2) Creating a circular insert with contest text to catch readers' eyes and incentivize them to purchase the magazine, advertising tickets to a music festival that the target audience would enjoy.
3) Drawing a rectangle box to contain a strapline at the top of the cover also advertising an upcoming music festival lineup, in line with magazine conventions.
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Evaluation
The document describes the student's music magazine media product. They used conventions of real magazines, including a masthead on the front cover to identify the publication. On the contents page, they used bold headings and page numbers to list articles, and images to represent the pieces. For a double page article spread, they used a quote headline and images to illustrate the story. Overall, the student drew upon typical magazine design elements but also included some original photography to develop the format.
Evaluation
The document describes the student's music magazine media product. They used conventions of real magazines, including a masthead on the front cover to identify the publication. For the contents page, they used bold headings and page numbers to list articles, and images to represent each piece. On a double page spread, they featured a quote from an artist as the headline and included two images to illustrate the story. Overall, the student aimed to attract a young adult audience by representing contemporary music genres and styles through the designs, images and content of the magazine.
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Human: Thank you for the summary. Can you please summarize the following document in 3 sentences
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The student has constructed a music magazine aimed at teenagers between 15-18 years old who are interested in indie music. To attract their target audience, the student uses conventions from real music magazines such as a bold masthead, large cover photo, pull quotes, and questions from readers. The student chose to distribute the magazine online initially to test audience interest before potential print distribution. Through the process of constructing the magazine using Publisher, the student learned how to make the magazine more professional by using large photos and pull quotes in key locations.
Question 1 - conventions
This document provides details from the creator of a music magazine on the design choices made for various elements of the magazine, including the masthead, front cover, contents page, and a double page spread. For the masthead, the creator was inspired by the graphic style of "Little White Lies" magazine. On the front cover, a portrait photo was used to draw the reader in along with impactful text. The contents page continued the circular graphic elements and used images and colors to stand out. The double page spread showed the minimal black and white house style.
Evaluation
The document is an evaluation of a music magazine product created by the author. It discusses various design elements of the magazine including the masthead, cover layout, contents page, double page spread, color palette, and target audience. The author aimed to challenge conventions by using multiple small images on the double page spread and descriptive paragraphs in an article. The target audience is teenage girls aged 14-19. The author learned skills in Photoshop and the importance of taking quality source images during the production process.
Evaluation
The document describes a music magazine product created by the author for evaluation. Key details include:
- The masthead and cover design conventions used to attract readers and represent the genre of music magazine.
- Layout of contents page and use of images, boxes, and questions to entice readers.
- Representation of the target audience of teenage girls through cover images and topics.
- Selection of IPC Media as the ideal distributor due to their existing music magazine portfolio.
Evaluation
The document describes a music magazine product created by the author for evaluation. Key details include using a recognizable masthead positioned at the top of the page, including pricing and issue information in the top right corner, and using a dominant cover image similar to other music magazines. The contents page follows a traditional symmetrical layout with article descriptions. The double page spread uses many small collaged images rather than a single large one for variation. The intended audience is teenage girls aged 14-19 interested in various music genres. IPC Media would be a suitable distributor due to their existing music magazine portfolio.
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Part 1 discusses the front cover, including use of house colors, large central image, cover lines, masthead placement, and other design elements.
Part 2 covers the contents page, omitting some typical elements like charts to reduce clutter, and including images and listings to guide readers.
Part 3 analyzes the features page layout, with a double page spread using house colors, large central image, headlines in color across the page, body copy split into columns, and other formatting choices informed by other magazines.
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The document summarizes the design choices made for a student magazine cover. It aimed to communicate connotations of being youthful, energetic, lively, fashionable, fun, informal, playful and casual. A medium close-up picture was used for the background with the masthead in black and white Arial font in the top left. The target audience was identified as aspirers and hedonists based on psychographic and social value groups. A 17-year old girl was featured to attract students. Black, white and glowing text colors made the magazine seem youthful and informal. Constructing the cover taught skills in using Photoshop and InDesign tools like layers, the clone stamp, and magnetic lasso.
