Magazine Mock Ups

Write Up for Front Cover

Although the photograph itself took some rather major changes throughout the course of my final design I did frame in knowledge that I would need space to insert sell lines and a title etc. therefore I placed the subject of my photograph or rather the model at the bottom right of the original photograph to leave room. I had some trouble ordering the model as it took some patience in getting it so that his leg was in mid air when the photograph was taken. I directing this matter of timing by counting downing from three also in contention with the camera on a tripod and I kept my finger half down on the trigger so that the camera was already in focus. I also used a quick shutter speed so I did not any motion blur. Due to it being a location shot, I couldn’t use lighting therefore I had to rely on the natural light, unfortunately the weather wasn’t great therefore I had to compensate by removing the background from the subject then adding lighting effects using Photoshop. For the settings for the camera I attempted to make sure that the lens focus and iso was all on the model as to blur out the background due to the bad weather.

In Photoshop I used gridlines as to centralise my image better in the page and avoid the sometimes inevitable cropping of the page during printing. In the design I downloaded a font, as to give my design a more personal feel and to cater for it better than the default fonts available. I chose the font style I did as it caters towards my young target audience and gives off a feeling of rebellion and breaking free from the mould. Within designing this front cover I did implement a few new tools, for example, the quick selection tool that I used by selecting the background by dragging and clicking the mouse then deleting it thus easily removing the background of my image. I used the desaturate tool of which I have used before although after it I used the photo filter feature that allowed me overlay I colour right over my image. The colour scheme I used was fairly basic, too keep to it I desaturated all my images then added the same colour photo filter onto them, then add a white stroke. I cropped my image to remove the background as I only wanted the subject of the photograph and therefore this left the background inadequate.  The text alignment I used was very basic as I left all the text on a  left orientation this is so I could separate the image and the text so that they seemed more in proportion to the size of the page. The barcode that I imported I simply copied and pasted from a internet browser then placed it into my design as a new layer.

The language that I have used I have attempted to use aspiration, as in to motivate the reader into doing something. I have done this as by using anecdotes’ such as reach for the sky. The connotation of my image is really basic in nature. I made the tree larger yet the model smaller then with the title stating reach for the sky this gives the reader the impression that although this person is much smaller than its opponent he is still attempting to climb it as seen through his stance.