Diary Entry: 28th November

Today in our media lesson we looked at the printed version of the inside album cover, we realised that we did not like the position of the images and there was not enough in the collage. So instead we changed it so that there was only one image on both sides and a mixture in the middle. We also changed the colours of the two large images (right and left) to a sharper white and black effect. This was done by making both images black and white and the brightness to 81% and contrast to 88%. Doing this meant a washed out but bold image is presented instead of having two images of different colours.  

Once doing this we then edited the main center image by re-arranging the image position to make it more appealing. In one of the corners of three images the corner points did not fit well so we decided to write a signature to add to the personal touch. As we already added text in a marker pen we chose to used this font and size to write her name. We found difficulty to do it free hand do we decided to type it and rotate it to a slant to make it look more realistic.

When trying to drawn the signature we got Grace herself to do it as we wanted it to be her actual signature and we found it difficult to do it ourselves. Once realising none of us could do this we chose to type it in this font to make it consistent and look better. We also showed Grace our production so far, she was very impressed and said it looked effective and professional. Moreover we showed her our four ideas of the magazine cover and asked her which her favourite was, she agreed with us and liked the first one as it look effective and like a magazine cover. Sir was also asked this question and he agreed with this design he said the others looked frigid and the setting was not as effective. Me and Lauren therefore chose the first design as our firm but felt we may need to edit the colour of the image to make it stand our and look more bold.

Author: Kiran Paul