Week 12 : The Start of the Magazine

 

     Here are the first two spreads of the magazine project. 

Craft- In order to create these two spreads I started on page 2 and created a box to place a picture in. I did this by selecting the box tool without the outline, formed the box at about the size and placement I was looking for, selected file and place. I got the pictures from the first project we did off of my USB drive. Once the picture was on the page, I right clicked on the image and selected "fit proportionally to frame" in order to get as much of the image inside the box as I could without misshaping it. I then logged onto this blog site and looked for relevant blogs for that particular page. Once I found the blog I wanted, I created texts boxes in the places that I thought were aesthetically pleasing and interesting and copy/pasted the blog into the appropriate text boxes making sure the font was 10pt Times. I then created a headline for the page, making it a bold and eye catching color/font, I typed a By: line after that in a less exaggerated font also. The last thing I did was create a quote. I did this by copy/pasting an interesting line from my blog and placing it in an interesting spot on the page, making it colorful and a creative font, but just enough so that it doesn't take away from the headline. I did this same process for every page. 

Composition- I wanted to create pages that are pleasing to the eye while at the same time containing all of the information that the assignment calls for. The main focus is to concentrate on the picture, headline and quote in order to draw the reader into wanting to read the body text. I thought hard about where I wanted to place everything so that the readers eye wanders around the whole page.

Concept- The concept of this project is to show the viewer everything that has been done throughout this class in detail, meaning from practice illustrations to get used to a certain program to the final product. Also, to explain the process throughout by including the blogs that have been created.