More Picture Editing

Today I have edited some more pictures and decided that I kind of went off the track on musicals and show tunes and focused on the stage to much therefore I have used the microphone as a carrier of a music.Honestly I only did this just to ring home that it's a musical magazine but as I started the develop the image and change the colours, saturations and lighting I began to quite enjoy the picture.We took this picture within our school against a black back drop therefore no removal of the back-ground was needed, in fact I think the black back-ground help make the colours of fire involved more lively and fierce,which are the kind of emotions and passions involved in this genre of 'SHOW TUNES'.When changing the colour I noticed that my arm had sort of been faded out and the shapes have been made a lot sharper meaning that I think the edited image is hard to read, like people that haven't seen the before shot might not no what it is.This image was taken as a live shot as we were just messing around with the microphone and imaged to capture this image within that free moving second within the person nothing I had taken a picture at that exact time.

This image I really like although it's me basically taking a selfie , 'posed shot'.I like it because one it hides my face and also it has a lot of darkness within the photo, which is what I wanted in the portrayal of the character on the front row.All I did for this photo was change the saturations lights and hue and the back-ground was the same as the first one it was black and blended out nicely so there was no need to remove that back-ground.Obvisiously I'm trying to take my front cover down the 'Wicked' musical route and I feel I have achieved that within this photo, however I don't think this image really states that it a musical,'SHOW TUNES' magazine.so maybe if i choose to put this image on my front cover I will have to find a way to make this more musical. I can maybe put both the images I have done today within one, this will show the emotion that I wanted on my front cover with the hint of music needed within my front cover image.

Narrative Double Page Spread

Elena Book

The olden days:

Well it was 1957,musicals were quite the hit then, you know we didn’t have the television box thing people have now-a-days if you wanted entertainment you would walk to the nearest video and go to a show. I remember the first show I ever went to it was ‘West side story’, oh that was wonderful I was around 21, my father took me and my mother there for my birthday. Oh it was a wonderful night and between you and me the person that played Tony weren’t bad looking. That I think was the first time I knew that on the stage was I’m meant to. From that point on every Sunday morning after church I would head to the local community centre and take part in the classes for aspiring actresses, I did that for about 3 years until we did a stage production of our own. We just did the simple snow white from that Disney company I got the part of snow, which at this time was an advantage because I didn’t know there was a scout in the audience. Well I tried my best and watched the man approach Kenny our director after the show, Kenny was over the moon jumping up and down putting all the props on bouncing around the stage and then just as I was about the leave he approached me. I thought to my-self ‘oh know I messed up didn’t I’, he said, ‘there was a scout here he want to see what else you do meet him at the light house theatre next Thursday the name is Jim partelli’. I was just in utter shock I mean it seems like yesterday I was sitting next to my dad in the theatre. So anyway I went along to the light house and got taken to a room just to the left of the reception desk, I remember because the door said stars only that brought a smile to my then young face. Yes so I went inside this room and Jim was sat there on this couch with a cigarette in one hand and whiskey in the other he greeted me and invited me in. he told me to stand in the light so he got a good a lot at my completion he must have been staring at me for 10 minutes that got awkward fast. Jim invited me to sit down and we discussed what journey I had to take to achieve the dream of an actress; however we read a part of a script and that went amazingly well and then he said the word’s that in theory changed my life. Jim said, ‘I would like you to work in my new stage production’. Before he could even say what it was called I agreed and smiled so much that my cheeks were stuck in that position for all of half an hour. We then went on to discuss the path my life was starting to take he said you need an agent and a personal stylist and we have so much to do. Still amazed I just sat there and nodded. Before I knew it I was in rehearsals I managed to get my friend Katie a part in the cast with the Lead cast with ‘ME’, I lost touch with her after we did that show but I heard she went on to do wonderful things so maybe my change of paths didn’t just benefit me.so we did this show and then the offers just started rolling in I went onto to star in Hairspray and Wicked oh that’s one of my favourites. Life had been kind to me I was successful I had my family’s support I had a place in New Jersey it was great. So you know as the years went on and technology advanced Films started to do musical films and funny enough I was actually a part of a Disney musical production called lemonade mouth not too long ago actually that was so much fun like you don’t have to worry about messing up because they can do so much editing is it now-a-days. So my young show days are over now I mean I’m 57 I got 1 kid 3 grandchildren and my loving husband it’s been 38 years now so all in all I have lived a really good life, you know I thought my days in the lime light are over until I got the call to come onto the radio I agreed and did a couple of days per week then that turned into every weekend and now I play show tunes on the radio and it’s like re-living my life it wonderful I love it and am I now ready to set into my old ages.

