2. Photography Skills
Since starting my production of my Indie
magazine my photography skills have
improved vastly, I have had time to
experiment with angles and different shot
types within media to also help me decide
how it would affect the audience. I have
also learnt how to control the lighting in
photography, contrasting and brightness
which allows images to stand out. This
helped me in achieving a more successful
magazine.
3. Photo editing
Since starting my production of my Indie magazine my photo editing skills have improved as I
know how to change the colour, lighting, contrast effectively to make the image look more
professional, I have also learnt how to edit and remove the background of an image so I can then
insert them onto a page and make it transparent colour, this is helpful and will make my images
look more professional.
I have also learnt how to adjust the lighting of my images to allow them to stand out, which is
typical for my genre so this would be appealing to the audience and be conventional for the
genre. This is what I have done on the image above, I edited the colour and adjusted the lighting
to enhance certain features on the artists face.
I have learnt how to save my images as a JPEG so they are easily transferrable and will allow me
to easily insert them where I want.
I have also learnt how to crop and resize images to scale so they will fit where I want
them, allowing me to create a more professional- looking page.
Overall these skills that I have developed have allowed me to create a more successful magazine.
4. Programs used
I used publisher as the base of my work for my
front cover, contents page and double page
spread so I could then use a variety of different
software's in the process of creating my
magazine. I also used fireworks and photo shop
to edit the image of my artist on my double page
spread. I was able to remove background, edit
the colour and brightness of an image. Here I
edited my main image to make it brighter to
appeal to my audience and I also edited it to
enhance features of the artists face.
5. Conventions
Throughout my production I have learnt what type of
fonts are suited to my genre and other genres, Indie genre
being sans serif font. I have also learnt how to create a
house style to make all my pages link together, making it
appealing to my target audience. I have learnt what makes
a conventional layout –specifically for my genre. This also
allowed me to set my layout in a way that is appealing to
my audience, It is clear, neat and organised, easy to
navigate around, which is helpful to them.
