Guy Rutter Unit 3 Evaluation
My strengths in making my magazine work, I enjoy a challenge because I like trying out thing I haven’t used before and I am good with digital media for example when I was putting pictures in photoshop I knew what to do. I am good at the organization of group members because I told Travis what we need for the magazine like page design and I have good ability to take orders because I listen to Travis when he suggested a page layout. I am honest , responsible, self-confident and polite to people and I took good photos for a car genre magazine and designing my own layout eventually. I am good at managing my time.Examples of this include making sure the spreads are work complete on time.The weaknesses are I am not ability to diffuse tension in-group. I found it difficult getting some good creative ideas and also at organizing the resources together. One way of creating ideas that I found helpful was looking a broad range of other peoples work for example magazines.
I started researching the layout of car magazine double page spreads on the Internet and looking what images they used and the angle they used and the style of shots they used. I also looked at what fonts they used and make sure they were well present . I started planning a layout of my magazine of a double spread of a car on a A4 paper. This helped me because I knew then how many images I needed and what of. I made sure mum’s car was clean and shiny and made sure there wasn’t any rubbish in the car for example crisp wrappers.I made sure the lighting was as good as possible to make the photos more
professional.I started designing my magazine on Photoshop and first I put the photos in place and then got the font I needed on dafont and got the information on Internet and out of a magazine and type about the car and get the colour was suited for a dark background.
The techniques I used are stroke over writing I used this because it stand out and make my magazine look professional and another techniques I put the lines up the top and bottom to make my magazine look professional and another techniques to it my magazine more depth I added a background image to make my magazine more professional.I used columns for my text because It easy to read and convention of form which means all magazine are set out this way.
The legal and ethical issues are that by using my own images and text copyright is not an issue where as if I was to use images off the internet then I would had to seek the permission of the owner and probably have to pay them as well. The other problem I would've had if I had used professional images, my own images would have taken a long time to match the professional ones.This then would have affected the amount of time I had to do the production.
