In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - Article

In what ways does you media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - double page spread

In what way does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - Front cover

Text change on front cover

I have decided to change the size of my font on my front cover. The text saying 'Layla' was very big and made it seem as if she was the model on the front cover. To fix this I made the text smaller and added the models name into the review section but made it bigger than the other text with a drop shadow to make it more noticeable.

Photo change on contents page

After looking over my contents page I decided that I wanted to change the photo on my contents page because it does not fit the theme of my magazine. I decided to use a different model who had a more similar look to what I was going for.

Original image

New image

Colour change on my model

After taking my photos and loading them on to the computer I noticed that my model had some small imperfections on her skin such as a red nose and lighter patches of skin on her forehead where her makeup had rubbed off. To fix this I created a new layer and then used the colour tool and picked up the colour of her skin around the imperfection, I then coloured over the imperfection trying to follow the natural curves of her face. This will make the colour look better but will not blend very well into her natural skin, so I changed the opacity on the layer that I coloured in until I was satisfied with it. I then took the blur and smudge tools and gently dragged the original skin and the colour placed on top until it looked natural. I done this technique on her nose and also the high points of her face where her skin looked patchy.

Drop shadow

I had a reoccurring problem when doing my text on my magazine. Due to different colours on my magazine, the text that I put on was not always visible. To fix this problem I added a drop shadow on my text, the white drop shadow that I added on my front cover created a slight glow around it which allowed the black text to be seen against her hair. I also added a drop shadow on my introduction on my double page spread, because the text was a light grey it was hard to see against the white background. A slight red drop shadow on the text made it much easier to be seen and added an extra detail that brought in more colours from my house theme.