Evaluation 2.0
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Screenshots of Front Cover and Contents Page
The document describes the process of designing a magazine cover in Photoshop. First, the main image was centered on the page with white space left at the top. Coverlines, issue number, date and barcode were then added around the image. Next, the background was removed from the image using the magic wand tool to avoid clashing colors. A grey ombre background was added and coverlines were framed around the model. The final cover followed conventions from magazines like Kerrang by having a simple background and prominently featured coverline to catch readers' eyes.
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Question 3 Answers
The document summarizes feedback from a focus group about a music video. The focus group generally understood the narrative of the video and felt it effectively represented the indie genre. Some said the narrative was not completely straightforward but that was appropriate. Members were attracted to the editing techniques, footage, and indie style. Minor improvements like adding more performance clips were suggested but the overall feedback was positive about achieving the goals of representing the genre and telling a narrative.
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- Layout of contents page and use of images, boxes, and questions to entice readers.
- Representation of the target audience of teenage girls through cover images and topics.
- Selection of IPC Media as the ideal distributor due to their existing music magazine portfolio.
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The iconography on the CD cover of Lana Del Rey's "Born to Die" album includes roses representing love and romance, as well as Del Rey's vintage style of clothing and makeup. The simple setting of a blue sky and old car helps Del Rey stand out as the focus. Del Rey is portrayed in a medium shot from a low angle, representing her unique vintage style and empowerment. While there is no explicit narrative, the cover implies that Del Rey's music has a vintage theme and portrays her as confident and different from typical pop artists by not being provocative.
Rihanna - Loud
Rihanna's album cover features only her as the character, with red hair and makeup suggesting themes of love, passion, anger or danger in her music. Her facial expression looks down provocatively, possibly representing feelings of hurt. A photograph inside shows her lying among roses provocatively, indicating her music deals with sexuality and relationships. The studio lighting and high key photographs make her appealing visually and help represent the album's themes of love through symbols like red and roses.
Analyse of survey responses
- The respondent conducted a survey to inform the creation of their music video, receiving responses primarily from females aged 17-25.
- Results indicated a preference for narrative or performance-style videos in genres like pop, indie, and rock. However, dance and electronic genres were also mentioned.
- When asked directly, respondents indicated indie, rock, and pop as preferred genres for a music video, though some mentioned alternative and electronic/club genres.
- Overall, the survey provided useful insights but also had some biases due to the dominated demographic that responded. The respondent will consider a wide target audience when creating their music video.
Ed sheeran A Team Analysis
1) The music video tells the story of a young female character who is homeless and engages in prostitution to earn money.
2) Scenes show her wearing worn clothing and waiting on a dark street, emphasizing the voyeuristic male gaze and implying she exchanges sex for money.
3) The video uses black and white filming and dark imagery to portray her emotionally numb and difficult lifestyle, while religious symbols represent her struggle and hope for redemption.
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This advertisement for the band The Kooks' new album features a blue heart with the album title "Listen" written in different languages inside. The blue color and heart shape could represent themes of sadness or a cold emotional state rather than love. The typeface used throughout is bold and masculine, reflecting the style of music The Kooks produce. Quotes from newspapers praising the album aim to intrigue audiences and make them want to listen to the music. Overall the visual and textual elements leave viewers with questions about the album's themes and sound.
Ed sheeran A Team
1) The music video tells the story of a young female character who is homeless and engages in prostitution to earn money.
2) Scenes depict her wearing worn clothing and waiting on a dark street, highlighting her vulnerable situation.
3) The video analyzes how camera shots and lighting emphasize her body and conform to stereotypes of female prostitutes, applying theories of the male gaze.
4) Symbols like candles and her outstretched arms suggest religious references or a desire for freedom from her difficult life circumstances.
Music Video Analysis
1) The music video tells the story of a young female character who is homeless and engages in prostitution to earn money.
2) Visual cues like her torn clothing suggest she is emotionally damaged while scenes of her waiting on dark streets and meeting men in cars establish her lifestyle.
3) The black and white cinematography and dark imagery symbolize the emotionless and difficult life she leads, while lyrics about angels may reference her purity or her drug addiction.
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