Friday, 7 October 2016

PRELIM TASK: Flat-plan vs. Contents Page Comparison


There are many changes and features that have stayed the same on my contents page. I have kept the layout roughly the same which shows that I have been using my flatplan for help and inspiration for designing my contents page.

I have kept the layout similar for my contents page as I wanted it simple and clear. I have placed 'CONTENTS' more to the left side as I wanted all of the text justified and I wouldn't be able to have it justified if it was more to the center of the page. I wrote 'Page Numbers' instead of "Page" as I got feedback from a teacher that it would look unprofessional if I wrote "contents page" so therefore I decided to change it to "Page Numbers". The type of shot of my model on my flatplan is a mid-shot but I decided to take a full shot of her sitting down feeling comfortable, relaxed and happy. I also decided that I wanted the masthead of my magazine at the bottom on my contents page as it is different, I thought this was suitable as it shows what magazine the contents page is part of, it wasn't in my flat plan as I never thought about including my masthead at the bottom of my contents page but I decided to add it in after I experimented where I wanted to place it on the contents page. I did some research and found out that most professional magazines have atleast 50 pages so therefore I decided to try and have close to 50 page numbers in total and I kept that the same in my flatplan aswell as my actual contents page.


Monday, 3 October 2016

PRELIM TASK: : Model Consent Forms


PRELIM TASK: Masthead manipulation

This is my masthead manipulation for my front cover magazine. In this picture it shows why I have chose the certain font and how it is suitable for my magazine

PRELIM TASK: Picture Manipulation








PRELIM TASK: Flatplan and front cover comparison

This is a comparison of my flatplan and my front cover.

Similarities 
The similarities in both the flatplan and the frontcover is the masthead for the magazine also the masthead title is called 'CONTROL' in both. The layout is roughly the same apart from the captions on the left.

Differences
The pose of the model is different on the actual magazine front cover and so are the facial expressions. In the flatplan I put in a barcode but then realised that I wasn't going to put a price on my magazine so therefore I wouldn't need a barcode. I also added in a graphic to make the magazine have more features and adding the graphic made the magazine look more like a magazine.

PRELIM TASK: Contents page photo


This is the picture I used for my contents page. The reason why I chose this as my contents page is because I wanted a positive vibe for the contents page which encourages the reader and the buyer to buy it/read more. I have also used a college student so that the image correlates to my magazine and also gives off a more real feeling.

PRELIM TASK: Front Cover Photo



This is the picture I chose for my magazine front cover, The reason why I chose this picture as my front cover is because the theme for my magazine is mainly about dealing with stress, the model in my magazine has a slightly confused expression which anchors the magazine and the captions. Also the clothes he's wearing are good as they mainly have white and black with some navy blue at the bottom which allows me to choose from a variety of colours for my feature colours.