Start Creating Your Magazine Cover

1. look back over your magazine design blog posts, and browse other people's posts to remind yourself of what a good magazine cover looks like.

2. Open your InDesign document.

3. Add a page after the yearbook layout and before the glossary, design the template for a magazine cover. It must include the following:

A. Magazine name
Think carefully about the font you use
You may use the name of a real magazine or make up your own

B. A teaser / cover line (headline type description) for the main story. Remember that you will be placing your portrait into the cover next week. If you choose to do a poster style cover, you may remove this later.

C.
If you choose to make a "picture married to type" or a "forrest of words" type cover, create the following:
At least two teasers (Cover lines) for secondary stories. (Be creative)

If you are creating a poster, you do not have to create additional cover lines.

D. Pricing and date information. (Inserting a bar code is extra credit)

Magazine Cover Preview

This assignment consists of two blog posts.

After you shoot your portrait, you will use it as the central element of a mock magazine cover design that will occupy a page of your InDesign document.

To get this process started, you need to learn a little about magazine cover design.First, go here and read the history of design article:http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/Testfolder/

Copy and paste the following into a post titled: "Cover History"

Cover types
1. Early Magazine Covers
2. The Poster Cover
3. Pictures Married to Type
4. In the Forest of Words

In your post, write a short (50-150 word) explanation of what the main attributes of each of the four types are. Use your own words, and DO NOT copy and paste.

Next, go here and look at some great designs:
http://www.magazine.org/Editorial/Top_40_Covers/

Look at and read about ALL 40 designs.Make a new post titled : "Best Covers"
List the numbers of every cover that features a PORTRAIT.
Next to each number, write "Formal, Informal, or Environmental"
Choose your favorite cover. Label it as "favorite."
Copy and paste the description from the web. Write a 50-100 word critique of the portrait on the cover.
Mention what is communicated about the people in the portrait and how this is communicated. You may consider composition, lighting, exposure etc.

Add practice photos to your practice layout - Quiz Grade

1. Choose a theme / topic for your practice layout (The one we did together) Type the name of that theme into your headline space.
2. Do a google image search for photos that relate to that theme. Save the images, crop them to the correct size to fit your layout, and File>Place them into your InDesign yearbook layout.
3. Write funny captions.
4. Print your layout.

Have fun with this, but keep it appropriate. This is a quiz grade.


Tips:

•Saving an image from the internet
–Choose a large image (at least 100k)
–Right click on image, and select “save image as”
–View the largest version (not a thumbnail)
•Cropping images
–Open the image in PhotoShop
–Set the size in the cropping tool in picas (p)
–Drag your crop
–Save your cropped image
•Placing images in InDesign
–Select File>Place
–Select your cropped image file, click to place it
•Writing captions
–Follow 2 sentence caption writing rules (look at Nov. 13 blog post)

Transferring your yearbook layout to your final exam document

In InDesign, open BOTH your final exam file, and your original (NOT your practice) yearbook layout.

Add two pages to your final exam file so you have two empty facing pages (spread) before your glossary. Use Layout > Pages > Insert Pages.

Click anywhere in your yearbook layout and hit "Ctrl + A" to select everything. Hit "Ctrl + C" to copy everything.

Back in your Final exam document, click anywhere in the first blank page that you just created. Select "Edit > Paste in Place."

Save your work. All future work on your yearbook spread should be done in the final exam document that is saved on the server.

Get some portrait ideas

There is an assignment at the end of this post

Consider doing a self portrait:

Read the contest flier for the ATPI contest.
View some past winners by clicking here and clicking on the results from 2001-2004 at the bottom of the page.

If you are going to shoot someone else, look at the work of these legendary portrait photographers:

Arnold Newman
Annie Leibovits
Mark Seliger
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Assignment
Post you favorite self or regular portrait on your blog, and explain wht makes it a good photo. Be specific. What do you want to emulate in your portraits?

Transfer your files to the new server

ALL FILES STORED ON INDIVIDUAL COMPUTERS WILL BE ERASED!
Transfer your files to the new publications server now!
Save everything to the server from now on


How:

Open "My Computer"
Open the "T:jstudents" drive
Open the "photojournalism" folder
Open your period's folder
Go to File>New>Folder
Name the folder your name in the following format "last_first"
Drag ALL of your files and folders from any computer into this folder

ANY FILES LEFT ON THE LOCAL COMPUTER WILL BE ERASED SOON!

The color shoot

Color Shoot
The perfect role of film

On your Blog

Plan your shoot - post what you plan on shooting and when you will shoot. Note if you need a camera

You will be provided one roll of film with 12 shots on it, and we will process this roll for you. Your goal is to perfectly shoot the following.

You will lose two points for:
Every shot that is out of focus
Every shot that does not fill the frame
Every shot that is not part of the assignment
Every shot that is not properly exposed

Take your time, and do it right!

What to Shoot

Content

• At least three portrait shots – Another person or a self-portrait
• At least six candid shot – Capture real moments. These may be for your end of year photo essay, or they be of any event you choose (Remember to get close, capture emotion or action, and focus!)
• Three shots of your choice – you may shoot more portraits or candids. Regardless of what you shoot, they MUST be in focus and well composed.
  
  Techniques
• All photos must follow the three photojournalism rules (except portraits may be posed)
• At least three of the photos must be clear examples advanced composition techniques (framing, repetition, leading lines, rule of thirds, simplicity, balance etc.)
• (Click Here for Lighting PowerPoint)
• Two of the photos must have soft lighting
• At least one photo must have hard light
• One photo must be back-lit (silhouette or rim lighting)
• At least one photo must be shot indoors
• At least one photo must be shot outside
  
  How and when will I shoot this?
• If you have your own camera, you will receive a roll of film starting 1/14
• If you need to borrow a camera, you may sign them out starting 1/ 14.
• You may only sign out cameras for 24 hours at a time.
• If you reserve a camera and do not pick it up, you will lose 10 points on your shoot grade.
• If you do not return the camera on time, you will lose 10 points per day that it is late.
  
  All film must be turned in by Feb. 1
• You may buy and process your own film if you want to shoot more than the twelve shots provided
  
  
  
  
  

Making your own Layout

On a rough draft sheet, make an original design with the following qualities:

Clear Eyeline
Consistent 1 pica internal spacing
Dominant photo
4-7 photos total
All photos grouped toward center
space for a caption next to every photo
space for a story with a main headline and a secondary headline

After you draw it, show it to the teacher for approval, and then tranfer it to InDesign

Setting up InDesign to match the rough draft sheets

• Open InDesign
• Go to Edit > Preferences > Units and Incriments, and change the Horizontal and vertical units to picas
• Go to File > New, and make a document with the following settings
• Number of pages - 3
• Colums - 3
• Gutter - 1
• Margins - Top -3, Inside - 1, Bottom- 5, Outside - 3
  Go to View > Grids and Guides, and Check "Show Document Grid"
• Go to Edit > Preferences > Grids, and set the Horizontal and vertical settings (Gridline every and subdivisions) to 1
  Place your cursor in the upper left corner where the rullers come together, and click and drag the zero point to the top of the page at the gutter