Candidate Name: Sorcha McVeigh
Candidate Number: 8270
Centre Number: 71615
Preliminary Task: Using DTP and an image manipulation program to produce the front page of a school magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in Medium Close-Up plus some appropriately laid out text and masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.
Main Task:The Cover Page, Contents Page and Double Page Spread of a new music magazine.

Monday, 13 April 2015

Question 7-Evaluation

Here is my seventh question of my evaluation.
Question 7. - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires





Question 6-Evaluation

Here is my sixth question of my evaluation.


The frist picure is of the Blogger logo which i have used throughout this course to desplay my courework on. I was able to devlop my skills of blogger as i found it confusing to begain as time went on i began to get used to the software.
The next two photos is of the Adobe Photoshop logo and the Adobe InDesign logo which i used to edit my photos on throughout the construction stage of this course. I had some basic skills in photoshop before i done the prelimary task but now my knowledge of the software has expanded and helpped me to create a realistic looking media product.
Slideshare helped me post my work that i had done onto my blog easily. The final image is of Google Chrome which i used to help save my work on google Drive which is a online storage for work.


Question 5-Evaluation

Here is my fifth question of my evaluation

Question 4-Evaluation

Here is my fourth question of my evaluation.

Question 3-Evaluation

Here is my third question of my evaluation.

Question 2-Evaluation

Here is my second question of my evaluation.

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Final Double Page Spread

Here is my final double page spread for my music magazine.





Final Double Page Spread Construction

Here are the changes i made to my double page spread and how i done them.


Changed text of main cover line Bernard MT Condensed. Changed the colour of the blurb to white with black outline. Add some of the content of the interview on to the first page.  Took away the red box around the pull quote and made the commas red.


Added the date, page number, magazine number and magazine website to the bottom of the page.


I took away the background of the pull quotes and made the comas red and changed the font to Minion Pro. I added a caption under the photograph.
 

I changed the colour of the question font to red so they stand out on the page.


I changed the colour of the font on the first page to red with a black outline.


Here I added on twitter questions and I used Lucida Sans to change the font from the main article. I made the question font a different colour so they are easy to red and I added a colour to the box to add more colour on to the page.


I added 2015 tour dates to the page so that you are up to date with her latest gigs.

Final Contents Page

Here is my final content page for my music magazine. 



Final Content Page Construction

Here is the construction  for my content page for my music magazine.



Here i  moved the editorial and the features so i could put the photos in a line  and so it looks more like a real music magazine. I also changed the font of the text on the page to look more realistic.


I made the photo of Rose Grace smaller so i could put more photos on to that side of the page. I moved the Scooter Braun logo on to the first page and made the photo of Shea McCartney smaller.


Here i added the TomorrowLand logo on to the page and a photo of Tennents vital last year which is to do with the festival review section of the magazine. I added a inside revive sticker to the page to make the page stand out.


Here i added social media icons to the page and and a photo of Marron 5 which is to do with the poster section of the magazine.


Here i added a small caption beside the photos to say what they where about and which article or feature they where related to.


Here i added the page numbers to the photos so that the contents page was easy to navigate around.


Final Front Cover

Here is my final front of my music magazine.


Final Cover Construction

Here is the final changes i have made to my front cover of my music magazine.



Changed the text of the slogan live life loud to Arial rounded mt bold and put a black outline on the writing.


I moved the pull quotes and the coverlines all to one separate sides of the cover of the magazine. And removed the colour of the background of the coverlines.


Changed main coverline font to Bernard MT Condensed.


Moved the social media icons and made the qr code smaller.


Put captions under coverlines to tell you what its about and put black outline around the coverlines so they will stand out

Friday, 13 February 2015

1st Draft Of My Double Page Spread

Here is my 1st draft of my double page spread, i have followed through with my house style throughout my work which is red, black and grey. I have posted this to get feedback from my peers who are in my class. 


 

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Construction of My 1st Draft Of My DPS

Here is the step by step construction of my double page spread which i made on inDesign.


Here i added a gradient background and added my main image of my feature artist Rose Grace.


Here i added bar at the top of the page that states the name of the magazine "Revive" i added these to all of the pages of the double page spread. I also added the cover line and a small blurb about the article. I added a pull quote to the first page of the double page spread.


Here i added the content of my interview with Rose Grace and i  added drop caps to the article.


Here i added a photo of my main artist Rose Grace and i also added two pull quotes from the article.


Here I  add the rest of my interview onto the fourth page of my double page spread.


Here i added a pull quote to the page and i also added a photo of my main artist.

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Editing My DPS Photos

Here is the step by step of how i edited the photos i used for my DPS.


Here I took away her blemishes by using the spot healing tool I also took away red eye buy using the red eye tool.

Here I cropped the photo to get rid of the shadow of the camera and to get rid of some of the blank space.

Here I edited the background and made it transparent and I edited her hair so it doesn’t look as messy.


Used the healing brush to remove any baby hairs on her forehead and I used the stop healing brush to remove spots or blemishes


Here i added a grey background onto the photo of my main artist in my magazine.


Here i removed the background surrounding the artist.


Here i removed any blemishes that the feature artist had.  

2nd Draft Construction of My Contents Page

Here is the step by step of how i developed my 2nd draft of my contents page with the help of my peer feedback.

Here i changed the one page contents page into a double page contents page, i done this so i was able to get more information on the pages. I made the main artist who is featured on the dps the biggest pictures as she is who is featured on the dps. i made the regualrs, features and editoral into colloum as they are easier to navigate like that. i placed the masthead on the contents page to remind them that it is revive magazine.


Here is added social media icons to allow the readers to follows us to keep up to date on the latest issues of the magazine. I made the page numbers that are on the photos bigger so its easy to navigate around. I placed more photos of what is to be featured in the magazine so that you can see what kind of features and regulars are in the magazine.


Here i place the background which i used for the front cover on the contents page to stay with the house style and to take away some of the white space. i also changed the puff to make it the house colours of the magazine.

Peer Feedback on My 1st Draft of My Contents Page

Here is my peer feedback from my peers in my class. I did this to find out what they like and what i can change on my contents page to make it better or easier to navigate.


2nd Draft Of My Content Page

Here is my second draft of my content page which i made on inDesign. I have made changes to the page such as making it a double page content page which allows you to have more space to present your regulars, features and editorial on.

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Editing My Content Page Images

This show the step by step production of editing my image of the artists for my contents page.


I duplicated the layer so i could edit the photo.


I used the clone tool to fix her hair to make it more smooth round the edges.


I used the spot heal tool to remove any blemishes on my artists face and I used the healing brush to remove any strand hairs that are on her face. I also used the red I tool to take away any red eye

Duplicate layer magic wand tool and rubber to delete background.