Evaluation Video

Final Cut

Signature Added to Double Page Spread

As mentioned in a recent post, a member of my focus group advised me to add a personal touch to the double page spread, so using the new font I had acquired, I today placed the new signature in the bottom right of the page, replacing the 'Tickets for Ozzie's new album are on sale now' finishing line.

Weekly Review (Timekeeping)

This week was the final full week before the Final Cut, so I spent it making lots of minor changes and improvements to the magazine, including changing font sizes on the cover, altering the transparancy of the social media logo background, adding superimposed frames onto the double page spread to allay concerns of 'emptiness'. I also adjusted the brightness and saturation levels of my double page spread model on photoshop, and also discovered a new font for a planned signature on the double page spread.

This week, I intend to put the final touch on my magazine by creating the signature on Monday for the double page spread. I will then hand in my final cut on Tuesday, before I begin work on my evaluation. For my evaluation, I am doing a video which answers the 7 key questions. I intend to include audience feedback from my focus group (which was established back in February) in order to test the product on it's intended target audience. I will film these interviews on Thursday, and my own segments on Friday. I plan to use some greenscreen in my evaluation video to make it slightly more interesting. Then, at the weekend, I plan edit them at home using Pinnacle Studio 20, in time to upload to my blog and hand in on the deadline of Tuesday 2nd May 2017.

New Font Used

When I consulted with Luke from my focus group on my double page spread, he suggested that the article needed a "personal touch" in order to "make it feel like the interview is with him, not about him'. Therefore, I decided to include a signature from Ozzie O, the artist, at the bottom of the page. However, to create this I needed a calligraphy-style phont, so using Dafont I found this font, Amontilladios to use for this signature.

Photo Editing

When I consulted with Megan from my focus group on the current state of my double page spread, she said "The model is too pale, it makes him stand out from the page and not in a good way, he needs more colour" In order to address this criticism and make my male model on the double-page spread appear less pale, I altered the hue, saturation and lightness levels in order to put more colour and life into the model, and I am much more satisfied with the updated result.

Slight Alterations to Double Page Spread

After consulting my focus group, I was informed that some of the page still appeared to be somewhat 'empty', lacking something small but imperitive to the design of the page. In response to this, I added a horizontal line near the top of the page that breaks up for the headline and Ozzie's overlapping head in order to make the page appear more full and less boring and overly conventional, as I still want my magazine to have it's own identity and have a creative flair as well as following conventions.