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Monday, 8 February 2010
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Development of New Fonts
After showing some research for fonts in my research and planning powerpoint, i have decided to explore the website www.fonts.com I have decided to use this as Photoshop's fonts are very restrictive to my genre of magazine. To access fonts from this website i have set up an account and once downloaded these fonts are included into Photoshop's memory. A really interesting font i have discovered is "Dumb" font this looks really interesting as it is very indie styled and looks good on a minimalistic background this looks really impressive for the heading for the double page spread. For my mock up of a title page featuring lostprophets, i used a cube/retro font to create a futuristic look to possibly use. On the other hand this font can give the false impression that this magazine is a pop or old skool magazine. By giving a false impression this would stop potential rock fan readers into opening the background.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Draft Double Page Spread
This is my first draft at my double page spread. I used images from the internet of the band Bring Me The Horizon as an example, this image is appropriate as they have the same physique as my double page model.
I chose the images from google images, as this is just a draft i didn't need to worry about copyright, but if I had my photographs of my model available I would have used this. Initially i planned to place the 2 smaller images at the bottom of the main image. After placing the images there, I noticed that it significantly cut off the bottom part of my image. I then reduced the size of the image so that the smaller images were not covering this, but this made the main image distorted and square shaped. So i decided on moving the two smaller images onto the text page and encorporating those within the text. In my final double page spread i have decided to place the image around the text so the text will follow the contour of the image.
To create the heading i used a Viner Hand ITC font, this creates the illusion of age and neutrality. I then coloured this a deep red to contrast with the black background of the image, to create a sense of unity I moved the text over the image so when the reader looks at this they will see the page as a whole not two seperate pages. To create the text I made two seperate text boxes, i then deleted half of the text in one box and carried the remaining text into the next box. I think there is a way of linking the two boxes so the text flows into the second one similar to Microsoft Publisher, but i need to find out how to use this.
I decide to use a plain white background to see how the text and main image will contrast with this. Once all my images and text were in place i noticed that the page lacked depth, so i decided to gradient the back ground to give it a red tint from the top corner. This works well with the black style images as it resembles anger and frustration.
