FRONT COVER: Feedback

In this Prezi, I present three young people from my target audience and their opinions also asking them on what I could improve on.

           

FRONT COVER: Key Front Cover Features Linked With Research

FRONT COVER: Masthead and Font Decisions

Here I feature the first ideas I have on my masthead's & artist's name font as well as the final decisions and why I chose the official fonts.

        

Masthead and Font Decisions from Ali Teri

FRONT COVER: Final Shot Manipulation

Whilst researching and from my own knowledge, I know that most female Kpop groups & artists are represented much more girly with features such as makeup consisting of girly colours, longer hair and clothing such as skirts and dresses with thigh-high socks as well as MV styles and concepts. This inspired me to have my model wear a pink shirt as pink is usually 

represented with femininity. To create my feature colour, I matched the pink shirt with a pink eyeshadow look and a cat eyeliner; Korean makeup is often very natural,  especially when it comes to eyeliner (they often draw a very small line to simply elongate the shape) as the obssession is more about dewy, moisturized skin. However I made sure my model's eyeliner was a little more heavier and over her mono-lids as well as using a highly-pigmented, vibrant pink eyeshadow for it to really pop on my front cover and represent her cool persona.

For my model's hairstyle, I wanted it to be slick, long and dark to make her look more original and contrast with the girly-coloured makeup & clothing choice. Inspired by Kpop artist, CL, I wanted her face to stand out more than her hair which is why I went for a simpler look.

All of these ideas and sources of Korean pop culture, makeup and fashion helped me create the image of my artist:

FRONT COVER: Editing on The Final Shot

When working with my final shot, I did not have to edit anything on my model's face (scars, pimples, marks, dark circles, etc) however as I added my front covers features such as the bright background and vibrantly-coloured artist name, the shot ended up looking very washed out; I edited the photograph at two separate points during the construction of my front page:

As you can see on the left image, the photo looks faded and unsaturated. At this moment, I opened the Levels of the photo and increased the contrast and shadowing as well as decreasing the exposure and brightness.

I then began to add more colour with my artist's name and still felt like the image was too faint so I opened the Hue/Saturation editor and increased the saturation. After that, I went to the Exposure setting and decreased that; here is a side-by-side comparison of the untouched image at first and the final product after editing the photo.

FRONT COVER: Cover Layout Decisions / Photoshop

Here is my entire production of my front cover, explaining what I add and why.

       

Cover Layout Decisions / Photoshop from Ali Teri

FRONT COVER: The Glitch Background

In this slideshow, I show the procedure of creating my glitch background from a photo of a sunset that I took.

         

The Glitch Background from Ali Teri