Monday, 16 December 2013
Production Log #16 - Improvements to Magazine Pages
16th December 2013
Today's lesson was a very productive lesson, not only did I complete my first double page spread, i moved onto make an extra double page spread for my box outs and readers page which was a page recommended by my target audience in a survey which I conducted a time ago.
I read through the article once again to make sure that it made sense, in between I added more text into the interview as I had very good ideas which I didn’t want to miss out in including them in my article. I also added text after an important paragraph informing the reader that they should watch a certain video or buy an album. This text was in italics so that It’s different from the rest of the surrounded by it.
Today's lesson was a very productive lesson, not only did I complete my first double page spread, i moved onto make an extra double page spread for my box outs and readers page which was a page recommended by my target audience in a survey which I conducted a time ago.
I read through the article once again to make sure that it made sense, in between I added more text into the interview as I had very good ideas which I didn’t want to miss out in including them in my article. I also added text after an important paragraph informing the reader that they should watch a certain video or buy an album. This text was in italics so that It’s different from the rest of the surrounded by it.
Model Release
In order for me to take images for my magazine, I had to get permission from my models in whether they would allow me to use their images in any of my media assets I will produce. Natalie and Georgia signed the model release the grant me permission to take images of them and use it for my media product.
Production Log #15 - Starting My Double Page Spread
9th/10th December 2013
Over the past 2 lessons, I have been mainly updated and improving my magazine pages, however this week I've been focusing on my double page spread.
I completed my final look of my front cover and contents page. I decided to focus on my double page last as the easy task of these pages would be adding the article text by just copying it from where I wrote it and then paste it into the columns.
Over the past 2 lessons, I have been mainly updated and improving my magazine pages, however this week I've been focusing on my double page spread.
I completed my final look of my front cover and contents page. I decided to focus on my double page last as the easy task of these pages would be adding the article text by just copying it from where I wrote it and then paste it into the columns.
I have taken a decision that I will be making 2 double pages and 2 pages of photos which will have box outs and additional to text related to the article.
On the first page of my double page spread, there is an introductionary page of my artist with a caption to support it.
I had quite difficulties at the beginning of the lesson becuase the software was not working for me as my texts boxes where being rearraged just after I opened it. When I opened up the document, each box was overlapping meaning I had to arrange them the way I needed to, this took me 10 minutes to solve out.
I copied and pasted my article which I already had typed up on a word document and I also had a back up on my blog. I made the quotes bold which were within in the text so that it could be slightly eyecatchy in the text instead of have the same standard block text.
I decided to have a pull quote on the first page of the article.
I copied and pasted my article which I already had typed up on a word document and I also had a back up on my blog. I made the quotes bold which were within in the text so that it could be slightly eyecatchy in the text instead of have the same standard block text. I decided to have a pull quote on the first page of the article.
On the 10th December 2013, I continued to add all the essential components of the article into the page, which slowly started to build up the magazine 'exclusive' article.As you can see from both images, I have made a big progress in the first double page article of my magazine. I've added more text, and replaced the text 'Pull Quote' with a quote taken from the article. I had to think about which quote to pick so that the reader will be interested into reading more into finding out why they artist said that.
Monday, 9 December 2013
Production Log #14 - Progess of Draft Magazine
2nd/3rd December 2013
In both lessons, I continued to work on my front cover. I made a lot of progress, I also edited few things onto the front cover as I wasn't satisfied with the look of it.
Before After
I added more cover lines, as I knew what cover lines I was going to have, the process of adding the cover lines to the front cover didn't take me long. Also I played around with the fonts and the sizes as well. This is because I wanted to make that the font and size are clear and suitable for the front cover. As the front cover is the most appealing page to get the attention of my reader, I have to make sure that this page stands out and appeal to my audience.
In both lessons, I continued to work on my front cover. I made a lot of progress, I also edited few things onto the front cover as I wasn't satisfied with the look of it.
Before After
I've kept the main sell line 'Name' this is because I'm playing around with different fonts to make the name stand out more. I also needed to adjust the sell line description in which why the artist name has been removed.
I thought of the idea to have two rectangles going across to make it more modern and eye appealing, also as the main sell line would be on the rectangles, it's gives more focus to that part of the page compared to any other places on the page.
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Production Log #13- Building Up My Front Cover Template
25th/26th November 2013
On Monday’s lesson I completed off producing my contents page by adding in all the subheading of the contents pages and all the important keyu featuees of the contents page. This task was very time consuming as it was hard to align the text and the numbers next to each other; however I persevered and got there eventually. For my contents page all I have to do is add the images which I would like in my contents page. As I haven’t done my photoshoot yet, I have to leave the black boxes there as the template of the image.After this task, I thought to start off building up my front cover, but before I could do that, I blogged my contents page process and spoke about what I substituted in the place holder text.
On the front cover, I started to place all the cover lines I wanted to include. My homework for this week was to write all the cover lines that will feature on my front cover. This made half of the task very easy to do as I only had to copy and paste the cover lines and place them where I desired. I have one main cover line which is positioned at the bottom and is on the left, this is because we read from ‘left to right’ and that is the ‘sweet spot’ of the magazine which the audience will be caught attention too, after looking at the image.
On Tuesday I carried on with my front cover, I made a lot of progress on my front cover since the scaffold/template design of my magazine.
The first image shows the first idea I had for my magazine, and then the 2nd image shows the other layout which I prefer. This shows that I have been making process by experimenting will different styles, layouts and tools to achieve this progress.
This task has got me thinking on where I should position everything on my front cover as we need to consider on how I can get the attention of a reader on my magazine and make them want to buy it.
On Monday’s lesson I completed off producing my contents page by adding in all the subheading of the contents pages and all the important keyu featuees of the contents page. This task was very time consuming as it was hard to align the text and the numbers next to each other; however I persevered and got there eventually. For my contents page all I have to do is add the images which I would like in my contents page. As I haven’t done my photoshoot yet, I have to leave the black boxes there as the template of the image.After this task, I thought to start off building up my front cover, but before I could do that, I blogged my contents page process and spoke about what I substituted in the place holder text.
On the front cover, I started to place all the cover lines I wanted to include. My homework for this week was to write all the cover lines that will feature on my front cover. This made half of the task very easy to do as I only had to copy and paste the cover lines and place them where I desired. I have one main cover line which is positioned at the bottom and is on the left, this is because we read from ‘left to right’ and that is the ‘sweet spot’ of the magazine which the audience will be caught attention too, after looking at the image.
On Tuesday I carried on with my front cover, I made a lot of progress on my front cover since the scaffold/template design of my magazine.
The first image shows the first idea I had for my magazine, and then the 2nd image shows the other layout which I prefer. This shows that I have been making process by experimenting will different styles, layouts and tools to achieve this progress.
This task has got me thinking on where I should position everything on my front cover as we need to consider on how I can get the attention of a reader on my magazine and make them want to buy it.
Equipment
The equipment task can help me with my final prouct as by indentifying the equipment I need to build up magazine I can understand what they are as well as showing proof on what I will be using to create my magazine.
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