Week 11

Assignment:

This week we had to finalize our magazine spreads and create a table of contents and a credit page for the authors.

Craft:

Process- I created these pages of the magazine by using the same approach that I used to create the previous spreads of the magazine. For these three components I chose to have all three look similar, using the same colors and fonts, to add another component of the magazine that is uniform.

Technique- I improved the spreads by going back to each one and making the font style and font size consistent throughout all of the spreads. I also made some last minute changes to the spreads as well, such as adding the page numbers and completing the last two spreads that were missing from the magazine.

Composition:

For the cover of the magazine I took out the people from my illustration of the beach and used it as the cover image, along with a banner of stars to go along with the magazine's title, Star Weekly. I also took some of the article titles and formed them into headlines for the cover as well. For the table of contents and the credits page I incorporated the stars from the cover into the pages and used the same text through the two pages to make them look similar as well. The two inside pages that I created use the same two text sizes, fonts, and images from the cover on both pages. This helps to bring the magazine together as a whole.

Concept:

The plan for this project from the begining was to make this magazine look like a typical, professional magazine. I feel that I have accomplished this goal by putting everything together this week and adding the last components of the magazine to make it all come together. I now have a finalized version of my magazine project, that looks even better than what I had imagined prior to starting the project.

Also, this week we began creating our web portfolio by first exporting all of our magazine spreads to jpg images. Then we used the iweb program to begin creating a welcome page and an about the author page before we create a slideshow of our spreads for next week's class.