Construction.
As the brief was given I started to research many existing Sunday supplements. Research was needed to give a better understanding as to what techniques and codes are used to separate them from other magazines. The conventions that I have used for my supplement are: large pictures, main and sub headings, intensity of lighting on images, medium shots of actress, large quotes, columned interview and a certain representation of the interviewee. After researching quite some depth into the supplements I noticed these codes that were used, all the magazines had used these codes and techniques. I then constructed a hand drawn draft of the layout of my magazine. The layouts of all three types of supplements (broadsheet, tabloid, daily) were varied so I chose the most convenient layout of the Sunday times as this had not too much text and 2-3 images on a double page spread article. I decided that my supplement would consist of a front cover, two adverts; double page spread article and a contents page.
All of the pages have been constructed using many layers and all the following effects plus those added below: Tool Type, Eraser, Free Transform, Magic Wand, Copy, Crop, Paste, Airbrush, three different dodge tools. The front cover needed a name; the existing names used were like, 'Sunday', 'review', 'culture' etc. I chose a name, which I thought, would describe my supplement and its contents so 'ADVANCE' because my supplement tells the facts and reviews before anyone else. I chose to colour the background red as it makes the Oscar stand out. The scanned image of the Oscar was placed to link with the article inside. Tools used were mainly tool type (headings), layer effect (emboss, for title & outer glow for Oscar), gradient (background colour). The second page of my supplement is a television advert. All the supplements that I researched had entertainment ads such as TV's, hi-fis and DVDs, so I decided to create my own. Two original images have been used on TV ad.1. The television 2. The eyes. These were taken with a digital camera supplied by the college. The advert is supposed to resemble one of the 'different' adverts that are used in present magazines. Tools mainly used rubber stamp (TV image), eraser (fitting image), layer effect (outer bevel for title).
As the brief was given I started to research many existing Sunday supplements. Research was needed to give a better understanding as to what techniques and codes are used to separate them from other magazines. The conventions that I have used for my supplement are: large pictures, main and sub headings, intensity of lighting on images, medium shots of actress, large quotes, columned interview and a certain representation of the interviewee. After researching quite some depth into the supplements I noticed these codes that were used, all the magazines had used these codes and techniques. I then constructed a hand drawn draft of the layout of my magazine. The layouts of all three types of supplements (broadsheet, tabloid, daily) were varied so I chose the most convenient layout of the Sunday times as this had not too much text and 2-3 images on a double page spread article. I decided that my supplement would consist of a front cover, two adverts; double page spread article and a contents page.
All of the pages have been constructed using many layers and all the following effects plus those added below: Tool Type, Eraser, Free Transform, Magic Wand, Copy, Crop, Paste, Airbrush, three different dodge tools. The front cover needed a name; the existing names used were like, 'Sunday', 'review', 'culture' etc. I chose a name, which I thought, would describe my supplement and its contents so 'ADVANCE' because my supplement tells the facts and reviews before anyone else. I chose to colour the background red as it makes the Oscar stand out. The scanned image of the Oscar was placed to link with the article inside. Tools used were mainly tool type (headings), layer effect (emboss, for title & outer glow for Oscar), gradient (background colour). The second page of my supplement is a television advert. All the supplements that I researched had entertainment ads such as TV's, hi-fis and DVDs, so I decided to create my own. Two original images have been used on TV ad.1. The television 2. The eyes. These were taken with a digital camera supplied by the college. The advert is supposed to resemble one of the 'different' adverts that are used in present magazines. Tools mainly used rubber stamp (TV image), eraser (fitting image), layer effect (outer bevel for title).
