Feedback On Magazine

After creating our magazine, we thought we should ask some people within our school before finalising the magazine, in order to get good feedback and make changes to maximise our marks to gain a better grade for our group. firstly, we asked our media teacher, he thought it was good however we should change the background colour to white as if it was the original (black), we couldn't see the bubble outline of the pictures in the corner. With this feedback, our group had a discussion and decided to change the background to white and to use contrasting colours of red and black throughout. Secondly, we showed it to a selection of our peers, who are our target audience. They suggested that it needed more variety with the images, that they were too dark and that they needed to create more of a clear feeling about the film.With this feedback, we then sought to add images of the different time periods and shots of day and night to increase the variety. They also suggested that they would have liked to see the information more clearly, so we separated the basic info for the film in a box, so as to make this more visually accessible.

Final Magazine Review

Poster & Magazine Diary

During this process, we took screen grabs of the process while making our poster and magazine. Petrit created the poster whilst Ali created a magazine review. We took our time in doing this as it was one of the main things we wanted to make outstanding from the other groups in Media A2.

Magazine Construction

Here are some screen captures from our magazine review. We decided that we wanted to have a review that captured the urban feel of our film and our poster, so we experimented with the background on Photoshop. We wanted to create a spray-painted, graffiti-like effect, and after working with the different paint brushes, we could find the desired effect. What we wanted to do was to frame the images with the spray-paint effect, so tried working with the images and editing the layer above. We placed 3 images on the document, one large one in the top right, one smaller in the bottom left and one smaller still in the bottom right. We then experimented with erasing some of the white layer above the images and found that by varying the size of the eraser tool we could achieve the desired effect. I think that it works well in creating a non-conventional, urban feel to the review and is in keeping with both the film and the poster in terms of atmosphere created.