Final Magazine

Creative Critical Reflection

The End

As I finish my double page spread, I am so relieved. Probably, more than I should be. But I was just dreading this project so much that finishing it seems like such a dream. After my little crisis of having to change all of my pictures, it went pretty smoothly afterwards. The day I was planning to use the pictures but couldn't, I took advantage of the time and worked with what I had. So, I did my layout for my double page spread and set it up on Joomag, so when I had all of the information and pictures ready from Erin, I could just write them in. I decided to take up about a quarter of the first page just for the title and a picture. After that, the beginning of my article will be just a basic introduction about Erin Imhof and who she is, and what she does. That will just be the first page. Then, the second page will include one column that will have the text from my interview with Erin, with the questions and answers displayed. My questions will be italicized to make it easy to follow. I have 5 full fledged responses from Erin, but I will probably cut them down or take out some of the questions because of space. On the left side of the column, I will include some of Erin's photography. This is to give a visual to Erin's as she talks about it in the article. All in all, I'm happy to finally be finishing this project, and now I have to move on to the CCR, and figure out how to do a voice over. 
Photos of my layout: 

-Iggy

Crisis

While working on my double page spread, I was getting the photos that I had taken of Erin's pictures to put on my double page spread. However, being friends with Erin and knowing she's in AP Photo, I noticed that some of the pictures I had were for her concentration, the assignment that AP art students do all year in which they submit a variety of artworks following the same theme. So, I knew I couldn't use those because if they were to be posted online, she could be accused of plagiarism. I texted her about it and turns out all of the pictures I was planning to use were for her portfolio. Meaning, I couldn't use any of them. I had to redo my entire pictures, and at this late in the process I was kind of freaking out. All in all, it's somewhat resolved, she emailed me some other pictures that she had taken so I have to go print those out in order to take pictures of them and then put them in my magazine. It probably wasn't as big of a deal as I thought it was, but this late into the project, any kind of inconvenience can seem like a huge deal. On to finishing!

Table of Contents

Joomag is so much harder to use than expected. It was SO many different settings and tools and options it can get a little overwhelming while working.  Just doing the table of contents was such a hassle. Getting the text box placement just to even have the word "contents" in the right place took more time than should ever be spent on a single text box. Thank god I had Sandra to help me out, I don't know what I would do without her. After about a class period of work, I finally got everything just in the place it needed to be and I'm pretty satisfied. I decided to keep it in the black and white theme, because I really do want my issue to be cohesive with colors and not have random placement willy-nilly. All I have to do now is add pictures to it and it will be all set. I think I'll have to add some pictures behind the roman numerals just like Sandra and Nikki's, but I will make the big page next to it one big black and white picture of pretty much anything. This project is finally moving into it's final stages and I am so excited.

-Iggy

Cover done!

Yesterday I went over to Sandra's house to work on my cover for my magazine. It was such a longer process than I expected it to be. I don't have photoshop or any fancy editing programs, so I resorted to using MS paint. Which wasn't bad, it was actually more resourceful than I expected it to be. I was successfully able to crop out Erin's face and hair out of the picture after many, many tries. It was hard to crop out her hair without making it seem choppy. I had to make it look somewhat natural and actually magazine quality. After I was done with that, I had to move the picture down because since she was wearing a regular t-shirt in the original, I didn't want that to show so her face was moved down for the actual cover. Another thing that came up that I didn't think of was that Erin's hair isn't perfectly symmetrical. As my sketches in my other post show, I planned for it to cut down the middle. However, the cutoff of the hair was more diagonal. This wasn't exactly a huge bump in the road, but I did have to work around it. I just made the cutoff of the color diagonal, and honestly I think it looks better than it would have before. It also let me do something cool with the title, as I made it contrast with the background too. 

This is the final product, I kind of wish that the quality would have come out a little clearer. However I am more than happy anyways with how it came out. I also started working on my table of contents but I need to take the pictures for the rest of it. I'm really happy with how my project is coming along and I'm motivated and excited to finish the rest of it

-Iggy

Pictures! (finally)

This Wednesday I took advantage that I had to stay after school to wait for my friend and decided to head over to the weekly Photo Club meeting to snap some pictures of Erin in the zone for my magazine. Since my double page spread will be all about her, I thought it would be nice to take some candid pictures of her in her natural element. Also, for my cover picture I just asked her to put her hair down and I took a picture of her face, since it was going to be edited anyways the background of the picture didn't matter. I went into the room and took a variety of pictures from different angles so I could later choose the best one. I still need to take my pictures for the table of contents, which will can be pretty much anything, just a filler picture, I need to talk to Sandra and Camila whether it should be cohesive with their magazines. Apart from all of this, the only thing I need is to again stop by the photo room at school and take pictures of physical copies of her photos, as I would love to include her art in the article but all pictures need to be original. Anyways, now I can finally actually start working on my cover, on to editing!

P.S

Great pictures of Erin

-Iggy

Cover Outline

I took a little more time in class to do my cover outline today. I needed to work out what I wanted my magazine to look like. I didn't want to just start and put something together willy-nilly. Because it would have been a mess. I already had a quick drawing of what I wanted my cover to look like, which was Erin, with her black and white hair parted, and then the background would be black and white but in contrast to her hair.

This was my original drawing that I did probably in less then 20 minutes

I spent a class period drawing my cover out in a way more detailed way. I used the drawing tool on the school's iPad's and used a stylus to draw everything out. I would have liked to draw facial features on it but sadly I do not have the artistic talent to do so. Either way, I'm proud of it since I spent so much focused time on it and now I know exactly what I want. 

Nikki was even generous enough to document my concentration of my sketching while using a picture of Erin as reference. For now,

-Iggy