Evaluation – New Media Technologies.
Just realised I didn’t actually finish talking in my last technologies post, so here’s the follow on. The software I used for my magazine cover and poster was Adobe Photoshop. I regularly use this software for media and have used it before when doing my music magazine cover last year for my foundation portfolio. In AS Level I was discovering the wonders of Photoshop and getting to grips with the basics but this year for the poster and magazine cover, I was learning the potential of the programme and felt that I did a lot better in using the effects within the programme to create a better product.
This time round I was very familiar with the use of layers and building up a product from the bottom so could walk right into it Photoshop with the idea in my head and execute it, hopefully to a high standard. One thing I explored more this time round was the effects drop down menu. For my music magazine last year, I tended to stick to what I was taught and not really venture away into the foreign toolbars, but this year I tried to do that. For example, for my poster, I began with the full colour picture of my main actor. However, I decided to alter the colour of the picture to match the colour scheme of my font and background. For this I altered the hue, saturation and lightness of the picture. By adjusting these slightly, I came out with what you can see on my final poster design on a post I made on March 31st 2010 named ‘The Hunter Film Poster’.
Another effect I tried specifically with my magazine cover was adding noise to the font. I wanted make it more rugged and less reformed and clean so I tried different effects and by adding noise seemed to create the best look. It was hard to get the balance right because too much created a grainy effect on the writing which I didn’t want.
