Creation of the film review magazine

1. Creation of the Film
Review Magazine
HELK PRODUCTIONS

2. Why InDesign over Photoshop?
 InDesign allowed us to create a magazine which had multiple layers, it’s much
easier to view the layers as it’s clearly laid out. The magazine is a print
design document and in Photoshop the magazine review would have been
rendered in RGB colour whereas an InDesign document is automatically set to
CMYK which is better for print design work. CMYK colour is much richer and
does look better once it’s been printed.
 InDesign gives users more control over typography whereas Photoshop focuses
on the visual side of creation, typography definitely played a strong role in
the creation of the film review as we had to search and install custom fonts
as the standard fonts weren’t what we expecting so we decided to use the
font Bebas Neue in Bold.

3. Why InDesign over Photoshop?
 For someone who is just starting to create print work it’s easier to use as
everything is clearly labelled, it’s much simpler whereas Photoshop a lot of
tweaks need to be made to make something look the way you want and
InDesign has a tone of pre-sets which will help a newbie get a custom to the
in’s and outs of the software.
 InDesign allowed us to create margins for the magazine so everything was in
columns, there was the same amount of space between columns, they were
the same amount distance away from the bottom of the page.

4. Did We use Photoshop?
 Yes, we used Photoshop for the images as the film was yet to be colour graded
and made darker, so in one of the two images we had to apply a navy blue
filter and then change the opacity of the filter to make it look like the
evening and to make it look like it was in the evening and no too dark.