CONTENTS PAGE part2

To make the Polaroid photographs that I had used on the contents page and on the double page spread, firstly I imported the photo I wanted to use into Photoshop. Then I superimposed an image of a Polaroid card over the photo and magic wand tooled the black parts out. Then I used free transform and placed the Polaroid image to fit directly onto the photo. Then I used the bucket tool and chose a off white/ yellow colour to make the Polaroid look vintage, and coloured in the Polaroid. Then I imported the text from dafont.com and superimposed it onto the Polaroid to look handwritten and magic wand tooled away the white from the background. Then I used blending options to create a shadow (using drop shadow and by messing around with the levels to get a perfect shadow.)

CONTENTS PAGE part1

For the contents page I wanted a background with lines on so I used a photograph I had taken in the school canteen of a railed background. I copied the photo into Photoshop, free transformed it, and then rotated it 180 degrees. Then I scaled it up so that the subject was not in the frame, and I cut him out of the picture.

FRONT COVER continued

I chose the selling line because it would be a joke that only true fans of blues and soul would understand. This is because blues/soul/jazz music is all syncopated and out of sync, which is what is special about this sort of music. Then I chose "but never out of style!" because it would be clever and quite funny.

I chose the cover line to say "Kelsey Wright gets naked" because it is controversial, however in reality its about her new song "Naked" which is then said in the double page spread. There is also a photo of her in a bathtub in the double page spread, and whilst she is not naked in the photo, there are connotations of nakedness.

I did some drawings using the brush tool because on the contents page and on the double page spread, there are lots of handwritten looking typefaces especially on the Polaroid pictures, so I thought the drawings would look effective on the front cover, almost as if the editing staff were very "creative" and laid back and it would just look arty and casual.

I created the bar code on Photoshop, by dragging a lot of horizontal straight lines onto a rectangle shape and then typing in random letters and numbers on the keyboard, then rotating the text 90 degrees and placing the text perpendicular to the lines. I then merged all the layers when I was happy with the bar code and superimposed it onto my front cover.

FRONT COVER 2

The other photograph i wanted to use for the front cover was this one:

I used the crop tool to make the image more of the subject’s face. This is because the original photo was too centered and therefore it would have been hard for me to fit coverlines in. The reason I cropped it like that is so that I still had the darkened side of her photo where the natural sunlight didn’t reach, which I think was effective because it looks mysterious and kind of “epic” as a famous artist on the front cover of a music magazine.

Then I used the patch tool to get rid of any imperfections (spots, etc) which wouldn’t be seen on a professional front cover photograph. I did not edit out the subjects natural freckles because it would take away from her natural beauty.

Then I used the burn tool around the eyes (on about 30 px) and then used a really large brush size to darken her face from the unlit side, to add to the shadow already present. I did not use burn tool on her cheek bones because I really like the paleness of her skin which looks almost angelic (because in our culture white signifies purity and cleanliness.)

Because I couldn’t choose which one I liked better I asked my class which they preferred and about 70% said they had preferred the first one, because of the makeup and also because it was a medium close up and looked more realistic as a front cover.

FRONT COVER 1

I had two main choices for the possible front covers.

THE FIRST

Firstly I edited the brightness/contrast as shown to heighten the contrast and lower the brightness, to make the photo look richer in colour.

Then I used the burn tool from the tool selection, which is used to darken areas. I used this on the subject’s eyes and also on the cheek bones to make the subject appear as if she is wearing more makeup than she is in reality. This is to make her look more like a celebrity, which will later be anchored by the mast head which is lit up which also conveys the idea of stardom.

I then made the brush larger to 70 px and used the burn tool on the subjects hair. I had used too much exposure on my camera when taking these photographs, and hadn't noticed until it was too late for another photoshoot; so I had to use Photoshop to fix this problem. Burn tool returned her natural colour and even made it look richer.

A problem I had with this photo however was that I had to move it to the side so I could fit some cover lines in, however I didn’t have enough image on the right of the subject to do this.  What I did was use another photo of just the subject’s arm, and superimposed it over the current one. Then I used the clone tool to even things out and smooth things over.

Photoshoot 2

Photoshoot 2
List of images required 2 or 3 different photos
Location: My house
Date: Wednesday, 25th March, 2009
Timing: 4.00 pm - 6.00pmSubjects: Kelsey Wright
Equipment: camera, tripod, lightingMise-en-scene (props/costume): makeup and attire from home, and red guitar
Lighting: mainly natural lighting with elements of warm coloured artificial lighting
Problems/solutions:/
Evaluation: The lighting was all natural and therefore all the photos turned out fairly good.

Front Cover Photo Shoot

COVER
Photoshoot 1
List of images required
2 or 3 different photos
Location: Performing Arts Block
Date: Wednesday, 25th March, 2009
Timing: 1.00 pm -3.30pm

Subjects: Kelsey Wright, Jonathan Sanders, Lauren Burchell, Aidan Cavander
Equipment: camera, lighting, tripod, red backdrop, instrumentsMise-en-scene (props/costume): makeup and attire from home

Lighting: mainly natural lightingProblems/solutions: red backdrop didn't look as vivid as I had hoped it would, but this could be fixed with a image manipulation program such as Adobe Photoshop. A pr

oblem also occured when I tried to take a photograph of Jonathan and Kelsey as if they were performing, however when I tried to capture them in the same shot, the image turned out blurry. What I did to solve this is I took two photographs of the two of them seperately and an image of the background seperately, and then afterwards I will Photoshop them all together to look as if it was one image.

Evaluation: This photoshoot went well with not many problems. The shot taken was not a difficult 

one and the natural lighting radiated off the subject's skin which the c

amera picked up and as a result the image looks nice and profession

al looking.