Writting an Interview with some Artists.

Indiana Menkel-Opera singer

Interviewer:So hi,Indiana nice so meet you,

Indiana: hi,

Interview:So your staring in the musical hairspray now,so hows that going?.

Indiana: Oh yeah, it's going really well you know learning the songs, learning the dance routines and meeting alot of new people along the way,you know not many jobs in the world allow you to do that it's just great i love it.

Interviewer:Oh brilliant,so being on stage how does that make you feel?

Indiana:Proforming of stage still makes me nervous,I still get butterflys before every song or everytime im on stage,I still feel proud when I heat the sound of the crowd cheering after every proformance.When your on stage it's like your you but your not you.Like when I did the stage production 'Wizard of OZ', I was dressed in a witches outfit and wearing layers and layers of green face paint and it's like having an alter ego on stage and I feel that it helps you boost your proformance so much it makes me want to keep persuing my career on the stage.

Interviewer:Wow okay,so being in the various roles that you have played have you had any imput in any of the songs,dances or any of the costume design?

Indiana:well when writting the songs I leave that to the professinals I mean opera is a hard genre to write for let alone sing it I think that one is best left to the professional.the dances oh my gosh I'm such a horrible dancer and im sure lots of the other actors and actresses and dancers get really cross with me.I mean one time we did this kind of swivle thing with our hips and I kind of over spinned and ended up sitting on the chrogographer whoops, so know dancing I also leave to the other professinals again.Now the costumes yes I have had imput on them because I want not just my proformance to mean something but everything I do or of course wear to mean something.

Interviewer:Wow that quite some stories there,okay so we know about your stage life but,what about your film life?

Indiana:well I love stage but yes lately I have found myself edging towards the film industry I mean I did the voice over for the new disney princess and a couple more voice overs for things like 'The Simpsons' or 'Family Guy'.I also did a couple of films were it was just me acting in front of a camera which might I add is very odd they like follow you everywhere, there are everwhere you turn, I think camera's are like gremlins but that just me.

Interviewer: (laughs) so do you think this camera here is a gremlin?

Indiana: yeah look at it all it needs it pointy ears and your there.

Interviewer:Right now if its okay with you weare gonna ask some fire questions and your reply will be a short anwser, Is that okay?

Indiana:Sure yeah let's go.

Interviewer:favourite Food?

Indiana:(Ermmmmm) pizza.

Interviewer: Favourite film?

Indiana: Notebook- hands down.

Interviewer: Role model?

Indiana:Marilyn monroe-iconic

Interviewer: and finally favourite musical and a song from the musical?

Indiana: Hairspray and (Ermmmm) 'Hey muma welcome to the 60's' fewwwww.

Interviewer: WOW thankyou so much for being her today it's a pleasure to meet you.

Indiana:yeah you to.

Interview: see you soon.

Photo Decisions

Location for my pictures:
When choosing a location for my photo's I knew immediately I want to do it inside as my genre does not nor in anyway include nature or the outdoors.My genre is mainly on a stage therefore I knew that I wanted a theatre type of room.Before doing all of this I did a 'health and safety' Risk assessment which you can find in one of my previous blogs.I took the procorsions I needed to assur ethe safety of me,my episuiment and my models.When choosing a location to take my picture I decided to get a camera from within my school and take photos in my the schools theatre.As it is my school you have to be very careful as to who you take picture of therefore no under 16's will feature in my magazine.I also had to be careful as I was taking picture on private property but after asking the appriorate member of staff I was allowed.

My Pictures-Edited

 
Today I have taken some pictures for my magazine and just tried out some simple techniques using pixel photo editing online. I found this very basic editing technique quite eye-catching and effective. I have tried many options of editing and this is the one I found in the time that a did it most successful. All I did was change the hue and saturations to my colour more vibrant and the played around with the brightness to control the back and the shadowing from the body. In my personal opinion I really like all of these pictures. I like the first one because it has no colour, believe it or not I feel the contrast between the blacks and white could have a deep meaning into the artist or character that the artist portrays. Maybe the darker black can show the anger and hurt the character has endured of my it can show the dark power it possesses and light can symbolise the good within her. Now all this is really deep and meaning full however when added with colours the meanings kind of become lost as a lot of colours have a lot of different means like Green is the colour for nature however it can also be the colour for evil. Also regarding this first picture I am worried about it being too plain for my magazine as my genre is 'Show Tune' I feels the cover show be colourful and outgoing now mono.
Now this next picture I like it very much because the back ground has stayed black and white however the model clothes and props have been highlighted with some major colours like the blue and yellow. The hat has then tinted brown which gives it a vintage kind of retro look to it. the shadowing also creates a kind of floating feel or as the shadow has turned black could maybe symbolise the hiding of the darkness within the chacrater.I do like the images of the witch on the flaw as it show emotion and the passion that can be contained within the music.However as i'm writing this on a different day to when I started these photo edits I feel that i am deffinatly not going to use the photo edits with the half green a red women as they have been lost in translation as my magazine has developed in a different way to what I later predicted.

