DIVERSE 07/10/09

In today’s lesson we continued to create our magazines. When we opened our work we thought that something looked wrong. We then thought that maybe it was because In today’s lesson we continued to create our magazines. When we opened our work we thought that something looked wrong. We then thought that maybe it was because we hadn’t added any text such as, straplines, cover lines, main cover lines and so on.

When we added in the text we found it difficult picking a colour that didn’t clash with the background. Our background image was a multi-coloured graffiti wall. Seeing as the wall already had writing on it, we felt it was too much of a headache to try and use a bold font over it. So we went onto Google to search for another graffitied wall, but then we ended up giving up on the idea of using an urban graffiti theme all together.

We were back to square to one. Now all we had was an image that we had previously edited the colour of the red top to grey scale. We felt the pressure when we saw how much the other group’s magazines had progressed. We were unaware of long we had left to complete this project so all we tried to speed things up. I and my partner failed to find an image that suited our magazine so we decided to create our own background.

The first thing we did after selecting a black background was pick the gradient tool; we picked rainbows colours and narrowed the colours down to pink, grey and red. We picked the circle option and drew a large circle in the background. We then enlarged the scale so the circle was too big for the page; this is because we wanted the semi circle look. Then we skewed the rainbow so the top left half was thin and the bottom right half was bigger. This was to make it look like the rainbow was approaching from afar. Finally we changed the opacity to 60%.

Now that we had a main image and background we could add a Masthead, we all agreed to name our magazine Diverse. We picked a font called Crush (I think) and thought it would be a good idea to make it white so that it stands off the black background. The Masthead was positioned behind the main image and stretched so it fills up the top of the page.

This was all we managed to get done the whole lesson. On the positive side, we now knew what we were doing for next lesson so hopefully we would be done for the deadline.hadn’t added any text such as, straplines, cover lines, main cover lines and so on.

When getting round to adding we the text we found it difficult picking a colour that didn’t clash with the background. Our background image was a multi-coloured graffiti wall. Seeing as the wall already had writing on it, we felt it was too much of a headache to try and use a bold font over it. So we went onto Google to search for another graffitied wall, but then we ended up giving up on the idea of using an urban graffiti theme all together.

We were back to square to one. Now all we had was an image that we had previously edited the colour of the red top to grey scale. We felt the pressure when we saw how much the other group’s magazines had progressed. We were unaware of long we had left to complete this project so all we tried to speed things up. I and my partner failed to find an image that suited our magazine so we decided to create our own background.

The first thing we did after selecting a black background was pick the gradient tool; we picked rainbows colours and narrowed the colours down to pink, grey and red. We picked the circle option and drew a large circle in the background. We then enlarged the scale so the circle was too big for the page; this is because we wanted the semi circle look. Then we skewed the rainbow so the top left half was thin and the bottom right half was bigger. This was to make it look like the rainbow was approaching from afar. Finally we changed the opacity to 60%.

Now that we had a main image and background we could add a Masthead, we all agreed to name our magazine Diverse. We picked a font called Crush (I think) and thought it would be a good idea
to make it white so that it stands off the black background. The Masthead was positioned behind the main image and stretched so it fills up the top of the page.

This was all we managed to get done the whole lesson. On the positive side, we now knew what we were doing for next lesson so hopefully we would be done for the deadline.