a) What were you trying to express and how did you achieve this?

What i was trying to express was my passion for life…i showed this by taking a picture of my eye because that is what makes you visualize..and in my self portrait i am visualizeing a colorful and positive future..to make it look dreamy and looking in to the future sort of thing..i made the focus point on the pupil of my eye and the rest of my eye is sort of getting blurred to the sides.

b) What Filters did you use and where?

I used the vanishing point filter ( the same one you had shown us with the girl playing beah volleyball and the vanishing point in the pic was the ball and the girls face).

c) What layer blending mode did you use and where?

I used the saturation and hue for the whole picture and then i used multipy and clor burn for the color in my eye and to blend the colours together and make them look smoothly blended i used the blur tool to blend them and then i used the luminosity tool to make that flash shine still apear on the top of my pupil and under my lashes. I also used the blur tool too make the sides od my eyes stretch to make the pupil the vanishing point.

 

a) What does your logo represent?

It represents me and my name

b) How did you design your logo to represent this?

My logo represents the first letter of my name “B”…and the lines that come out from the bottom and top are to sort of represent a shooting start with the star on top…kind of like to show that “lifes goes on”

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2) This is the original piture I used to make my magazine cover.

3) a. What qualities of your magazine cover make it effective? (eg. What makes it eye catching?, What about it promotes curiosity?, How is it visually pleasing?, What makes it easy to understand?)

I think what makes my magazine cover effective is the bold and bright colours i used against the white background and this to me seems very eye catching which i also believe makes it visually pleasing. The picture of Aishwaryia Rai really sticks out and it promotes curiosity because it makes you wonder why she’s on the cover?..who is she?..which leads you to also read the headlines. The text on the cover is pretty straight forward and very easy to understand and also easy to see…because it’s all written on a white background which makes the text pop out and to make the text easier to see, i also put a drop shadow around it.

     b)What was the order of hierarchy you were trying to achieve for the elements on your  magazine cover?

My order of hierarchy:

1) Aishwaryia Rai

2)URBAN GIRL

3)101 HOT SUMMER LOOKS (Secondary story)

4)Summer Shopping (Third story)

5)HOROSCOPES (additional )

6)Aishwariya Rai – Bringin bollywood to hollywood (main story)

The reason why i want the viewers attention to go through all the other stories before the main one is because while the viewer is looking for the reason why Aishwariya’s on the cover, he or she will see all the other stories that are in the magazine which will allow them to read through other things besides Aishwaryia’s story. =]!!