Each week I am going to makie time to update my blog to let other's know how my production is going and what challenges I am facing and how i've overcome them.
The first day that I started the project I already had ideas of what I wanted to have in my pictures, therefore I started to put on photoshop the ideas that I had in my head and also start the production time table that I would be following from as my production goes on. I also took the beginning stages to book my photo shoot, once I had thought of my final idea I had to go out and buy the props for the shoot and start to choose fonts and colours for the articles.
The week beginning 7th March was the week of my photoshoot, the shoot went very well I took some great pictures that were all different in their own way, because of the way i'd positioned the lights outside the photo and the different types that I used. This is what I had came up with at the end of the shoot as you can see there is a small light on the floor on the right hand side, this is a special light used especially for water photo's and it basically shines a light directly on to the tank so that the water looks clear therefore if the tank isn't a clear tank it can be fixed with this light. Because my tank was blue this light was almost essential to the shoot because without it the photo would look almost amature which isn't what the aim of my production is, my aim is to be taken seriously with serious photo's and articles. This is my finished image, the image that I am going to be using on the front cover of my magazine, I chose this one because it looked the most professional out of all the other pictures I took, when you look at the image its obvious whats going on in the image to the audience and that is another objective of mine. Also on this Week I started to look at lay outs of magazines so that I could decide what lay out I would like to use on my magazine.
Week beginning 21st March 2011, this week my aims are to get my articles written and start to piece together my magazine, recently last week I ran into some trouble and wrote my article wrong, I wont go into details however it resulted into re-writting my article so I guess you could say I'm now slightly behind. Writting a new article shouldn't take me long, however it also means I need to gather new research to put into my article which is what's going to make it take a bit longer. I also wish to put font into my article and have an experiment with that. Last week because the only thing I had my mind set on was to write articles a week has been wasted, I did however put my main photo on to a new document on to photoshop and edited it therefore that is ready to become my front cover. I also had the problem last week that I had made my images from my photo shoot in a landscape way, instead of portraight, I had to overcome this by going into photo shop and copying the top of the photo then almost stretching it out to create an effect of portrait photo.
This is the final week of my production week beginning 28/03/2011, this week I hope to finish all of my work, my front cover and double page spread, last week I managed to get half of my double page spread, this week I hope to complete that with the extra hours I am getting from free periods and staying in college after hours.
This is my final post, I have completed all of my production work now in this final week of 11th April, 2011 I am hoping to write all my evaluations, it has been a good year and I am proud of my achievements.
I then used the spot healing tool on this mock front cover to make the image look professional.