Artists Involved in my Magazine

These are the names of the Artist that are going to be featured within my magazine:

1. Indiana Menkel-Opera singer
2. Billy Mcarthy-Actor + singer
3. Matt Pertwee-Actor + singer
4. Elena book- singer and radio
5. Hillary White-Director
6. Hannah Franco-singer
7. Steve Hawkins-writer
8. Andy Silver- Composer
9. Essemble-Orchestra
10. Golden Melody-Orchestra

Investigate the Convention of Magazine Pages

How many pages should your magazine have?
-Well I have researched it and the normal magazine on the shop shelfs have 100-200 pages depending on the fandom for the magazine,like a top of the pops has 80 and home magazine has 200 so a number between that would be suitable for my magazine as it's so niche i dont really have a guild line to follow.

where all the features ar going to be placed?
-well I was thinking of having an advert attached to the front cover and then ease into the articles a we progress.The first couple of page I can have a letter form the editor and then maybe some reviews on the up-coming shows and the recent shows,after that I can cut to another advert and then maybe a article not the main article but something to intregue the readers that what shows are coming to the west end or not or who the composer is going to be.

How will your contents page be designed?
well I was thinking with on main images and a couple of small ones dotted randomly round the page.Some of the main text will then be in a coloured box however not every text will be because I dont wanna make it ot boxy.
whats your pages size?
Page Size8 3/8” x 10 7/8” is the most economical and common magazine page size. Most press and bindery equipment is designed to produce this size efficiently and with minimum paper waste. Oversize and undersize magazines can be produced but their cost per square inch is almost always higher.
Quote:http://www.knepperpress.com/magazine-printing-services

what types of fonts are common for for bolky texts within a magzine?
-I looked into different fonts most commonly used in magazines and one that kept popping up was 'Garamond'.This font is clean and most commonly used within magazine in the UK.In my research I found that it was voted the second most common font to be used within a magazine after 'Helvetica'.After this research I feel that Garamond might be they way to go because I dont really want to alternate my fonts to much within my magazine therefore I pick Garamond because it's clean easy to read and the date it was released corresponds with the age of my target audience which might have some affectin some way.


Contents Page:

Double Page Spread:

Deconstructing Photographs of Some Artists

Deconstruction of some already artist.Im doing this so I can get an impression of how I would like my photographs to look.

1.This is Idina Menzel more popular for her know role in Disney's Frozen has also stared in the stage production 'Wicked',here is a picture of her within the stage production that i'm going to deconstruct.

First of all let's talk about just Idina.She is within a stage production and in a character therefore she is dress as the character she is portraying which in this case is the wicked witch of the west.she is wearing dark and pale colours however the purple could symbolise alot more.purple is the colour to symbolise royality and expense which could maybe reflect

The life the witch once had before turning wicked. However the colour is merged with the green involved in the entwining patterns with the garment, which could suggest the emotions that she has been through which eventually resulted in the witch becoming evil. The green is to symbolise natural however this is a very dark shade of green suggesting that she has now become unnatural and the characters change throughout has not wise. The fact that only her face is uncovered also gives the impressions the character has self-esteem issues and that she feels that closed inside meaning she doesn't trust anyone around her gives herself to herself. She has think black gloves on her hand meaning that she is trying to conceal herself and is not going to let anyone show her true colours. Her face is pure green as at this point in the play the character Idina is portraying has turned evil, which is why the green skin is there to symbolise the unnatural horror that has become like for example The hulk. As side from that Idina has no more make up on her face. Make-up is commonly used to make people boost their confidence within their appearance therefore make-up is there to make you more pretty in someone theory. Now this witch has no make-up on her face aside from the green face paint, which could infer that the witch isn't beautiful and make-up can make someone standout, now there is no make-up that normal people would wear therefore suggesting she isn't abit of the crowd which could maybe suggest she is lonely. Now the hair traditionally women wear the hair down to make them look more attractive, however the witch Idina is portraying has her black hair symbolising a gothic route to all this has her hair tied back behind her head. Finally on her appearance the all famous witches hat it's plain black therefore mysterious, dark and sinister. Plain is always a thinker for example if you watch the program 'Sherlock’, Sherlock can deduce everything about a person just by what they are doing but when Irene Adler walk in, in the nude Sherlock cannot tell a thing about her because she is plain at that point in the program she was a mystery.

