Isobel Ward Media Studies

Noodle Video Recipe Dad’s noodle recipe: Ingredients:           Olive oil                                        Spring onions           Ginger          Coriander           Chili          Soy sauce           Chinese 5 spice          Honey          Chicken          Noodles Prep time:   45 mins – 1 hour Serves: 4 – 6 people Method: 1.       First you need to prep all your vegetables. Finely dice a whole bag of chilies and peeled ginger. Open up your coriander bag and pick off a good handful of leaves and put them to the side (as you’ll be using them for gar...

 Pocket: Pocket is a useful social bookmarking service for storing and sharing web bookmarks which you can revisit at any time. It allows any user to save an article or webpage for you to read, even offline. It also allows the user to add tags to articles and for an easier read adjust text settings. If the user doesn't want to read the article, Pocket allows the user to listen to any article which they can do on the go for ease of convenience. Furthermore this app Is available over multiple platforms like android and IOS. I found pocket incredibly simple and easy to use. I can easily add any websites and articles that I wish to read later and even better I can favourite or highlight key things from said article. Looking deeper into the website, not only can I revisit articles at any given moment I can discover collections of articles from ‘todays essential reads’ and other wide varieties of topics so I can use it like any other news app with an added extra of being able to save ar...

Here are my prototypes for my website pages. The web address is  https://wardisobel3.wixsite.com/mysite - Unseen images and stories will be displayed on my website to offer more than developed stories. - Navigation bar with other link pages to different styles of articles - Comment section, share button to formulate audience opinions similar to 'free press' - Media cross convergence through the usage of brand colour scheme being seen online and on my contents. - Developed categories to have a wide range of topics for all audiences - Different range of portrayed images via different camera angles and shot to create developed meanings- all will be unseen with each new edition - Large amount of audience interactivity from sending in real life stories- all topics and genres - Audience featured photographs each week as a form of competition. - Audio and visual content like 'funny' clips to be submitted from my target audience making it appealing to the prosumer. - In a photo...

 

This would of linked the political aspect of my current affairs magazine. If I could of gotten out I would of taken a picture outside of a hospital or a wall in a busy town where there has been relevant NHS graffiti which I could of used in my magazine. These two images would of linked in to closed businesses or an original photograph of people shopping. I also would of gone out to a restaurant and take a similar set up with natural lighting to match one of my articles in the magazine. If I had the time I would of arranged a friend of family member to recreate a similar image so it would give representation in my magazine for sexuality.  

This is the photo I was going to experiment with layer masks. I chose a second photo that i would like to layer on top of the main image. I made sure my first photo wasn't sitting on my background, so I added another layer to edit with, Using the quick selection tool, I highlighted the blue face mask, I refined my selection by adding and subtracting if I didn't get the selection accurate first time. After the mask was accurately selected. I added a layer mask. I brought in the second image and placed it over my original. I inverted the layer mask by pressing Ctrl I and therefore the 2nd photo shows up behind the original. In the future id used this to replace a background for a model on a magazine- or to create a text wrap around the image. Personally the outcome of this layer mask doesn't work so well but I know how to use this effectively in the future. Id also continue editing this picture to be eventually used for my Issue 1.  

  This is the unedited photo. I then centred my image by cropping the edges and resizing it. By pressing Ctrl L, I altered the light levels to add more contrast. I then added some saturation to enhance the blue mask colour. I blurred the background so all the focus would be on the model in the mask. I then added saturation to the mask with the sponge tool. This is the final edited photo.

This is the original photo taken. I cropped and resized the image to my own liking using the crop tool I utilised the light level tools and added more depth and contrast. I then added the appropriate amount of sharpness to finish the overall look. I then added more colour saturation and hue to enhance the photos colours.    This is the final edited photo.  

  This is the original unedited photo. I began to crop and resize the photo to what I thought looked best. By pressing Ctrl + L, I altered the light levels to add contrast and lower brightness. I then went in with a sponge tool and added depth to the whiter parts of the cats fur so you can see more detail as its whitewashed.   I lastly altered the sharpness of the image. This is the final edited photo, the subtle changes has enhanced the photo even more.

  Happening contents page and front page 1st draft:   Currently contents page and front page 1st draft:  Out of the 2 drafts I prefer the Currently layout and also I’ve decided that will be my finally title name. 

Brand Identity: 3 font styles-    For the Title font Currently  For the headers in the magazine Currently   For the small text inside Imagery- - The imagery used on my magazine and website will be simple, recognisable and match the appropriate articles. Logo- This is the logo I've designed which I'll use on all the newspapers for Currently. I will also have it used on my website to create synergy. Graphics- - My overall theme is to make it look arts and crafty so my boxes will look like post it notes and the content and detail inside would be designed like a note page. This similarly fits in with my logo. This matches with my target audience of 16-25 as most of them would be studying or potentially just starting off their career and the idea of note pads fit their theme- plus it keeps it more interesting. All shapes will fit this.   Colour Scheme: - I will experiment around with this colour scheme of reds and golds and blacks. The post it notes could have g...