FEEDBACK

I asked for some feedback on how my magazine can be improved. Above is olivia who gave some very valuable feedback however due to the fact that time was against me, I was unable to improve my magazine according to the suggestions given above in the video.

I used a plus sign to introduce other pieces of information. I had to find a pefect shape and had to go throgh many options and narrowed it down to one i liked.



















I found one I liked so I took it to my magazine and tried to position it in the perfect way but first there was a slight problem.

The Plus sign was not the colour I was looking for and This was vital as it needed to match my feature colour.

I Used a tool called Magic wand to highlight my Plus sign and and then i chose a colour to match my magazine and clicked select. Then A shortcut i've learnt recently was CTRL+ backspace which changes the colour of the Plus sign.









Below is how my Plus sign looks currently and I made it look like my feature colour so it stands out and does what I placed it there for.

I have chosen this picture of my model after a very hard thought decision and feel the change was for the better.

This is the picture I used as my model. This was used as it looks very atrractive to my audience especially male audiences. The pose looks very model-like and the fact that the hair is across half her face shows she may have two sides to her personality. I made the model wear a green jacket to match my feature colour and normal black clothes to show simplicity but also to give connotations of power and professionalism. I feel this is key if I want to give out a meaning through my choices I make with the clothing and colour scheme used. The lighting has been improved with my background being played with using various tools such as the stamp pattern tool to make it more smoother and also the brightness leveling tool to make my model look more brighter and more eye-catching.

How I made up the Model's name. The Font which says NINA took a lot of time to decide and many decisions were made on how to make it look but i chose a simple font that looked very appealing with a background of green and i decided where to place it.

My Barcode.

I had a huge choices on what bar-codes i was going to use. I wanted to keep it the same as what normal magazines have which was a smaller bar-code. I chose this to keep conventions the same. Most of the magazines i have looked at all had very small bar code and it was placed

 mostly in a corner and sometimes tilted. I came 

up with the one above as i felt it 

it matched with other magazines and was

nice and small.

This is what camera shot I used.

As seen above, I have chosen the top right picture shot to go with my magazine. The top right is a Mid- long shot which I purposefully l used to allow the model to be seen from a bit of distance which allows her clothes to be seen and also her facial expression with her hair out in front of her face. This makes her appear more attractive to audiences espcecially male audiences. I used the angle of gaze to make it look like my model is looking at the audience which makes it look like she is looking at the audience which makes them want to buy it. 

This is my comparison between my final magazine front cover and my my flat plan.

Overall, there have been many changes throughout this process. Many things such as the colour of my font to match the green jacket worn by the model to make my feature colour stand out. I have taken out some graphics and kept one main circle graphic and made it the feature colour as well. The main feature stories have been moved to the right side to make space on the left for the graphic.
The name of the model is on her knee and it is in a very striking font to make it catchy for the reader and want to know more about the model who already looks very attractive which engages the audience more, specifically male audiences. The bar code has been moved from left to right and made smaller to match magazine conventions. The magazine is intended at youngsters and teenagers and the choices I have made I feel make it appropriate to call this a magazine a Hip-Hop magazine.