Production Monitoring Blog, 28th March 2011

Day by day last week I achieved a lot of things, I changed a lot of things on my front cover because I felt it wasnt quite good enough for the standard I wanted. Here is a screen shot of my front cover. I changed my cover dramatically last week by changing the Font from BA WET PAINT to WORLDVIEW font from daftfonts.com. I also added banners in for my writing to go over to create the ideal magazine. Everything ran smoothly apart from the fact that I couldnt decide what to write on the front cover because everything I chose didn't really fit in however I then got the right text that fit my magazine. Once again I used a lot of my of my photoshop skills such as downloading fonts into photoshop to use for my text and Main headline.
This week I need to complete my double page spread and front cover. I will try and finish my front cover today and on tuesday and then I will have the rest of the week to complete my double page spread. I may not have enough time to finish all of it so I will have to stay back at college most nights to finish it.

Production Monitoring Blog 21st of March

Last week I acheived quite alot with my production.Throughtout each day I was working on my front cover and deciding plans for my double page spread. Thing's didn't really run as smoothly as I thought they would because my skills weren't as up to date as I needed them to be. There was also some problems with the editing of my front cover because the layers on photoshop was adding effects that I didn't need so I had to alter theses, which took a lot of time and put me behind with my product but i quickly caught up during the week. I have learnt how to put different font's into photoshop from daftfont's.com, here is a screen shot of me doing this.

For this I  had to copy and paste the font into the C drive then alocate it to the Fonts section in widows.












I also learnt how to add different shapes such as rectangle boxes to make the section for my mass head. This week I need to complete my front cover altogether so I can start on my double page spread and spend a few weeks doing that and completeing it . I will need to use all my skills on photoshop to do this to my best standards. I may face some problems doing this because I still need to take the photo's for the double page spread for next week. I could have some problems when im doing this because my camera may not work so I will haveto have a backup camera so I can continue with my product on time.

Production Monitoring Blog 14th March 2011

Last week I achieved a lot within my production. On the Monday I did my photo shoot for 45 minutes, 9:00-9:45. In this time I photographed the images for my front cover and my double page spread articles. Here is a shot of two of the photos that I took, which are also the photo’s that I will be using for my front cover and one of my articles. On the second day I uploaded my images and decided which ones I would use for what. I decided this by looking at the exposure, lightening, expressions and other characteristics of the photos. 
On Wednesday I then began to design my front cover by looking at my flat plan of my front cover which had my main idea’s on and then taking it further to eventually placing my main image in the middle of the page and then editing this to make it look right. The next day, Thursday I added more smaller images onto the page that would relate to the subheadings of my double page spread.  Everything went to plan in my schedule and especially in my photo shoot because I got every picture that I needed and I achieved this in the time that I had without any problems.
However it took me a lot longer to edit my photos than I expected because my photo shop skills have degraded in time because of the lack of use with it. This slowed down my schedule quite a lot. I also had some problems with my model that I used in the photo shoot because she was not wearing the correct costume that I needed her to wear on her bottom part of her body. I then had to only photograph the top half of her and zoomed in on her with the camera which then changed my plan of what I needed.
I have also learnt more skills on Photoshop and how to upload different fonts on to it from websites. I have also learnt how to place images onto other images using Photoshop. In my photo shoot, I learned how to use the backdrop properly and background lights within the studio. This week I need to complete all of my front cover and edit it all to the right standards that I need. On the Monday I will make sure all the photos are edited correctly and I will also finish my front cover and make sure everything is placed where it should be. 
On Tuesday I will start my double page spread starting my first article. I will pick all the images that I will use in the articles. On Wednesday I will start writing the first article and on Thursday I will start writing the second article. To do this I will use my schedule for next week. I will use m Photoshop skills within this.

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