Q.6 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this

product?

To start my research for my magazine I had to look at other rock magazines and how they look, I researched most of this on Google looking at different magazines. I looked at the placing of photo’s and also the text and the language of how they present it on the page.

I searched the front covers, contents page and double page spreads to see how most of them are laid out so I knew how to make mine. This research gave me help on how most of rock magazines are like.

Throughout my magazine I have been putting my research on blogger so all the research is organised and easy to get to. It has helped a lot blogging everything, I can put different parts on which I can go back and add to like planning.

Blogger is also good for keep track of all my lessons and what I have done in them by writing a diary and adding to it each day about what I did in the lesson.

To make my front cover, contents page and double page spread I had to take a number of photographs to go into my product. I took my photos with a number of different camera which I think were the best for that moment. For taking live shots when I watched the bands I used a small compact Kodak camera.While taking photographs for my double page spread I used two camera’s one Fujifilm FinePix S2500 and Pentax K100D. This gave me a range of different looks in my photographs.

Throughout the making of my product I have been editing on an editing software called Photoshop. I have used it for editing my front cover image and using it as a tool for designing the front cover. While making the front cover I have used tools for editing the photo. I have use tools such as the eye dropper to get the same colour for parts of the face so I can colour things like the light in the eye making it look normal without the light in the eye but having the same colour from around the edges so it doesn’t look fake.

I also used Photoshop for creating the front cover. I used tools such as the layer style so I could add a shadow behind the main photograph.

Using photoshop

For one of my images on my front cover I wanted to make the photo stand out so I right clicked on the photo layer and went on layer style before adding a drop shadow.

To add the title I added the text in a text box before changing the colour, I chose blue because when people filled out my questionnaire blue was the most popular colour. To get the title at the back I slid the layer to the bottom of the photo and it automatically moves it to the back.

Using QuarkXPress

This is one of the screen shots I took throughout the making of my contents. In this screenshot I was adding more text but it had to be fitted in between the box above and the photograph below. I did this by changing the text sizes and guiding the text box between the column guides.

With this screenshot this was taken later on in the making of my contents, here I was adding a photo box ready for my photo I was later adding. I did this so I could place the rest of my content around the page and it wouldn’t need to be moved or changed.

Using QuarkXPress

This is what I started of with, this is my first draft. When I was creating this I didn’t feel as if it looked good enough or like a real magazine would look like. In this screenshot I was adding the stand first blue box to go behind the writing. I did this so the stand first would stand out and it would be one of the things the reader first looks. This is done to get them more interested in the article.

This screenshot was taken later on in the making of the double page spread. Here I was stretching and tilting the title over the two pages, I did this to fit the codes and conventions of a normal rock magazine double page spread.

For making my product I also used QuarkXPress to create my contents page and double page spread. I learnt new things on Quark while making my contents page and double page spread. What I think is good about Quark is that while your making a page your product is in grids you can stick to so everything you are doing isn't all over the place and are in line.

I like the way my contents page and double page spread came out. I made them try and look as professional as I could and Quark helped with that with the tools and grids