Project Monitoring week beginning 20th Jan

This week on the whole has gone to plan however I have had to complete several other tasks as I have made several changes to different aspects of my magazine.

In my first lesson I planned to concentrate on refreshing my knowledge of lighting techniques. When doing this I decided on the lighting technique I would use for my front cover image. I needed help with this as the lighting of the image I am basing my shot around is quite alternative and I wasnt sure how to achieve this. This week I spent time thinking about all of my imagery ideas and decided that I would change the imagery concept for my front cover. This was mainly doe to the fact that I thought that my original idea would not work out. Below is the image I am now basing my front cover around. I have chosen this image as I think it will create a really strong brand for my magazine. I will get my model to pose in a similar way so that she looks care free happy. The whole aim of my magazine is to encourage young women to be independent and not care too much about how they look-it attempts to break the conventions of womens lifestyle magazines.
For the rest of the week I focused on finishing my articles. I completed my City Guide and Young Farming article and made adjustments to my dare to blog article. By the end of the week I had placed my City Guide article into the layout mentioned in my previous blog post and I think it works better than the one I originally planned to use. All that is left to do on this is some artwork for the background at the top of the page. To do this I will use photoshop to create a cartoon-style skyline of York which will include the minister.