Fmp diary real
- 1. WEEKLY DIARY
- 2. Designer Research This week I have looked in to certain designers such as Rob Janoff etc. I aimed to cover generally who they are and what each artist had achieved. I found this section fairly easy to do I would say that the only issue I had was there was some what limited information actually available. Often only a brief wiki profile and magazine article, sometimes it took abit of digging to find facts.
- 3. Today I have carried on my designer research and have enjoyed researching Virgil Abloh a mens fashion designer. As a fashion designer he is useful to research as he may be included in my magazine. I tried to include various information and images. I also watched a brief youtube documentary explaining who he is.
- 4. Research For my research I have looked in to various magazines such as Proper and Mix Mag. I really liked the styles of these two magazines which made them fairly enjoyable to research I did however run out of time for various sections so I will be adding to my work later on. I thought I did fairly well at annotating but need to put in more detail in the powerpoint.
- 5. Over the last two days I have carried on my research. I have looked in to who my target audience is and who I should aim my magazine towards. I have also researched production techniques, I have watched various YouTube videos. These have mainly been Photoshop tutorials and I have listed the step by step process for each of them.
- 6. Problem Solving Problem solving I struggled a lot with initially as I wasn’t sure what i was supposed to be writing however this changed after I got some help. After it was explained to me again I found this powerpoint extremely easy and simple to do.
- 7. Since my last entry I have done extra work on my problem solving as I now understand it a lot better. I have picked potential problems and explained solutions to them and what can be done to avoid them in the first place. I began with an initial list of problems and solutions and then chose which ones to elaborate on.
- 8. Pre Production and Planning This week I have planned my magazine I have looked at various methods that I can use during production such as looked at fonts, colour sheets and basic layouts. I have then also looked at what equipment, props, models I will need and how much everything would cost. I slightly struggled doing this as my project doesn’t need a lot of props etc so some sections I felt were too small.
- 9. This week I have created a mock up magazine for my planning I think that I have prepared some creative designs and practiced a lot of techniques that I may use in production. Overall I think that this is really well done, I have gained a lot of experience to use. I have also wrote up some potential articles that I may use in my real magazine.
- 11. Weekly Reflection week 1 In my first week of production I have began writing the content for my magazine as I have found this the most difficult in previous projects. I have picked the company's I want to write about in pre production and done some research on them. I already know a lot about the company's or topics I am writing on however so a lot of it is my own knowledge. I think I have struggled to stay focused as I find writing content the most boring area of making the magazine.
- 12. Weekly Reflection Week 2 This week I have began production for my magazine I have created my front page. I have used a simple design for this and kept to a simple colour scheme. I think that using pink in the masthead with the pinks and whites of the image worked very nicely. I have decided against using article titles and subheadings as I think the name and number gives off a very clean image. I have also colour corrected the image to make it brighter and more vibrant. I think I originally struggled with how big the model should be however I decided to go with the full image instead of zoomed in. I feel like the background gives a nice urban look.
- 13. Weekly Reflection Week 3 This week I have been focusing on some article designs. Mainly double page spreads. I have tried to design every page differently aiming to reflect the brand or business through the background and images. I initially found it difficult to think how I could represent these companies but after researching them and looking at their sites I started to get a feel of the brand image. For example Oi Polloi a Manchester based fashion boutique, the theme is simplistic with a lot of clean designs and almost quite hipsterish. I decided that a wooden floor fits in nicely with the decor of the shop and used that as the background. I then placed images of inside the shop along the bottom and a large image of the outside leaving space for the text in between. I may use white boxes to separate the text between the two pages. As I final touch I took the company's logo to head the page but made some slight alterations to make it stand out from the background more.
- 14. Weekly Reflection Week 4 This week I have began working on different adverts to use in my magazine. I have been focusing on simplistic designs to follow my genres theme of powerful backgrounds and branding. For example on this image I combined different features of the companys logo, slogan and magazine and aimed to combine them in to one advertisement. Some of the companys I am advertising have a brand image to maintain a prime example of this would be battenwear the company is all about simplicity so I have tried to keep this in check with my design making small changes for the biggest effect.
- 15. Weekly Reflection Week 5 During this week I have created some more of the magazines articles, I have decided to be a lot bolder in colour and focused on one of the top fashion icons Virgil Abloh. I decided to use an orange and green colour scheme as he often uses on his off white shoes. I have tried to keep in elements of design that he himself uses such as quotation marks and bold titles. I really like the contrast of the orange and green colour scheme and it is the bravest design in the magazine. I struggled to decide on the gradient pattern I wanted to use however I think the overlaying boxes and image gives very nice effect.
- 16. Weekly Reflection week 6 So far I like how my magazine is turning out I have used various techniques in production and have stayed true to basing my designs on each subject and making every one unique. I think that I have struggled in some aspects I am seriously behind on writing the articles for my magazine which I am not convinced I will be able to finish before the deadline. However I have definitely become more adventurous as the project has gone on and I have learnt new skills.