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Task 10 - Evaluation Brandon Parker
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Task 10 evaluation

Nov 11, 2014

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Task 10 - EvaluationBrandon Parker

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Peer Feedback

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I asked my peers what they thought about my final design what they felt were the good and bad points. The main point that was put across was my lack of columns, as in a broadsheet you tend to have more just two on a full page although with my work i felt worked better just being spread across two although if I was to redo it I would take that idea into consideration. Also having my pull quote just in the middle of one paragraph it could of been across both instead although when I did originally make this that was the intension although when had made it the text wrap around it made the text look bad.

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I then asked out of these which did they feel worked best and was their favourite and why, the bottom tabloid front cover was the biggest hit because it related to the time in which the story would have been originally written and so does make more sense when I was making this I used the style of an old tabloid that wrote about this story in order to make it look as close to that as possible and so did work, my favourite was the top one as I prefer the modern look although that would be more suitable with a different story.

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I then asked for which they felt was the better fanzine out of the two, they decided that the bottom again was the better of the two which I agree with and I feel does look more like a fanzine would instead of the top one which is mainly just block of text surrounding an image whereas I have included a variety of different images all around having text split up admittedly I could of been more creative but because there was a lot of text i wanted to be able to be understood easily.

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Evaluation of my work

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After creating a mock up of the flat plans that I had already made after importing all my text and images that I had sourced in I realised that using that layout wouldn’t be the most appealing for the work I had written. The normal style for a magazine for an article like this wouldn’t be this way layed out but since it was for a paper needed and work better in a formal and nicely layed out format.

Trying not to leave to much white spice but nice sized guttering between all the copy and all the images and by doing so gives a better look overall. After importing my first image I felt that sticking with a black and white theme seemed the best option and colour would of looked completely out of place, but also since I was covering or writing my own version of an old story it seemed more logical and would appear to be more realistic as it fits in with the time even though there was colour printing happening at this time.

I used techniques that are seen most commonly throughout papers such as a drop a drop capital for the start of my report, using text warp in order to fit text around images and also using it for a pull quote which in itself is another technique, and is also well fitted and would draw in attention which is the whole idea behind using a pull quote as it should include text from within page that would appeal and interest the reader into reading the full story.

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My second page layout concept of my news report that I have written is inspired by looking at real life news papers and how they are presented which overall gives it the best look out of the three that I have made overall. I started by using a blank a4 sheet and using guides with 4 rows and 6 columns I was then able to spread my work nicely out by working around the margins and the boxes. As I liked the black and white theme I felt that using the same images again would be the best option and do work well with the overall presentation of the article. The techniques that I used were having the drop capital for the beginning line of the whole body of text as it most common with any news article. I decided against having a pull quote as the body of text fit perfectly in the areas that I wanted it in and so if I was to add a pull quote would disrupt the look of the overall piece and the gap around it wouldn’t look as attractive whereas at this stage looks clean which is my key feature or the feature I try to at least stick to as I want it to be presentable, easy to read but admittedly having things jump out at the reader is important in order to be attractive for the reader to want to read it but the images would draw them in. The amount of white space throughout this piece is very minimal but not to much that the work looks crowded as it is still easily read and approachable without being confused about the layout the most would be seen around the title but that’s because the title needs to be bold and needs to be seen easily.

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The first front cover design that I did using the times header worked well and looks good and to me looks as though it could be used straight away as its of a decent quality and looks like a tabloid front cover although I only used a few different techniques and I felt I could change the layout abit more even though I would stick to using the same sizes of the written copy and the same images but just re-arrange the top with the header as it is unusual to have a three word title one word under each other. By doing so meant I would have to change sizes of fonts and even move around some text in order to make it fit and keep it to having a high quality finish that I would be happy with. I included a sub heading which is there to add to the affect of the title of the piece, used a drop capital for the start of the text and used a pull quote from with the text in order to entice the readers, just to add the effect of a newspaper I even included the ‘CYMK’ colours at the bottom of the page as you see on most newspapers. This is my final piece for the front cover of a tabloid and I feel I have achieved a standard that I am very happy with.

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For task 8 using the same story we were asked to make the front cover for a tabloid newspaper, out of choice I used the sun as my header, by looking through images of what the front of the sun would normally look like I was able to make up my own concept that I feel could look relatable to them and might even be used by them.With the front of the sun its never just one story they tend to include a few different in order to attract the reader by showing off as many of the stories included as possible, but by doing this means they cant cover the whole story just on the front page so they would just include the beginning of the story to be appealing and make them want to read the rest of the story, and by adding ‘Read on Page…’ gives them that inspiration to read the rest of the story if its appealing to them. They also tent to have white letters for headers instead of white so it doesn’t look like there is a lot of white space so instead in more black space although on mine there's a lot more than there would be on a real newspaper.

