Creation of the Film Review Magazine

HELK PRODUCTIONS

Why InDesign over Photoshop?

InDesign allowed us to create a magazine which had multiple layers, it’s much easier to view the layers as it’s clearly laid out. The magazine is a print design document and in Photoshop the magazine review would have been rendered in RGB colour whereas an InDesign document is automatically set to CMYK which is better for print design work. CMYK colour is much richer and does look better once it’s been printed.

InDesign gives users more control over typography whereas Photoshop focuses on the visual side of creation, typography definitely played a strong role in the creation of the film review as we had to search and install custom fonts as the standard fonts weren’t what we expecting so we decided to use the font Bebas Neue in Bold.

Why InDesign over Photoshop?

For someone who is just starting to create print work it’s easier to use as everything is clearly labelled, it’s much simpler whereas Photoshop a lot of tweaks need to be made to make something look the way you want and InDesign has a tone of pre-sets which will help a newbie get a custom to the in’s and outs of the software.

InDesign allowed us to create margins for the magazine so everything was in columns, there was the same amount of space between columns, they were the same amount distance away from the bottom of the page.

Did We use Photoshop?

Yes, we used Photoshop for the images as the film was yet to be colour graded and made darker, so in one of the two images we had to apply a navy blue filter and then change the opacity of the filter to make it look like the evening and to make it look like it was in the evening and no too dark.