As I wasn't in college last Monday, I spent the day finishing off my corrections and beginning my flat plans for my final products for both the front cover and double page spread. When I came back in on the Tuesday, I began looking for appropriate fonts and colour schemes for my final products. I ended up downloading 'Varsity' and 'Metal Lord' to compare the two together on my mock-up of my magazine on Photoshop. In the end, I chose 'Varsity' as I believe that it went better with the look and feel of the magazine compared to Metal Lord.
Metal Lord
Varsity
My magazine is more Emo as opposed to Metal and therefore I felt that Varsity would make a much better choice when it comes to attracting my target audience.
The only problem I had with downloading the fonts at college was that sometimes, they don't download properly and it's a pain to get them to work within Photoshop. Along with this, half way through the lesson, the power throughout college went off before I had a chance to save my magazine mock-ups. Thankfully, it was no big loss, seeing as I had only been comparing title fonts to one another compared to actually creating my whole magazine.
On Wednesday, I continued with my mock ups. I successfully finished my front cover mock up in full colour and began to think of sell lines, etc. After this, I began looking at better ideas for my double page spread. I looked through various magazines that suited my magazine's style, such as Kerrang!, Rock Sound and Bizarre magazine. I browsed through various double page spread ideas and finally came to one I liked in Bizarre magazine. It was an interview/article about 13 popular questions that footballers get asked. As my article is going to be the top 10 myths about Global Warming, I found that this layout was a perfect guide for my article. As I spent most of this lesson looking through magazines, I only managed to get the general outline of my article sorted. Finally, on the Thursday, I finished off my double page spread mock up in full colour during lesson.
Targets
This week I would love to be able to get my Photoshoot done and out of the way. I have spoken to my models and they have agreed to either come out of lessons or spend lunch time with me in the studio. In order to achieve this, I must go to the atrium ASAP and book the soonest slot they have for a Photoshoot.
Another thing I would like to have finished is a digital version of both my front cover and double page spread layouts completed with colour schemes and fonts. In order to achieve this, I will have to work very hard and quickly - both inside and outside of class. As previously mentioned, as it sometimes can be a pain downloading fonts on the college computer, I will complete the layout at college, bring it home and then change the fonts to the appropriate style at my own computer.
Finally, I would like to be able to get my article finished and ready to be inserted into the magazine. As I have already done the research in order to help me write this article and for it to appeal to my target audience, hopefully, this shouldn't be too hard to achieve.
Contingencies
One of the main things that could go wrong is that there will be no spaces for a Photoshoot this week, meaning that I will not have the appropriate images for my magazine and therefore, it will be harder to design it without them. However, there is nothing I can do about this apart from book the soonest slot they have in order to get my magazine moving as quickly a possible.
After the powercut last week, it's made me realise that it can happen literally at any time. To prevent losing work like I did last time, I have began to regularly save and back up my work, so if the power does go off, at least I have the most recent copy of the file saved.
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