Typography

By experimenting with different fonts with words I can truly see the different affects that it can have with certain words as they typography just like colours have a secret meaning that not all people can understand without studying it.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life  itself.  John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life;


education is life  itself.  John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life  itself.  John Dewey

by using the different fonts I have tried my bet to try and analyse and create different ways that this quote can convey different meanings. For example by having the words in Bold it could essentially be the word being a loud statement having it stand out for the rest as this is something very important that everyone should know about. By having the word in small fonts and small sizes it could be something silent that most people could skim by and wont acknowledge it .

By doing this I am beginning to train my self to understand different ways that artists can illustrate a different meaning through different fonts and the ways that they have wrote things to try and connect with readers even in books and novels.

 In the course of a week I have only been able to get 3 answers on my survey about the magazine that I am initially trying to create. From now I will try and analyse the information that is present and also try and understand the reason why I may have received such small responses.

The first question of how old are you ? I noticed that from the 3 people that have answered the survey that I most of them are ages 15. Knowing this I can analyze what my potential audience will be like for my initial magazine when I have made it and what type of audience I will have to cater for.

On the next question I realized that the majority of people that answered my question are male, however I did have one female. This may show that  I may need to have more information catering for males than females with the information present but that doesn't mean I shouldn't have any information in my magazine for the opposite sex.

With the information present I can see that I have mixed answer as to be expected as most people wont share the same interests. With this information I can see that I will need to have pages that include the hobbies of the people that have answered this question to keep them interested and also to attract other people to my magazine.

With the information present on this question I can see that most of the teens have their parents as motivations for life. So through this I could get a page dedicated to a small speech from a famous older person who is a parent or a famous grandfather to someone in a certain subject to be an inspiration to the youth.

By seeing who some bodies role model is I can layout my magazine in a way that can correlate with the answers that they have given. By seeing who someones role model is I can essentially see what kind of career path or academic structure they are trying to base their lives around and by doing this I can allocate certain pages in my blog to what they have answered with.

By seeing who someones motivation in life is, I can see what kind of career path or what life style they are striving towards and also I can have brief understanding of why these people my be their motivations in life due to the facts of they childhood for the example of their parents or grandparents being the motivations in their life.

Typography in magazines is seen not to be a huge deal but has a massive impact on how someone perceives and reads something by the way the design of certain words are written out. The majority of the answers that I received said that they prefer typography that stands out from other words which could potentially mean that they subconsciously like to stand out from the crowd or make a statement about something which is very useful for the way I could plan out my Mast head on my magazine.

With the question what do you like about high school I presumed that some or most teenagers despised high school but I got a mixed response. Some said that they enjoyed high school because of the teachers and subjects and someone said other but that could be to represent nothing. This lets me know that in my magazine even tho it is aimed at the youth I shouldn't be reluctant to provide pages about school and some academic features or topics that could benefit the youth in the their future such as a guide line to certain jobs.

With the question about contrasting colours I made mistake by not saying no just FYI. some people said they like contrasting colours such as yellow and black and red and blue. I believe that the colours have connotations that could essentially be aimed at the youth of today and the way that they view themselves. Such as the colour blue which has connotations of freedom which could essentially mean that teenagers want to be free and not have anything holding them back in life.

With this question what do you not like about magazines I also got a mixed response of what people didn't like about magazines. According the information present I shouldn't focus on cramming so much writing and information into a page but use small paragraphs which also could have images to correspond with them to allow people to not be bored just reading but can also have a picture to reflect and relate to.

And finally the question what designs do you like I left as an open question to allow people to really give me their real thoughts about what designs they feel really resonate with them. one person said they like words that stand out empower people to feel strong because they are reading the certain magazine I believe this could also relate to the typography. By seeing this I can also adjust my design of what my magazine will finally look like.

