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Post-Production Techniques and Processes (U3: P5)

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In my magazine I used a red and black colour scheme to represent the Grime genre and this is due to my target audience liking the colours red and black so using them on the front cover and within the magazine will be more appealing to them and lead to them buying the magazine more. This will bring more attraction and more attention to the magazine and therefore allowing the magazine to be more successful. In my magazine I used the grime genre. This genre is very popular in the north London which is perfect as it meets the brief better and meets the client requirements for a popular magazine music genre for north London. Also my target audience is very common in north London so the clients brief will be met when looking to supply a popular north London based magazine. The content of my magazine will include several things that my target audience will engage in and enjoy reading. This shows that I would have met the client brief a...

Create Production Materials (U3: P4, M3)

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These are screenshots of setting up the templates in Photoshop: First I opened a new file on photoshop. Then I selected international paper to get the correct sizes. I chose an A4 page as the front cover. I chose and an A3 page as the double page spread. Screenshot of some of my images of my artist. Overall, I had to choose the most appropriate images from the thumbnails. I found that many of the images were not lit in the way I wanted them to be, meaning that some of the definition was lost on the artist's face.  With some of the shots, I found that the glare from the flash was too strong or too weak, or that the angle of the artist's gaze was not properly aligned.  Equally, in some of the images, I cropped the hood by mistake. As I plan on using a tight shot for both the front cover and double page spread, with the artist's head over the masthead, I needed to ensure that the head and hood was shown in its entirety.  ...