Magazine Preliminary Evaluation
The first preliminary task that I completed was of a magazine front cover and a contents page. Both of the pages should have included the main conventions that professional magazines follow and the preliminary requirements were that you should only use three colours (excluding the main subject image).
The magazine front cover and contents page that I designed and constructed on Photoshop Elements was fairly easy because I knew a fair amount of knowledge regarding using the software and therefore did not really have to learn many new skills in order to make them. One of the new skills that I did learn throughout this preliminary task was how to soften the edges of the main image that I used in order for it to look not as sharp against the white background.
Furthermore, I learnt in more detail on how to use the Magic Wand tool in order to change the colour of the Masthead to the Lutterworth College colour scheme; this made the magazine cover more appropriate to the targeted audience of the college magazine.
I would improve my magazine cover by maybe changing the background colour so that it stands out more to the audience and then I would therefore have made the cover lines a different colour and change the font so that it would also stand out more.
I would improve my magazine contents page by changing the text font and colour (the same as the front cover so that the text font flows through the magazine).
Overall, I was happy with the magazine cover that I produced because I think that I followed the conventions that magazines have (see my Evaluation of the Magazine Pages on a Previous Post).
The magazine front cover and contents page that I designed and constructed on Photoshop Elements was fairly easy because I knew a fair amount of knowledge regarding using the software and therefore did not really have to learn many new skills in order to make them. One of the new skills that I did learn throughout this preliminary task was how to soften the edges of the main image that I used in order for it to look not as sharp against the white background.
Furthermore, I learnt in more detail on how to use the Magic Wand tool in order to change the colour of the Masthead to the Lutterworth College colour scheme; this made the magazine cover more appropriate to the targeted audience of the college magazine.
I would improve my magazine cover by maybe changing the background colour so that it stands out more to the audience and then I would therefore have made the cover lines a different colour and change the font so that it would also stand out more.
I would improve my magazine contents page by changing the text font and colour (the same as the front cover so that the text font flows through the magazine).
Overall, I was happy with the magazine cover that I produced because I think that I followed the conventions that magazines have (see my Evaluation of the Magazine Pages on a Previous Post).
Film Preliminary Evaluation
The second preliminary task that I completed was to plan and shoot a short film of a persona opening the door and speaking to a second character with a couple of lines of dialogue. Although it was only half a minute long after editing, it took an hour to shoot and over an hour to edit and process; showing the great amount of time that film institutions put into their films in order to get the narrative as thorough as possible.
The technical skills that I have learnt is defiantly how to use ‘IMovie’ because I have never used that piece of editing software before and have been used to using ‘Windows Movie Maker’ for previous projects. These skills were cutting footage on ‘IMovie’ and making sure that it flowed using the preview tool.
The most important part of producing this short film was the planning; as I have realised that the planning stage will effect completely on the overall film. I think that if we were able to film a couple more different camera angles during the shooting stage then we could have varied the cinematography and also we could have added music into the film to give it more atmospheric drama.
The technical skills that I have learnt is defiantly how to use ‘IMovie’ because I have never used that piece of editing software before and have been used to using ‘Windows Movie Maker’ for previous projects. These skills were cutting footage on ‘IMovie’ and making sure that it flowed using the preview tool.
The most important part of producing this short film was the planning; as I have realised that the planning stage will effect completely on the overall film. I think that if we were able to film a couple more different camera angles during the shooting stage then we could have varied the cinematography and also we could have added music into the film to give it more atmospheric drama.
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