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Evaluation Part 3

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What I Learnt In Photoshop

When creating my media products making them suitable for the target audience that I had analysed and discovered through my audience research, I had to learn very quickly about photoshop because I had never used it before.

But what I did learn through photoshop was how to edit images and add images, this was done through finding a suitable font for my headings through UrbanFonts.com and print screening the image from there to edit in photoshop, changing the colours and editing the size to make it suitable to place within my Contents/Front Cover/Main Feature Spread pages.

When placing in images, text and etc, I learnt that Photoshop had provided layers to make the image look more natural and realistic, so it took me a while to adapt to this before I could understand fully what to do in terms of adding effects such as smoke and overlays. 

Next I learnt how to erase facial features upon the magazine with the "Spot healing brush tool." This was very useful because it helped my star vehicle/model look like perfection in terms of presentation just like the many other rock genre magazines I had analysed.

In terms of affects I learnt when I was adding smoke upon my main feature, that you could affect the opaque settings and the appearance, this helped me quite a lot because it went with the theme of my star vehicle calling her album "Smoke Screen."

Un-Used Photo's

This image was not used because the majority of my target audience would not have preferred this image for the front cover or even in any of the magazine, mainly because my model looks very nervous trying to get comfortable with the photoshoot, therefore it wouldn't fall under any theorists that would be suitable for this music genre.    

I found this image too dark and unsuitable for the magazine by the pose, the majority of the target audience would find this image too unappealing to the rock genre and would not fall under any theorists such as Blumer and Katz (1974) and Stanley Hall.

I didn't chose this image because it basically was too far away (long shot) and there isn't anything in to support the theorists that are suitable for my target audience. Also in terms of experimenting with mise-en-sense the whole of the guitar didn't fit in the photoshot so I didn't place it into any of my work.

This image was not used in my work because it contained some of the background scenery outside the shooting area and the angle of the photograph is not in the aim I would have preferred it to make this image suitable for the magazine as well as my target audience and theorists.

 

My model in this picture looks very nervous, as this was the very first photo that was taken of her, so therefore i didn't place this inside my work for this reason, it would have been unsuitable for the magazine in terms of stereotypes and theorists for the target audience.

These images within my magazine because the majority of them were just rough photo's I took because I hadn't used a photography camera and it took me a short period of time to adapt to the settings and controls. Also as their early images, my model had to find her comfort zone before getting comfortable with the posing for the magazine. But these images are a variety of medium shots and close ups of my model posing in her batman fan clothing.

Overall some of this images does not suit the Stanley Hall or  Laura Mulvey theory.

These images would not be suitable for the Laura Mulvey (1975) because my model is not in the images portrayed as a lady with perfect hair or got the camera aimed at certain area's of her figure to attract a male audience.

In terms of the Stanley Hall theory (1904), my model would not had fallen in this stereotype because like I mentioned earlier, some of these images were just my model finding her comfort zone before she could pose confidently, so some images are not depressed, sex or criminal like.

But if I were to apply an theorist to my model it would be the Medhurst (1998); "their awful because their not like us" because my model ain't afraid to stand out with her trend or personality traits.

Contents Page For Loud Rock

Creating Of My Double Page Spread

This was the image I had chosen to use against the plain background for my magazine main double page spread, the reason I had chosen this is because it will suit the theme of my star vehicles album titled "Smoke Screen" wearing a gas mask and I originally plan on using smoke in the image later on to match the theme. This will suit my target audience who fall under the Blumer and Katz (1974) theory because they will want to read this page for their own reasons out the list. Whilst the black background will be suitable for the target audience who fall under the Stanley Hall (1904) theory because he states that youth's are very moody and the colour could connote depression or misunderstood.

After trying to add smoke into my image, it didn't quite work out to how I had planned because of the wall background and graffiti in my main image. So instead I played with the opacity settings within photoshop and got this as an end result, this will suit the satisfaction for my target audience who are rebellious because the graffiti in my main image stands out even more and therefore will suit my target theorists who are applied within my target audience Stanley Hall.

Thirdly I then added some more images within my work to make sure there were a variety of 5/6 images. These images had no effects placed upon them and I had chosen them to use in my work because they suited the theme for the "Smoke Screen" album with mise-en-sense such as the gas mask, meaning it will be suitable for my target audience who fall under the Blumer and Katz theory.

Fourthly I added a white opaque box behind the images and rubbed out certain parts to make the images look as if they are old and shattered photographs, making it suitable for the target audience because they will enjoy the rebellious looking style running through the magazine.

After finding a suitable font to use as my headline within UrbanFonts.Com. I then copied and pasted the font into photoshop and recoloured the font before cutting it out and placing it onto my black background. The reason I had chosen red for my second main colour was because it will suit the Stanley Hall theory in terms of how colour will connote moods within youths, meaning it will be suitable for my target audience.

The reason why I have placed my main title in the middle of the page is because after seeing the page I analysed from Kerrang! I noticed that their main title was also spread across the double page spread, not being to affected when it is printed. 

A blank white box was then added into the right side of the page because it will later on be room for an Album review from an rock album of my choice. But I had chosen a white box because it will stand out with black text and catch the readers attention, meaning it will be suitable for the target audience who fall under the Blumer and Katz theory.

This is when I added the text onto the image as well as the Loud Rock magazine logo. The reason why I bolded the questions being asked was to make them stand out and separate from the answer that my star vehicle Jessica Benn had given. Being suitable for the target audience who fall under the Blumer and Katz theory. The main story will relate to the star vehicle promoting her new album and the text within the white box was a album review upon the rock star vehicle called "Slash" from the rock band "Guns N Roses." Now all that will be left to do will be to add a quote from the interview, which will most likely be in the colour green to represent bitching and jealousy, following the Stanley Hall's theory.

 This is the finishing product!

Un-Used Fonts

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The reason I didnt chose these fonts to use in my work is because it didn't suit the theorists (Stanley Hall and Laura Mulvey) that apply to my target audience, females who are aged between 17-19 and are in the social class of D/C.

But I did create them because they were inspirations at the time for the rock magazine before I gained more information about my target audience.