Myles' Blog

For this preliminary task what we were set to do was to create a magazine advert page. I stuck with my first idea which was to create a product that was suitable for the magazine I will be doing, which is teenage men’s fitness. I began by researching the codes and conventions of a magazine advert page. I chose a Dior Savage advert page as I like the way the advert is presented. I also carried out an analysis of an existing magazine advert page, which was an advert from a Men’s Health magazine. After those tasks I began to take a closer look at the product I was advertising and the company that creates the product. I found this useful as it gave me valuable nutritional information that I displayed on my advert. I then started to draw out my initial ideas of what the advert may look like. This helped me gain a brief idea of what should be on my advert and how I wanted to present it. I then took knowledge from my previous sketch up and did a new, more detailed sketch up which I called my ...

Joe is your average 15 year old male that shows an interest in fitness and has a strive to improve mentality. He has been going to the gym regularly and enjoys doing it. However, he doesn’t know correct technique and is anxious he many injure himself but is too scared to ask others in the gym. He is always watching what others do and wants to be able to join but lacks confidence. He tries to imitate but again, is scared he will injure himself. Joe also struggles to gain weight. He has always been skinny and aims to gain weight as he feels insecure around is classmates when changing for PE and this inspired him to start going to the gym. Joe has researched online on how to gain weight in the past but has been unsuccessful. This often disheartens Joe as he is beginning to believe that putting on weight is ‘impossible’. He finds information online unclear and mixed advice makes him feel uneasy. He is worried that if he keeps getting disheartened, he may fall out of love with the gym. Onl...

In this task I took the chance to take some photos and test my editing skills using my phone. In the photo of the paintings I took the photo where there was sunlight shining over some of the photos. I edited this image by making the image brighter and adding more colour effect to the paintings. For the photo of the wall of poppies, I used the panoramic option on my phone to fit the whole wall into shot and give it a cool looking effect. I then edited the photo by increasing the brilliance and highlights of the poppies to create a bloody look and give the more power. I then increased the amount of shadowing which made the scaffolding around the poppies look black and almost surreal. On the final photo I cropped the photo down to focus more on the people talking in the background to add an idea of everyday life. I then increased the warmth of the photo whilst also increasing the shadowing and brightness to give the lighting a cool effect. I enjoyed doing this task as it allowed me t...

In this blog I researched the psychology of colour. I found that this topic links other topics such as analysise of magazines and audience demographics so it is useful to understand. What I found interesting about this topic is the 'colour emotion guide'as it simplifies down the use and meaning of colour in magazine and it makes the easier to know what colours to choose when designing a magazine cover of your own.