Editorial Design: Final

I took some photographs of my finished final and wanted to share them: though I am awful at mounting them, often leaving glue marks and rarely keeping them straight, I think they look quite nice side by side.

I'm glad I managed to incorporate sharp lines into the page which contrast the soft, roundness of the circles which manage to show everything I want them to show of the photo. Despite this, a few of the black line joins were off centre, though hardly noticeably.

I should have been much more careful with the page numbers, as when it was printed, many were cut off. I placed them too far towards the edge, but feel I have now learnt and will be more wary of this next time. I'm thankful that none of the content was cut off.

After my last module, I checked the resolution of all images used, and google searched large files, alongside downloading original size files from flickr, to make sure none were blurred or skewed. Again, learning from my past mistakes.

I think I could see this in a magazine, and feel I hit my target audience well. I feel I've made the pages flow well together and look on part with each other, and therefore am extremely happy with how it came out.

Editorial Design: Final

I really enjoyed this module and feel it has strengthened my hope of specialising in the area. I must admit that I am quite pleased with the way my spread looks, and though I was only asked for two, I created 8. I think this was necessary as I wanted the spread to be complete, and feel had I stuck to the two I was required to create, a lot of aspects would have been missed out.

I think the front cover looks quite smart. After all of the development I produced, I finally settled on a very simple horizontal black line growing across the page, and the headline being on top of the number, in white. I felt this drew interest to the place and the number, without being conventional and boring. I also used an arial image of the London skyline, as I felt it was quite beautiful: with the blue of the number matching the blue of the Thames. 

The second page again incorporates the blue amongst black lines: the image spans across three quarters of the page, with the rest of the page being black. I wrote an introductory paragraph for the article, and placed this half way in the black background part of the page. The writing was left white. 

On the first page of the actual content, I decided to have the images in circles as I felt this was quirky and matched the modern style of the spreads. I also decided to keep the black lines as a recurring theme throughout the article, tying all the pages together. 

Similar to the first page of the article, I used the exact layout but this time flipped horizontally: I also used a different image of an iconic piece of London. 

Instead of using diagonal lines, for the middle page I used the same layout as the cover spread, a horizontal line. I think the circles being bigger than the line is quite quirky, and I also added a pull quote to disrupt the blank white space. 

In keeping with the rest of the spread I added another page to interrupt the article. Whilst researching for the article, I found many tips and hints, alongside apps for travellers to use to have a similar experience of a local and felt it would be quite a nice touch to add them. On this page, I wrote down certain apps and their qualities, such as AirBnB. 

Finally, if you count the amount of places I used, it was in fact 12. I didn't want the page to be too empty, and I also wanted to use the same layout style, so therefore added two extra places from the content research. I added the line of "two more for good luck." but feel I could have chosen something more in keeping and wittier now in hindsight. This page was laid out similar to the first page of content.

On the last page, I added the conclusion of the article. I wanted it to signify the last page of the spread, but I also feel this wasn't necessarily needed. In looking at most other spreads, conclusions are scarcely used especially in this context, but I felt it important to have something to break up the article and the next in the magazine.

For my first Editorial, though there are a lot of things I would change and do differently, I feel quite confident in what I produced. I think the next time I produce something of this nature I want to experiment more strongly with typography and contemporary designs, but I began this module wanting to create a modern article that would appeal to my target audience, and I feel I achieved that.

London.

For my birthday I headed to London for the first time. I've got to admit, it couldn't have come at a better time due to my Editorial module being on London. I tried out a few of the restaurants I chose for my content, and also headed to the Tate Modern to check out some beautiful pieces of artwork. Below are some photographs I took in the gallery.

As I used to live in Spain, a lot of our art modules were based around Spanish artists, including Salvador Dali. I'd never seen any of his pieces up close, only through a screen or what I had printed, so I was extremely fascinated to see his original artwork. The colours were much more vibrant than I ever thought. 

I also got to see Monet's Water Lilies, which I had actually studied in GCSE Art. It was incredibly stunning and much bigger than I ever imagined. 

There were a lot of photographs which caught my eye. There was something incredibly nostalgic in these images. 

Another of the fixtures was made up of light: the whole room was dark apart from these shining from one side. It was fascinating reading what these pieces meant, Dan Flavin's sculptures are quite controversial. 

I've never been a big Gallery visitor, and one of the only others I have visited is the Baltic. I did go to a few out in Spain but it was more of a "school day out" than anything else: but I was extremely intrigued here. I want to one day head to the Louvre. I think seeing all London has to offer has really helped me in terms of my Editorial piece, mainly as I actually know what it is I am talking about, and the feelings this big city gave me. I went with someone who was experienced in all things London, so a lot of the experience I actually had was quite similar to a local, and I understand now why others would want the same.