Magazine spread practise

In this lesson we copied a thumbnail that we had designed in class. Here you can see the design of a double page spread, on each page I inserted 3 columns then put dark blue boxes in the spaces where the images would go and with the rest of the space I filled with substitute text, this is where I will be filing the text boxes with my article text. The dark blue box at the top of the double spread demonstrates where I will be putting my article title.
Before doing this task I was unaware of how to make a double page spread on InDesign when opening the software, I also wasn't too sure how I was planning on setting my magazine out however after trial and error I began to realise what sort of layout I wanted. Although I have used this software for many of my other tasks there is still that I do not know about InDesign however after each practise my understanding improves.

Synopsis

The article in my magazine will be discussing the importance of voting for example why teens should be able to have the freedom to have an input about the country we live in, I will be using some slang terms to make the reader feel as though the article is more of a conversation therefore they it will not be dull for them to read. I will be using statistics to show how many teens are involved with politics then explain why they should understand the policies of each campaign which will hopefully trigger the audience to make a conscience decision of which party they would vote for.

As my magazine is aimed at girls I will include the history of voting for women which will make the audience realise that it is important for them to get involved because all of the work previous women have fought to receive women's rights. 

Political Magazine

My magazine will be covering topics such as the history of voting, particularly women voters. I will also be including information about why I think it is important that the younger generation understand politics before they get to the legal age of voting. To do this I will be using statistics that I have found when doing secondary research.

I looked for some images I could use in my magazine to aim at the younger generation, especially girls. This is what I found:

Focus Group

1

2

3

4

This is my focus group, I asked a group of 5 people to look at each of these magazine covers and discuss what they thought of them. For example I asked them how different the cosmopolitan and vogue magazines were in comparison to the total politics magazines. I also asked which ones they preferred and why, also who they think each magazine was aimed at and why.
One of my class mates thought number 3 was very similar to 1 and 4 and she was shocked when she realised that it was in fact the same magazine as 2. Another class mate then suggested that it was because they realised that number 2 didn't interest that many people because it is quite dull therefore attempted to make the cover more approachable to the younger generation. This shows how magazines can look similar and attract the same type of audience yet have a completely different content. This is what I will be trying to achieve in this project.

Copy of magazine spread

For this task we were asked to choose a double page spread in a magazine then copy it almost completely, the software I used was InDesign. I chose a double page spread which had a mixture of columns of text, images and icons. I also understood the importance of using layers on software's like InDesign, for example if I have a separate layer for the text and images they will not effect each other if I am working on one or another and they will stay out of the way. 

Before doing this task I understood the basics of a magazine layout and how different sizes of images and text will catch the reader's eye. I also knew that drop capital are very popular with magazines and are used to tell the reader where to start reading from and that large pull quotes are used to draw the reader to see that certain piece of text.  

After doing this task I now know that magazines have a bleed and that a bleed it used so that the ink printed it larger than the paper so the colour will go to the edge of the paper. This is good because lots of magazines that are being printed in a small amount of time aren't too accurate. I wasn't used to making a page spread on this software and using more columns on the page, I was also new to using text so I used place holder text to fill each of the columns, some had more writing in than others depending on how the magazine I was copying was laid out.

Resolution

This image shows the difference in pixels and the effect they have on an image.

I have chosen this image which is 500 x 334, firstly I will divide these two numbers by 72 to get the physical print size in inches, after this I will divide this by 300. 

Physical Screen Size (inches):

500/72: 6.94 inches

334/72: 4.6 inches

Physical Print Size (inches):

500/300: 0.3 inches

334/300:  1.1 inches

Then to turn inches into millimetres I will multiply the answers I got on the first step by 2.54, finally to get the physical print size in millimetres I will multiply the physical print size answers in inches by 2.54.

Physical Screen Size (mm):

6.94x2.54: 17.6

4.9x2.54: 11.7

Physical Print Size (mm):

0.3x2.54: 0.762 mm

1.1x2.54: 2.794 mm

Accessibility

In this lesson we learnt about accessibility therefore learnt about the importance of subtitles. I went onto my youtube channel and found a video with dialogue, after that I clicked on captions, then set the language to English (United Kingdom) and clicked on set language, after that I went on 'select new subtitles of CC'. After this I selected points in the video that included dialogue and wrote down the subtitles. 

Accessibility: 

Cinemas include disabled access and they also have viewings of films with subtitles. 

TV's have settings which mean you can have subtitles, audio description and sign language.
Radio is only audio therefore it is difficult to make it more accessible however radio presenters speak clearly and use simple language.
Online accessibility can be demonstrated though youtube for example, you can input subheadings 

Signal: The stronger the connection the clearer the feedback when signal is weak the background noise is louder. 

Noise: Something constant, it is also something that competes with what you want to record. 

Interfering noise: Shots hurts of noise which interferes with the noise you are looking for.

Examples:

• Building sites
• Road
• Party
• Restaurant