Photo editing research

editing

photo editing includes things like getting rid of 'undesirable features' of somebody ie: getting rid of spots or stray hairs. it's often used on women in the male gaze to make them more appealing, making their legs thinner, removing cellulite making their eyes bigger etc.

photo magazines edit photos to make them more appealing to viewers.

companies use softwear like Photoshop to make the edited photos still look realistic.

this can also mean getting rid of red eye in photos of editing out things in the background, like buildings or signs, or wires on those who have them. 

for example: 

http://www.boredpanda.com/photoshopped-celebrities-before-after/?image_id=photoshopped-celebrities-before-and-after-9.jpg

Photo lighting research.

lighting

Broad lighting is softer than narrow. for example a naked bulb versus one with a cover, while the naked one makes a lot of a room bright the one with a cover will only light up a specific part, just like a spot light.
the connotations a photo brings can be reliant on the position of the light or the temperature of the light (colour).
for example: red, orange, yellow lights would make the photo look warmer, soft  and more comforting while blue, green, purple lights would make the photo look cold, abrasive and sharper

lighting position:

http://www.diyphotography.net/portrait-lighting-cheat-sheet-card/

as seen in the picture the position of the light gives different meanings to the picture. a light which is straight on to the face or not angled away reduced shadows on the face, while angling it up or down could change the model from looking friendly and approachable to looking scary and evil. changing the position of the light from the front to the side of the model creates more shadows on their face, adding atmosphere, the further behind the more dramatic.  

main image research

All of the magazines I've seen, or most of them at least, have a lot of things in common.
For example:

• close ups, focused on their faces.
• a lot have flat on views of the person, with direct mode of address, some have a slight low angle shot of them looking slightly down but not enough to be really noticeable.
• the have quite plain backgrounds, some have gradient colours, while others have simple backgrounds that don't have much going on in them, probably to focus attention on them. 
• the lighting of the photos are usually high key. although a few have natural bright lighting.
• while most are posed looking straight on to the camera, I've seen quite a few with their bodies facing away or with their hands by their face.
• their costumes seem pretty normal, or cultural in some cases, or maybe slightly strange or out of the ordinary but in the way that some one was stuck in the past.
• from the ones i found today a lot of them focused on singular artists, but previously an indie magazine i found focused on groups.
• quite saturated colours or natural colours.
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TreatmentPlan Magazine

Hand drawn layouts

Although they do not have colour, I think I would try to make the background the lightest colour if the person is darker and make the title the darkest colour, and viscersa if the person is lighter. 

Audience research

From my audience research I can gather that most people prefer the masthead "droplet empire" but there is an even split between font preference

And the prefered colony scheme was 

And that the masthead should be in the top middle

Front cover, Contents page and double page spread layout ideas.

names and palletes

Downward automatic harmonic reversal.

Double flux freewill.           Controversial downfall.
Futureless brush drone.        Brick houseguest.
Fierce charade.                     Mindless world.
Droplet empire.                    Diamond bug rot.
Hometown elevation.           Needle edge.
Loyal assault.                       Black chisel.
Clinic artist.                         Identical ivy arrow.

(chosen from a word generator)

(generated with paletton.com randomly)

(ideas for masthead fonts?)

House style

House style is the theme of the magazine or the branding. The thing that makes it recognizable, like for example how the magazine "The fly" tends to have a small yellow label, that looks like it has been stuck on that says "free" or the fact the masthead is always at the top, in the same font, the colour and size changes but the house style is of the font and its position it's the thing that makes it recognizable. this could also mean the same as the magazines own conventions, like how the artists names always seem to be lower down on the magazine, the faces of the artists are never covered. the artists are almost always looking at the camera, when the background is a light colour the masthead is black, if the background is dark the masthead will be white.

Prezi magazine analysis of insides of Clash

Initial ideas and Genres

School magazine improved and contents page

MNE cover analysis

six different points of analysis of this version of NME's cover

Production self assessment

School magazine front cover evaluation

September feedback and pupil comment.

School magazine front cover

school magazine front cover survey

Please click here to complete a survey on my magazine front cover designs, thank you.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FD7GRHY if the link doesn't work

Results:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/eCqLxy5wrulSAwc7lOSSXJbwKskuBFe3MmxgNjII63E_3D

Thinglink analysis of own cover

favourite layouts

I chose two of my favourite layouts from the ones I thought of, and drew them out to test if they would look good. In both images the person would show in front of the masthead and be the main focus.

In this one the school logo is behind the slanted masthead and there are some extra pictures of around the school, the person is also not obstructed by the cove lines. 

In this one the school logo is in full view, the extra pictures are above and below the cover lines but the person is still in front of the masthead. The cover lines only go over what is under the face like neck and chest.

Front cover layouts

6 possible layouts for a school magazine front cover, i found that the mastheads looked best placed at the top. 

PB magazine front cover

From other magazines as well as school magazines, I thought that it would be important to have someone if the front cover. Although mind my drawing is not the highest quality I recognise that it's comon and effective to have close up or medium close up shots as it includes their face and shows their expressions clearly. The masthead I made big and obvious so to draw people's attention as well as including the school logo and initials to give it a sense of where it was from and who it was for. I think with the inclusion of the tag lines and strap line of sorts it gives the impression it is mostly aimed at students while also having some parts for both students and parents. I also decided to put the tag lines in school tie colours although not specifically aimed at the years they correspond to I felt it would give a closer sense of unity. I used rhetorical questions in the tag lines because. I know they would draw attention and curiosity to the magazine especially for those that are interested in the titles. I put the person in front of the logo, as you can still see the logo, I felt it was important to show that students come first in plants brook in a sense as if the student was the most important thing on the front cover an d the main focus.

Photos lesson 2

Created with flickr slideshow.

This lesson we focused more on getting portrait style photos, or at least with people in them, mostly what i learn from this lesson was you have to be careful with lighting, it reminded me that lower light levels will need a longer exposure time and a steadier hand as movement is going to distort the images, alot hought this works well trying to get sots with movement in

Photos lesson 1

Created with flickr slideshow.

we took photos around the building trying to get some examples of different shot types, some were harder to get than others, and we didn't know how to use all of the school cameras functions to best get results, although some of the photos i think are good examples of their shot types.

Masthead designs

 1.) If i were to recreate these more professionally i would want to use a font that look very hand written, so it would look as if students had made it. PB would be in bold and maybe a more professional font to stand out from the rest. i decided to use black and red because they are the school colours which we associate with the school to make it feel as if the magazine would be more anchored to it. the tag line i went with a saying that i always hear, people are always saying and i agree that school feels like it's going really quickly, and i thought it would be appropriate.

2.) I would use fonts that have a more professional look, for "plants brook" i would want to use a font that is curvy and flowing, while "magazine" and the tag line would be in blocky fonts to show a solid structure, the tag line i decided to use was as reference to through out secondary school we are always told we will need to take more responsibility for ourselves.

3.) I think the inclusion of the school logo would be a good feature because it gives a sense of belonging, the title "school informative" i thought would be a good idea as it give an overall feeling, as in it's for the entire school not just students, or parents. i used a rhetorical question for the tag line as i thought it would make people more interested while also saying what the magazine would tell you.

School magazine mastheads

The first masthead has what i assume to be the initials of the school before the magazine title, saying where the magazine is from, the font is informal and almost like handwriting. the second masthead makes it out as if the magazine is aimed more for the parents of the students, and what they can do, the font is more formal looking and simple, the last has bright colours on it but a font that looks half way between formal and informal, suggesting that it is aimed at and for maybe both parents and children to enjoy,