Task 4
What was task four all about?
Task 4 is basically an introduction to layout, front cover and magazine design, in this task I learnt about layout, front cover and page spread terminologies and researched and evaluated four double page spreads and front covers each.
What did you do?
To evaluate the spreads and covers I chose I had to know the terminologies of layout and magazine design, so what I did first was learn the terminologies and list them in a documents, afterwards I had to put the terms into play with a layout to get well acquainted with them, to do this I basically listed and pointed out the terms and described them briefly on a Photoshop document.
After this I moved onto actually evaluating the double page spreads, my idea was to evaluate two Kerrang! magazine spreads and two Vogue magazine layouts, however my tutor recommended that I have a look at some other layouts, to give the evaluations more contrast and variety because I would be comparing them all later on in the task. After I had completed evaluating the double page spread layouts and the front covers, I uploaded the original images to this site and compared them on here instead of using a Photoshop document, I did this because I was a little confused as to how I'd present the comparison without creating a really really big file on Photoshop, that would then be difficult to upload because of the account file size limitations here on Weebly (the size limit for a free account is 10MB).