It is apparent through my work that I have been learning while producing each page. I think my font choice is more appropriate, in my preliminary task there were various fonts randomly placed for no real reason, whereas in my current pages the fonts were selected carefully to suit the page and connote certain feelings.
In my preliminary task there was no context or real meaning behind the magazine but with current project i've been able to play around with colour and edit certain images to give the magazine meaning through sybolism. This allowed me to experiment more with different tools and I was able to apply different effects to different areas on my pages that I never knew existed. I'm glad I was able to work on three pages for the full product as this gave me more of a chance to progressively learn things. At the begining the attention to detail was poor and this resulted in badly cropped images and untidy arrangement of text - this changed when producing the second magazine as I discovered the quick select tool and different lasso tools which helped crop the images more accurately. I also had a better understanding of resolution and dimensions once I started the actual product.
The shots for my current project were planned out more thoroughly than the ones for the preliminary task as each photo had to communicate a certain feeling or hint at certain situations the artist was in. I did a storyboard before the shoot for the actual magazine but for the preliminary task cover I didn't plan at all.I had to follow the concept of mise en scene to convey certain aspects of the artist's life which could be deciphered from, lighting, props, positions; facial expressions had to be specific. In the preliminary task, the aim was to take a photo that I thought just looked good without wanting to portray a specific message.
There were some things I wish I had learned earlier that would have made the production process a lot more easy. During the time I was making my first two pages, I wasn't aware that I could download fonts from the computers at school because I assumed that the action was blocked, so all the text in the first two pages were from cropped screenshots - this was extremely time consuming but I prefered that rather than the pre-installed fonts on Photoshop.
Through experimenting I was able to create different colour combinations, admittedly, to begin with they looked pretty bad but as I progressed I was able to create some colour themes that nicely complimented the individual pages. I also changed the lighting in some of the photos I took through photoshop so they fit better on the page. As I experimented I found myself taking more risks by furthering myself from the standard coventions, mainly in the first two pages - which explains the more abstact appearance.
No comments:
Post a Comment