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How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Tuesday 5 April 2011
Evaluation Question 2
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How effective is the combination of you main product and ancillary texts?
How effective is the combination of you main product and ancillary texts?
Evaluation Question 1
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This presentation is best viewed full screen on slideshare as the font is quite small if viewed as it is.
This presentation is best viewed full screen on slideshare as the font is quite small if viewed as it is.
Monday 4 April 2011
Final Magazine Cover
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This is the final draft of our poster:
We are really pleased with our final result and we feel that it looks very similar to a professional magazine.
This is the final draft of our poster:
We are really pleased with our final result and we feel that it looks very similar to a professional magazine.
Monday 28 March 2011
Magazine Front Cover: Final Draft
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The next step towards completing our magazine cover was to add further taglines. Because we are creating a 'Horror Season Special' we decided it was appropriate to include a 'Top 50 Horror Movies of all time' tagline, implying that the issue will cover horror from both past and present. We also copied the date, UK price and US price and the positioning that is uniform in each Empire magazine that we researched:
Another tagline we added was 'What will get your blood curdling this year?' followed by a series of thumbnail shots of upcoming films. We added a couple of still shots from actual upcoming films for authenticity but added a few images we had taken when filming earlier in the year, for example the tractor in the woods we were filming in and an abandoned wood saw:
Looking again at the 'Kick-Ass' edition we wanted a similar 'layout' for our main tagline, with the title of our film being a part of a sentence:
We came up with our own version of this, using 'you' to directly address the audience. The sentence in itself can also act as a device to interest the reader and make them want to see the film - because the magazine itself is giving the film a strongly positive review, then the audience will be much more interested than if it received a neutral review.
We maintained a red, white and black theme throughout as not only do these colours work together to symbolise horror but they are also easy to read against the dark background of the image.
We also kept to a minimal number of fonts for simplicity, using basic, easy to read fonts such as Arial Black and Century Gothic.
After adding everything we needed to to our magazine cover we then experimented with layout again, changing the size, colour and positioning of text to improve our cover and make it appear authentic.
The next step towards completing our magazine cover was to add further taglines. Because we are creating a 'Horror Season Special' we decided it was appropriate to include a 'Top 50 Horror Movies of all time' tagline, implying that the issue will cover horror from both past and present. We also copied the date, UK price and US price and the positioning that is uniform in each Empire magazine that we researched:
Another tagline we added was 'What will get your blood curdling this year?' followed by a series of thumbnail shots of upcoming films. We added a couple of still shots from actual upcoming films for authenticity but added a few images we had taken when filming earlier in the year, for example the tractor in the woods we were filming in and an abandoned wood saw:
Looking again at the 'Kick-Ass' edition we wanted a similar 'layout' for our main tagline, with the title of our film being a part of a sentence:
We came up with our own version of this, using 'you' to directly address the audience. The sentence in itself can also act as a device to interest the reader and make them want to see the film - because the magazine itself is giving the film a strongly positive review, then the audience will be much more interested than if it received a neutral review.
We maintained a red, white and black theme throughout as not only do these colours work together to symbolise horror but they are also easy to read against the dark background of the image.
We also kept to a minimal number of fonts for simplicity, using basic, easy to read fonts such as Arial Black and Century Gothic.
After adding everything we needed to to our magazine cover we then experimented with layout again, changing the size, colour and positioning of text to improve our cover and make it appear authentic.
Monday 21 March 2011
Magazine Front Cover: 2nd Draft
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Our plan today is to complete our magazine front cover. Now that we've looked at our first draft (from last week's lesson) with fresh eyes, we've decided that we need to make some changes.
We began by using a combination of Photoshop and inDesign to cut around the character to place on top of the masthead via a new layer. We also approached it from another angle, using the magnetic lasso tool on Photoshop to cut away part of the text. We went on to print a couple of variations at different stages of the process to see if the effect was authentic.
The next step was to alter the main tagline. We changed the angle and darkened the colour slightly, in a similar fashion to the Kick-Ass edition we looked at previously. We kept the outline to black so it stood out against the dark background and began to add in extra information such as the date and price.
We then experimented with various fonts to convey horror, as we decided to create a 'Horror Season Special' issue. We downloaded a variety of typical horror fonts from dafont.com. After using each font for the 'Horror Season Special' tagline we went with 'Double Feature', a clique horror font that takes the harshness away from the rest of the cover. It also immediately conveys the theme of horror as it is a stereotypical horror font.
Taking inspiration again from the Kick-Ass issue we then created a 'splatter' shape out of a standard circle and a number of full stops and commas written in the horror fonts we had downloaded. This acted as a visual text box which also linked strongly to our horror theme.
At the end of the lesson, this was our development:
Our plan today is to complete our magazine front cover. Now that we've looked at our first draft (from last week's lesson) with fresh eyes, we've decided that we need to make some changes.
We began by using a combination of Photoshop and inDesign to cut around the character to place on top of the masthead via a new layer. We also approached it from another angle, using the magnetic lasso tool on Photoshop to cut away part of the text. We went on to print a couple of variations at different stages of the process to see if the effect was authentic.
The next step was to alter the main tagline. We changed the angle and darkened the colour slightly, in a similar fashion to the Kick-Ass edition we looked at previously. We kept the outline to black so it stood out against the dark background and began to add in extra information such as the date and price.
We then experimented with various fonts to convey horror, as we decided to create a 'Horror Season Special' issue. We downloaded a variety of typical horror fonts from dafont.com. After using each font for the 'Horror Season Special' tagline we went with 'Double Feature', a clique horror font that takes the harshness away from the rest of the cover. It also immediately conveys the theme of horror as it is a stereotypical horror font.
Taking inspiration again from the Kick-Ass issue we then created a 'splatter' shape out of a standard circle and a number of full stops and commas written in the horror fonts we had downloaded. This acted as a visual text box which also linked strongly to our horror theme.
At the end of the lesson, this was our development:
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