 

 

 

 

During lessons we have begun to use indesign which is quite similar to photoshop however quite a bit different. Before we started using indesign we was told to find a magazine front cover that we would like to recreate and try to make them ourselves using indesign. Through this I stumbled across the magazine front cover of attitude featuring Gary barlow from 2012 attitude awards. The reason I chose this front cover over others was due to the fact that it was simple and didnt have that much information on it to add as I have just only begun to use indesign.
However looking at the content of the magazines front cover that I have chosen there is a lot more detail and information going on that meets the eye that i noticed while using indesign. Most things that would appear common and easy seemed to be the more difficult things for me to grasp on indesign. For example one of the most difficult things that I have encountered and that I am still dealing with is trying to get the mast head 'attitude' behind Gary Barlows head without the entire word disappearing.
After picking the front cover magazine that we wanted to recreate we had to watch a video which would train us in a small amount of time in a step by step process of some of the key concepts of indesign that we would need to try and recreate the magazine. The link to the video is here -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9vGs9PqSq&safe=active


When i started the first thing that i did was use construction lines on the blank A4 piece of paper that we start off with on indesign. I made sure that the construction lines on the A4 piece of paper correlated with the original attitude magazine front cover featuring Gary Barlow. As you can see i made sure that the middle section gave enough room for his body and tried my best to line it up within the centre of the page. One misteake that i made was that i made Gary Barlow smaller than he should of been. Gary barlow should be much bigger in the magazine front cover that i have tried to recreate along with the word attitude reaching each end of the magazine page. Further more Gary Barlows name should be bigger along with most of the other wordings in the magazine front cover. However this is not the finished version but where I am currently at.

After watching the different videos that was present of the youtube channel featuring indesign I tried my best to get Gary Barlow behind the text that i had on the front cover but at the same time trying to have attitude behind his head. At the moment I am still struggling with this and i should be able to do this soon. To put something behind a different object or layer it was difficult as before in Gcse we used Photoshop and it was all about layers however on indesign we had to use Ctrl with shift and [ to put something behind something else, and to use this ] to do vice versa.

I tried to use word and publisher to crop the original photo of attitude featuring Gary Barlow to obtain important key objects that aren't present in my recreation of it such as, the bar code at the bottom left hadn corner the text on the right hand side and also the small orange sticker that is above the barcode on the left hand side. however i was unable to do this so i am currently looking for an alternative to this and hopefully find a way around this.


As of now this is as far as i have got using indesign and recreating my chosen attitude magazine front cover of Gary barlow hopefully in the future i will be able to upload the finished product.

This is the task that was set during one of my lessons that allowed me to plan and understand what kind of questions I was going to use during the actual questionnaire that I was going to send out.

By doing this I gave myself an initial idea of what kind of questions I was going to ask by doing this I would preserve time during the real questionnaire by not having questions that repeat the same questions.

This was another piece that was set during the class. This allowed me to make a plan and mind map what kind of audiences I would be exposed to by planning who I thought would initially be interested in my upcoming magazine. By doing this I can sort out what kind of content I want to be in magazine and through that I can try and see what kind of content people ( teenagers ) would be interested in by looking at other schools magazines and comparing and contrasting the differences between them 

Product analysis

Price £4.99

Advertisers -  Cartoon network PlayStation portable Clothing and toys

Animated Movies - Secret of the Omnitrix, Race against time, Alien Swarm, Destroy all Aliens.

Music - TV series cartoon theme.

Reader interactions - Young children who most likely try to get freebies from the magazine such as toys or vouchers.

Promotions and interactions - Play station portable discounts and bundles hints on upcoming new aliens for the cartoon series, cartoon facts about cartoon characters.

Content - Colouring pads for different aliens, Alien suggestions for the series, agony page, website links for kids.

Market segmentation

Young kids from ages of 7 going onto the ages of 14 and 15 with disposable income from parents e.g. pocket money. Also helps with the production of this cartoon show as the kids will go out and buy the magazine if they notice that there may be freebies in the magazine that will help them understand the plot and scenarios of each individual episode.

The Design - The magazine in itself is quite sufficient in the way that it is advertised towards children will lots of light and bright colours such as yellow and occasional blue. However as for content it is quite limited from an older individuals perspective as they know what to expect from reading novels or any other magazine however for a child this would seem like a lot.

Mast head doesn't scream you -  The mast head doesnt scream out at you as much as the catchphrase at the bottom saying Ben needs you which is also quite useful as it wont disway the audience from the more important factors of the magazine. The mast head blends in the with the background however can sometimes stand out if focused on