The back-ground surrounding the witch is misty.I have just looked up misty and I came up that if someone has a misty eye they are full of tears so as to blur the vision.So maybe the back-ground can symbloise the witches eyes as the rest of the background is just plain black of witch that I explained in the description of the witches hat plain+dark and sinister.she is standing quite close to the camera suggesting she is trying to get her point across so much.

2.

This

Photograph is lively and out-going and obviously this girl Katharine is having fun.

Let’s start by just looking at the actress herself preforming on stage. First of all her clothes they are light and cheerful. White is a colour that symbolises purity and has a calming feel to it, which is why stereotypically people portray god is pristine white gowns, also white doves is a symbol of love however the symbol itself is to do with the dove the white is to adds more of an explaining to the object it-self.to me it looks like she has cherry's on her top, now this could be taken in two ways one fruity or to a unfortunate sexual route that has appeared in this generation. Someone said that sex is everywhere and believe or not it is and weirdly is used as a selling point of which it does work. She is also thrusting her chest out  and holding her arms out suggesting to me anyway a sort of princess feel to her pose particularly snow white when she’s signing. These little sexual tweaks are maybe put in place so that all eyes are on here regardless, a sneaky way to get there audiences sub-continues attension.Now her hair you can see that it's curled and that is traditionally or more modern thought of as a way to curl in men in the 1950's primarily, she also has the same kind of style that were popular back then. However she is not wearing that much make-up or there is none that I can see in this photograph.to me although she is trying to look that a lady of the night has kind of failure that ambition and is now a house wife. With the crème behind the pattern on the top it just reminds me of End from Hairspray.


The background surrounding this actress katherine is very dark and is a good way to build the tension, however the light beams behind her could maybe represent the passion within her voice meaning that the back-ground now has an up-beat feel towards it and the lights help highlight her proformance.

Different Fonts for my Title

These are my 5 not 3 (whoops) fonts I have chosen to be my possible fonts for my masthead.I need help deciding please.


Overall:All from 1001 free fonts and downloaded then onto my computer for free and one of these is going to be my masthead on my magazine.Fonts are really important within the magazine because everything is chosen for a reason and everything symbolises something therefore fonts shouldn't be excluded from list of importance, some people will pay up to 5,000 poundthat Also I picked the color red because red symbolizes passion which is: if you listen to the songs involved in shows is involved in the artist voices plus,red is a general color involved in shows according to my research as it in theory opens and closes the show with the velvet red curtains.

RayGun & Sniffin' Glue

RayGun

My throughts on this magazine;

In my opinion in really like this magazine it has so many unique qualities involved in just the front cover. For starters the colour scheme, now I would never put them colours together put somehow on here they work on this cover I mean the way are presented in this type of slashed painted way really reveals the creativity involved. Now the title that is still in convention with other magazines that are in mainstream however, the rest of the magazine is so not in convention. The main image is a banana like what the hell does that have to do with music it's so ridiculous it's funny. Also the barcode is just stamped straight in the middle of the main image like that's their main draw to the magazine, I love it.Now they have used sexual references to engage there readers like most magazine does as there is a pair of lips surrounding the banana at the bottom again engaging readers through this weirdly popular way. They have the bit about what the magazines includes at the bottom left hand comer with is all clumped together which is why I think this magazine works and it's very well done according to my standards, I would defiantly buy this magazine in a shop.

Sniffin Glue

Now this magazine is just so basic I also love it.Now this magazine was designed in the 70's therefore computers weren’t really popular or up to the standard it would require to even create a front cover that doesn't look like it's been written. However they wanted a magazine about music around that time so that's what they did it obvious that some hand drew it and wrote it.so they got someone to right the cover and then they scanned it to make the front cover for their hundreds of magazine. Now they down fall that I have is there is no colour fair enough the technology wasn't there but I think they had colouring pencils back in the old days didn’t they. Although I do like there wonky hand writing and the different people hand writing they used really help make the magazine personal which I guess is what they wanted as they are not selling them thousands at a time. You see I can't see a barcode and i know they had them which mean this magazine was only meant for the local people because otherwise you would see some type of manufacture stamp or something or that presents a trademark. They haven’t even been able to draw there division line straight but overall in some sort of weird way I long for this magazine to come to light again as it's just so unique and personal.

3 Names for my Music genre

My music genre is show tune so here is three name that I could possibly use in my music magazine:

Show Tune:I have chosen this name because this is my genre anyway I have decided to count it as one of my names.When I was researching magazines that I could compare to I found it so difficult to even find a magazine that was close to my genre so I throught why not call it actual genre name.

