Week 9 - Starting the Magazine

Craft
      This week we began our final project which happens to be a magazine with any piece of artwork we have created which includes everything we have previously done in this class. We can also include other student's artwork in our magazine as long as we make sure we give them credit for their art. So far for this project we only had to create 2 two-page spreads or 1 four-page spread. We are creating our magazines with the use of the Adobe product Indesign, which makes the creation of a magazine easier. The steps to begin a magazine include creating a new document with the set amount of pages that you desire to add to your magazine. After you get all set up, you can go to the master pages and add any details you would want to be expressed on each page by adding it to these pages such as a border, background color, or page number. I used several different tools while using Indesign to create boxes and layouts for the different pages, along with adding text, pictures, and other such items all with the mouse.

Composition
           For the first two pages I created them the way I did with the black background to make the images and variations of the car image I drew to stand out and go well with the orange border around the page considering the car in the image is orange and black. I also used white text throughout these two pages because I feel as though it is easier to read with plain white text and not some color that might be difficult to see or read. On the first two pages I added both the original image and my final draft of my shape object to show accurate my drawing is compared to the original. On the second set of pages I put up a few of the variation pictures i created along with the matrix of those images to show how the color and brush stroke changes from picture to picture. When people look at my magazine, I want them to first see the big orange title at the top of the first page, so they know what that article is about. Secondly I would like the readers to look at the images I added which would then transition into the captions of the images. Finally I want the view to go into the actual text/body copy and read the article and what these images and pages are actually about.

Concept
       The concept of these pages is fairly simple because what I just really want to communicate to the reader are the steps that go into creating these types of images along with the craft, concept, and composition of these images I created.
 

The first two pages of my first 4-page spread of my magazine.

The second two pages of my first 4-page spread of my magazine.