Wonderland Magazine!

After we was given the project Four brief I decided to look into Wonderland to get bit more of a feel for it as I haven't looked at it that often before.

From first looking at the magazine I think you can tell it's more of a up market magazine rather then you're usual commercial Vogue just from the images on the front.
They are all quite striking and eye-catching which I don't find as much with Vogue. I knew from just viewing a couple of the previous edition covers I was excited about this magazine. It looks high fashion, high photography, high quality.

Here are a few more examples of Wonderland covers I liked:





I bought a copy of the magazine as you can't really tell from the cover what type of magazine it is and what will feature inside. I was happy to find a huge fashion section which is great as it relates straight to my course and makes me a little more familiar with it all. The features are all great but I don't really need to go into them at this point.

I was looking at the advertising and Topshop doesn't look like it would fit right into Wonderland as it is so I think we will need to adjust Topshop's style alittle and make it more edgy and quirky so it looks more like an advert that would be featured in a Wonderland magazine.

Project Three .. Chosen Photo

I was put into a group of 4 and together we had to discuss each others photographs and choose the best one out of each and explain why we chose this and why we didn't choose the others.

The photo above is the one we decided was the best in our group. The main reasons that the others gave was that it had a good structure to the pose which made it a strong image and lots could be done with it such as advert campaigns. I agree completly with what the others said and I also feel a lot could be done on photoshop with this image and it would be good to play around with.

The other photos were good which we all agreed on but they didn't have that quality that the others had.

Project Four .. Briefing

All this post is is an explanation of my fourth project and what it involves so when I upload all my ideas and work you'll understand what it's for and why it's there.

I have been allocated a group of 4 people to work with and together we have to discuss and decide on a final photo shoot for a company campaign which will be featured in a magazine (not really but lets pretend).

We were given the magazine Wonderland to put our campaign shots into and Topshop as our brand. I think we were quite lucky in a sense as Topshop is a commercial brand and even though we can't go too crazy we can still go a little out there as Topshop is quite quirky.

It will involve some individual and team work but I am very excited about this project as it gives me a chance to show I can contribute to a team and work well with others.

Project Three .. Portraits

For this assignment I was asked to take 20 portarit photographs of people in any way I felt fit. I decided to approach this from a different angle and take some everyday photos and some posed ones. Some of my photos are from a previous time which I thought suited this project perfectly so I used them.
Here are a few of my shots:

















As you can see there are varied shots and like quite alot of them. Afew can be alerted to make better in photoshop which I will later do. If I was to re-do this part of the project I would get some more male shots as I feel it could bring in a new element and I could get some interesting shots from them. I did do one shot of a male but it wasn't one of the best due to the angle it was taken I think. I have tried to upload it onto here to show you but there's a problem in which it cannot load.

Finished Article

Here is my final piece of work for Project One. I wasn't sure what to change after I'd done my first draft but the more I looked at it the more I disliked it so I decided to completly change it.

I found the original one boring but when I did my first draft I made mine boring aswell so I didn't really improve on it very well. I do think it was partly down to me figuring out how to use the programme to start off with but now I think I've got my head around it. I went for colour in this piece as there wasn't a lot in the original and I've toned down the font type from my first draft as I thought it was a little too fussy and hard to read for an article.

I tracked down some more Hollister images as I found the ones that were used in the oringinal were a bit dull. I have although used two of them as I didn't want to make the article unrecognisable.

As soon as I put the logo image onto the page it all started coming together for me. I realised I wanted to match the article to the logo so I used the same colour throughout the text. The front page looks a little open with all the space but I thought it fitted in well with the tone of the nagazine as they do this a lot in the other articles. I added in extra detail with the lines to break-up empty spaces and I think it works well.

Overall I am pleased with my work as I've never done anything like this before so I think for my first attempt it's a good one.

Ted Baker Input

This is my completed brief with all of the relevant Ted Baker information.
It has the campaign objectives and all of the key requirments that they have asked for. If a group from a PR company or Marketing company were to do a job from this brief I feel they would understand it clearly and beable to produce the right image for the brand.
I have now completly finished project two and it didn't take me too long which I am surprised at as my skills arn't that developed at the moment. I feel more confident on InDesign now I have completed this project.

Finished Brief

This is my finshed brief.

I have added on all the questions that I feel are relivant to a brief and some extra ones. I researched into briefs and more or less every one I read had pratically the same questions as mine but were set out in a different manner.

I am pleased with the results as this is the first brief I have ever produced and eventhough it could probably be better I feel I need to broaden my skills before I can do so.

The only problem I had is when I knocked a button and I wasn't sure which and all my writing kept going pink but eventually I somehow got rid of it. This made me realise that I really need to learn this programme better as I wasted a lot of time messing around when I could have been working.