For this week, I had assembling photographic and illustrative material together to create rough drafts for each page, second draft layout work and create shapes, backgrounds, and other necessary page items which are not photos.
I finally got my photo shoot for the Wednesday lesson of this week, which was great as I really did need to get it done. On the lead up to my photo shoot, I thought that I would actually just go and create the layouts for my front cover and second double page spread. I got back onto Photoshop, and started arranging my sell lines, magazine name and everything else around where I wanted my photo. I took a photo of a model from the internet who would have been in a similar pose to my model and placed her on the front so I had at least a vague idea of what I wanted it to look like, instead of just blinding working away and possibly getting the text far too big or far too small.
I also created the layout for my second double page spread. As it only has one main, large picture on the top of the band, I went and took another photo off Google and pasted in it so I just had an idea of what it was going to look like. The layout itself was very easy to create and took barely any time at all. By the time that my photo shoot had come around on Wednesday, I had both of the layouts completely finished and all I simply had to do was paste the photos into where I decided I wanted them to do.
The photo shoot itself went great. I did have to use my backup model as my original model pulled out at last minute. However, I am not bothered about this as my backup model did a great job and I am pretty sure that she did a better job than my original model would have done in the first place. I took all of the photos for my front cover, seeing as I was doing my photo shoot for my double page spread in the holidays. I took a total of around 30 pictures, and the contact sheet will be on my blog. I got her to do various poses, making everything different so that I had a lot of variety to choose from in case I didn't like my initial ideas. As I said, everything went very well and I was glad to have finally done it.
I only had one lesson left for this week on Thursday before we broke up for the half term. I put my photos straight onto my front cover and it looked great, I was genuinely really happy with how it had turned out. My model fit on the front cover perfectly and the size was right and everything. The only thing I tweaked about the front cover was that I took a colour sample from my model's shirt and used it as the sell lines, making my whole magazine just look generally a lot more tied together.
I am very happy with the progress I have made this week and to see I am so close to finishing. All I have to do now is to finish my blue folder and then get my interview and photos done for my second double page spread, which I have arranged with Curtis for within the half term.
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