Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Monday, 5 May 2014
Context Of Practice - Publication
For my Context of practice I decided to make my essay into a publication after not having enough time to do what I originally had planned.
I started off by doing a few rough layout ideas and ideas for the cover from looking at the research I had done.
I wanted to make the layout reflect the content, so I tried to make it like a magazine, which had adverts in it. I had done a few layouts which I then decided to stick with.
With it being like a magazine, I decided that I needed some form of imagery to go along side the essay as well as the images I had referenced within the essay. This was when I decided to collaborate for some photographs which had been taken by a student on the photography course. I thought the style of photography works well with the content as I think it gets the message across but it is not too obvious or 'in your face'.
These were some of the photos which the photography student had taken, but I did not use them all.
Along side the photos I also did some glitch based photo editing of existing adverts which would relate directly to what I have said in my essay. I feel that using these images will emphasise how it is meant to a magazine but at the same time due to the way that I have edited them will be the opposite of what you would see in a magazine.
these were the original images I had collected, which also have the source to where I found them.
I did all of the editing within Photoshop for most of the images, but for some of them I simply printed them off and re- scanned them, but whilst they were being scanned moved them about to achieve a glitch effect.
these were some of the glitches which I had done, straight from the scanner
Most of them came out pretty well and turned out how I wanted, as the whole concept behind creating the glitch images is because of how they would not have the same effect on people and some people would even be offended by some of the images, which would not be intentionally but would just go to show how used to seeing adverts we are.
I then went on to edit some of them in photoshop.
Layering up the scanned glitches looked better as for some of them it made it harder to read and make out what it was for, this was the effect I was trying to go for.
I also did some glitch effects using the filters on photoshop, which turned out pretty well, it was more a matter of trial and error with these though.
The final images
I was fairly happy with how the glitches came out as I feel that for their purpose they are suitable.
I also put them into context using mock ups of adverts on billboards and in public places.
This was the finished publication, I also included the rationale paragraph as the introduction to my publication.
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