Question 6 – What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Camera; good and bad points, model, lighting, how the camera differs from the Nikon, what I have learnt.
During the process of making my magazine, I had to learn some new things so my images would be suitable for the style that I wanted use them for. The first thing I learnt was how to use the camera to its full use. The camera was a Cannon EOS 600D. I had consumes about using this camera at the beginning as I had no precious experience during a cannon for my precious task I had used to Nikon. After taking the first dozen images I found that I wasn’t as daunting as I first images, of course I did not know how to use all of its factors at first but I quickly got used to it and found it very easy and not as different from the Nikon, although some buttons where different and the way the images were taken would have a different style to them, this interested me and it became an enjoy task using the camera.
My location was off set; underneath a train station, next a river and homes. I wanted to use this location because it made the images look more realistic; where Indie people would want to hang out with mates. Although it was clear that I wanted to make my magazine look as professional as possible I wanted to make my audience feel as though they could relate to the models in the images. The most images were used on contents ages where I had three models, separate and together, I still used some convention such as direct mode of address but I wanted it to look as if the models had a real relationship between each other. The images were taken during the night so I was also worried about the lighting. Unlike others I did not have a soft box as I was not in a studio, so the thought of making this images look a good as possible was with me through out. Luckily for me, the cannon camera has a selection of factors which allowed me to capture good quality, suitable images for the magazine. I used the lighting on the camera; this was bright enough for the location to be seen to its full potential.
The good points for my camera was the quality it gave it, how easy it was to get to grips with camera, the size was very easy to transport about as we did try a lot other places outside before choosing our final location. However the process of learning how to use the camera wasn’t easy, I first I had trouble with focusing the camera’s lens and removing the blurry effort, as these pictures were taken outside it was quiet cold so trying to steady the camera was also a practical problem which I faced. But through the whole process I have now gained a full standard understanding how to use the camera to create good quality images.
Photo shop; good and bad points, what I found difficult, what I learnt, would I use it again, cropping.
Another technology which I used through out this process of making a magazine was photo shop. Through my first task; taking photos for a student magazine I had learnt how to use it and gained a very basic knowledge on how to use this program productively. I would use Photo shop put my magazine together. Once I got the final image which I was happy with and was suitable for its purpose, I would go to Photo shop, change anything which I felt would effect the image in a positive way and also add any text to the magazine – for example on my front cover, I changed the contract slightly and added in some codes of conventions such as cover lines, and a masthead although I did develop the masthead but kept a lot of conventions the same. I used Adobe Photo shop CS3 Extended to do this process. At the beginning I had asked my teacher for some help on how to use the program, I worried that my basic understanding would mean the magazine would have be of a bad quality, failing to keep to the plan of a professional look for the magazine. After being explained some ideas I found that it was much easier that I had first thought and that it wasn’t going to be as daunting as I first expected. Through Photo shop I have also gained a bigger, more developed understanding for Photo shop and its different factors which all work to make one piece of work for example – cropping and resizing are factual aspects needed to be considered for making a magazine using Photo shop and were used throughout while making my pages; front cover, double page spread and contents page. Through out my magazine I tried to keep a professional image about, I used the same styling as kerrang for my contents page, I found it wasn’t too b7usy but still filling the page with a lot of information and images, of course I did change the work, I found that it shadowed the work making It very easy for me to finish my work to a standard, I also used some of my teachers’ advise. Using Photo shop I did have two choices for my contents page; one was covered in images, the second was clearer placed, with a selection of images down the side, giving information on page numbers etc, with the advise and guidance given I was able to chose a more suitable one.
There are a lot of different points, and aspects of Photo shop which were important through out my process of constructing my magazine, for example I found adding and resizing images to the page, changing some of the contract and brightness to the images to be simple, straight forward and easy to get the idea of which allowed me to use this through the magazine; front cover, contents page and double page spread, using these also allowed me to keep to some of the conventions which were keys such as a typical image on each of them, and keeping it to a suitable size allowing the reader to understand. I also found using the text was simple and straight forward, downloading the different fronts from dafront.com was easy as it was linked through out the computers system, also allowing me to keep to the conventions of cover lines and masthead on the front cover, and a suitable size text for the contents page and article on the double page spread.
How ever the bad points towards Photo shop which I faced on a regular bases were the layers, I was not used to using so many layers on product at a time, the bases of the layers seemed very simple at the start when they were first exampled to me by my teacher but as constructing the project went on and I became more familiar with other aspects, layers became very confusing, I had to get used to the fact that everything had its own layer and that if I wanted to link something together it was take more work than predicted as couldn’t just merge things at the start.
Most tools could be found on the side bar on the left, they were shown in an icon for example;
CROP :
TEXT was show was a T:
However to see the layers, it would be on the right hand side:
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