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After looking over my first attempt at a tabloid newspaper I realised there was many different little tweaks I could make to the one I have already made and so I had a look at making it closer to being the look of a tabloid, I changed the font size and font face as the one I had used originally didn’t have the look of what a paper would normally and so by doing this meant I could fill up more of the white space left around the text. The text was all in one text when I did it the first time but to allow for me to change the spacing between each of the words I felt it would be easier if I was to have them in three different text boxes and would allow for me to then choose a good spacing between each of the works and mean the text could be as big as I wanted with the space allocated. I also included a drop capital into the text that is there to try and entice the reader into seeing the complete story as the white space around made the text look to small and tight to read and by adding this I felt give the text more space.

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For my third attempt I used the same story, headers and pictures but I decided to include another story as I moved around my title for the main story. I looked at a few more different styled layouts for The Sun and by looking at that decided I could vitiate it and allow for another story to be included. The Sun are well known for the puns in headlines and headers and so I’ve done my best in order to re-create this with the stories of my choice. I also realised that The Sun stay away from having white space on the front and so needs to be completely covered if possible, even though I feel it can sometimes loom over the top I tried to produce my own version that I felt was as close as it could be to full. I also decided for the main block of text I would have in white and the back ground black to match the headline and have it seem as the though the text and image was put onto a completely black background as this seems to contrast more with the red of the front page header and also means that the most amount of attention is given to the bold headline in white.

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For my last design I thought I should try and recreate what the paper would of looked like at the time that this even that I have done my story for actually occurred. In order to do so I had a look at papers that were around at the same time and that were the same sort of style as the sun in order to create my own version or perception of what I felt it could look like with my story. It appears that the layout is still the same in a many way with just having a few different stories on the front page, only have having a small part of the main story and having the rest inside to read to entice readers. To give it a more old styled effect look I changed the opacity on the headline, header and the images that are included this gives it a warn out look in a way although would just of been because the printers weren't at the same standard as they are today. I then went in search of finding a style of paper that looks old fashioned and people create the old look by staining paper with tea and so by finding the most look a like to what old papers look like I added it on top of my piece then send to back so that everything would be on top and then to finish it off change the opacity on that so that it was as strong as it was so that it looks a lot more realistic and not just tea stained for effect.

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For my first Fanzine design using my own Fanzine that I have written myself I designed starting with a black ground seemed like the best style for it and have white writing, after deciding this looked at how I was going to spread out my text in a way that I felt would suit a punk fanzine and having it split into three different sections in a font that I feel looks like stylistic handwriting I feel is the most appealing I could make the text loo and have it fit in with the style of fanzine I'm creating. Originally I had the title across the top but I felt it would look better somewhere else and I used a standard font so I looked again o find one that would relate to the house style and used that as my heading for this text and then rotated the text to go up the side of the page. For the images that I included I used band icons from this type of music I felt they would be most relatable for this and so by incorporating them it started to look like a fanzine for this subculture, I didn’t want colour on the page just black and white so I only used icons that would suit the page and make it look most appealing, adding some behind the text and some on the edges of the page but each also faded out to make it look as though images were on there first and the text added on top.

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For my second fanzine i used the same idea as my first having a black background with white writing as it makes the text look more bold and stand out more and to me makes it more appealing I changed the font for the text but I kept the title’s font the same as I feel I there isn’t better fonts that I feel would be more appealing. I had seen a layout that’s very similar to how I have layed mine and I felt I should try it with having two main text boxes and a main picture in the middle and for what I have does I felt that it worked well, I started my text before I had even written my title as fanzines there's no start and finish it can be layed out how ever and so just changing little things like that can affect your perception of the whole fanzine and it works well for mine. The picture that I sourced from the internet works well within this as the text is about punk fashion and this is a punk symbol that has been stitched onto some denim and so fits in with the topic which is key when putting in imagery.

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Summary My time management was well done I was able to get all my

planning done the day that the work was set which ment I was left with more time in order to get my final pieces done for each different topic before I was set more, I always knew if I didn’t have something done then id have to stay behind but that was an incentive to get the work done but not rushed to the best of my ability. For each part I was making at least 3 different parts and with this I was evaluating my work and being self critical in order to make my next one better till I reached the standard I wanted. Out of my three final images the most technical piece had to of been my tabloid as I kept making little adjustments every time I made one and sourcing all of my images but that was the piece I was most happy with and so I feel spending the most amount of time going back to was well worth it, it was my favourite of all three to of designed as I felt the fanzine because it was mainly based around my subculture and I have lost interest in it didn’t really appeal to me anymore whereas with the others I was just adding in my story but I was able to make the paper to own according.