Pop-u-lar: I have chosen this name because it is one of the most popular songs from the musical wicked and the different ranges that peoples voices do when they sing it, put into this context as my titles is quite funny if you think about.

wicked voices: Almost everyone appearing in the shows have spectacular voices therefore why not show that in my magazine. As well as the title does relate to one of the most poplar musicals wicked:the prequel to a Wizard of OZ.

Please comment below for the name of your choosing

Commenting on others work

I have commented on aprils,daniels and kara blog and gave my throughts as to what I think of their work and how they could improve it, if at all.
learned to extened my critical ananlysis and this has helped my to think of ideas that i could prephaps use in my own blogs.

Aprils:April your work is fabulous.your preliminary pages my opion could have already been a school magazine and already being enjoyed by parents.you colour scheme worked really well together however it didn't really match the colours of the school and I can see from the ties of the students in the photos.although I really do love this magazine and if I was a head-teacher id happily sell this at my school.

07/10/2014
I have commented on other work to help them find there fonts and titles therefore this has helped me in my linking between my genre and magazine

kara

charlotte green8 October 2014 06:25

I really like the top one because it's different to alot of magazines titles and fonts already out there.

All of this has helped me with my own work as i have relised some things that will be good to add into my work and also high lighted any bad ideas that i might have had.

charlotte green21 November 2014 01:31

April I think you front page is developing really well as the colours scheme you are going with really reflects the genre of music you are creating this magazine for.

I like that the central image isn't to in your face and is quite casual as this is a very different from a conventional magazine image.At first I throught the color scheme was abit grey which is maybe what you were trying to go for,however now that the purple band is across the bottom, I feel it brings alot of life and color to the magazine and opens so much more opputunity's for more colors.Also I think the fonts are really well sutied and it is clear what the main story will be,Also the fact that there are some faded images behind the Article spoilers on the front page can also help draw another type of audience like people who like the hunger games.
I really love how the 'Wallflower' is developing.
 

charlotte green21 November 2014 01:42

'Break Free' is coming along really well.The colors match really well together and it's starting to look like an actual pop magazine that you would find and pick up in the shops.I like the images and can clearly see what the main story will be as the font is clearly defined from everything else.The fonts are clear and clean and easy to read making it easy to read meaning the font you have chosen can maybe entise people to keep reading.The format and layout is fine and overall it's not confusing at all.

Things that I would maybe have a think about are the really bright pink at the bottom of the front page as it's not apart of the suttle colours you have going in the rest of the magazine and also how that pink doen't appear on any other part of your front cover or contents page.However I really like how 'Break Free' is developing.

Giving this feedback to others has shown me some ways I can maybe improve my own magazine and also has helped steer me away from ideas I maybe had that are not to good looking back on them.

 

 

 

 

Self Evaluation for my Preliminary Pages

Review of my Media preliminary pages:

Well let's start with the front cover now I look back on it I absolutely HATE it. First of all the name what was I think I think I literally took a fairytale path on that one let's scrap that idea for my music magazine.next the feature names surrounding images underlining is a big NO why would I even do that 'TACKY'.Also why on earth is one of my sub-headings for an article in italic is wasn't even aware of that until I discussed my pages with my teacher.Also the images as I look now makes me feel abit uneasy it looks like I was standing by some lockers and taking a picture I wasn't it just looks like I have over edited it.The sell-line at the bottom doesn't even make sense and the mast-head isn't even noticeable therefore I feel I need to correct that immediately as my star student star has just confused the text.Finally the font thats mainly okay however the writing font in the star student looks like it's been done by a child.

However thing that I feel went well was the images I know it was abit confusing I liked the actual photo's itself. Also I feel the actual structure and layout I just need to make some things stand out. I also feel the whole barcodes and the pricing made it look quite conventional and professional so overall I feel I can do a-lot of improvements but not a bad attempt.

Contents Page Review:
overall I feel my content pages went quite well however...
We feel the headshots on the side of the page are not in the rule of three or something I dunno we are getting taught that soon.However I completely understand they they are not inline and it make the bottom girl look abit left out.Also I have sort of miss numbered my pages as I put my first page which is my front page as not the first page according to my content pages it's a interview.Needs to be fixed I know.

However I really do like the image that actual holds the information for what pages are what I feel the image is different it sort of says people aren't that important reading however is.the image itself is so clear that it makes my contents page look a lot more professional than it is. Also I like the fact that it's not that over powered with information all on all I feel this preliminary page is something I should be proud of because it was my first go.