Monday 4 March 2013

Production Log #42

This is my last production log of the blog, before I begin talking about my final and what I am going to do next I want to say that I really enjoyed creating this blog and it was a great experience and I really developed my planning skills! 

Now your thinking whats this post
 going to be about right?
Moving on I am very happy with my final piece and I feel personally that it looks really real! I would buy it if I saw it in a shop, Antonia was a great model chose and I got to thank her for her hard work, it's OK I brought her a Nando's in return :D. I am now going to finish this blog with my 7 Evaluation questions, I am going to try change the format of each evaluation to make it look creative and interesting! I want to finish my blog on a good note so I need to put a lot of effort in my evaluation.

This is Johnny Fonseca singing off, Peace

Saturday 2 March 2013

Production Log #41

I have just received feedback from my older brother who loves classic/Motown R&B so I knew he was going to be perfect for my feedback, he is actually a subscriber for VIBE magazine so he is use to the magazine format. He actually gave me so much useful feedback that it actually made my magazine look professional and realistic, also instead of making him writing about what he thought I recorded it!  Yet again I added a black and white filter to keep the theme going and this time I used a Ne-Yo song from his new album R.E.D. Lastly I did some quick designing on Photoshop and created a banner for my blog but still keeping the R&B theme going, I also came across a cool looking black background on Google image. I then had to change some of the text to white/grey/gold on blog. The colours on my blog also link with the colours used in my magazine!

Friday 1 March 2013

Single Page Contact Sheet & Ideas


Here is the contact sheet for my single page which I got asked to do by my older brother as he felt there was a lack of her "normal" life, I took advantage with this request and noticed an absence in colour in my magazine. This meant that I had to focus on adding colour into my single page. A problem I encountered when I began creating my magazine was I had already finished the article on the previous double page, however I then began looking at a magazine called "Grazia" even thought it is a fashion magazine I took a look at the magazine and got an idea of adding an "Ups and Downs" part to the single page, this meant I was able to get personal with the fans and talk about Antonias life before she got famous and her live as she is famous and the differences, the fans will feel more connected with the singer as her old life is getting involved.  I felt that it was best to talk about the difference with her Living, Fashion and Celebrities. To the side there is a boxed section which has a yellow colour to illustrate the highs and the black to represent the lows, I am going to mimic this but twist it into music and Antonias lifestyle. I am going to at least try to encounter some gold text or a white glow to illustrate that the magazine is flowing and that this page does connect with the overall Antonia section. Lastly I had a tough decision about where I should take the final shot and how I should take it, for this shoot I simply told Antonia to be herself, I told her to come in the current clothes she is in which will illustrate her "normal" side. She then came in a nice dress and her hair tied up which was perfect. Now it was my job about where to take the photo, I didn't actually like the way my house looked in the background so I used my neighbors front gate (with permission!) as an area which Antonia could be in front of, I did this too see as if behind her was her actual house. I took the photo in many different poses and angels however the most simple one won. Eye level with looking straight at Antonia combined with a simple natural simple, perfect.