Draft of Content Page

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This is my current draft of my contents page.  I had gone for a London Underground design almost, with the route being the magazine contents.

What’s New

  • Whole ‘London underground’ design
  • Pictures of artists featured in the magazine with captions
  • Page numbers and whats featured in them

What’s Next

  • Add page numbers
  • Make the image bigger
  • Add more information to what the pages are about.
  • Add catchy captions

What is a Contents Page?

Before I create my own contents page, I need to think about some general layouts for a contents page

Contents pages  are used to direct the user for certain content, by using a content page, the reader can flip to any page they want, and know what it is about. They are used to hook, entice, intrigue and inform the reader.

Here are the conventions of a Contents Page :

  • Title
  • Page Numbers
  • Photographs as well as graphic illustrations
  • Editors Hello
  • Title
  • Catchy Captions.

A New Improved DPS

 

What’s New

  • I made the image of Fran larger and put her on the right.
  • I also placed the squares (which were taking up empty space), behind the text, the Article name and the opening
  • I also edited the title placement making it more unique

What’s Next

  • Maybe add more color to the whole design
  • Add page numbers
  • Add more of the article
  • Make the image of Fran even bigger.

Feedback & Reflection on Draft DPS

Teacher Feedback :

Mrs Cobb : Make the masthead larger and the image of Fran larger, also use the empty space on the right where the squares are

Student Feedback:

Etienne said he really liked the overall design, especially the font, although he thought the image was too small

 

Targets

  • Make the image of Fran Larger
  • Make the name of the artist larger
  • move around my format so there is less empty space taken up.

Design Skills 1

Throughout this first term of my media course, I have improved my design skills, especially on software such as Photoshop and InDesign. In photoshop I learned both the use of the curves tool, to change lighting to either make a photo brighter or darker, and using the noise affect to add grain to a photo. I also used the colour filter if I wanted to change the appearance of a photo overall.

While I had a previous knowledge of photoshop before I took media, I had no knowledge of how to use Indesign, through using indesign, I have learnt how to create more basic things like textboxes to more advanced things such as gradients using the gradient feather tool, there is also a range of formatting options for text, being able to change the angle of text, move them closer together and moving them closer apart from each other. I also learnt how to create a drop capital in an article more recently.

Overall I think that I have added to my photoshop knowledge and gained a lot of knowledge of InDesign. I used these tools to make my design fit the genre, for example on the masthead of my magazine I added a white border around it to make it a more calming colour, to fit with my overall calmness of my indie magazine, it also made it stand out against the background.

Second Shoot Contact Sheet(s)

 

Above you can see the contact sheets for my second shoot at Castle Cornet, We went out for the day and had the whole area for ourselves to use for our photoshoots. I think the shoot went really well, portraying exactly what I wanted from the shoot, although I did not foresee the use of the Afghan Coat used in the shoot. Also above are the images that turned out the best, I think they turned out they turned out good due to the poses that are used and the amount of empty space as well as the background