Excercise 2

My magazine layout is giving me the most trouble out of all the exercises and projects that we have done so far this semester! I do not know why but it just seems like everything I do is too simple? I look to my fellow classmates and see what they are doing and I say to myself “Why didn’t I think of that?” Maybe because I’ve never really looked at a magazine layout and how everything flows. Maybe it’s because I am not very imaginative when it comes to magazine layouts. Whatever that causes may be I do not like this one bit!

During class, I am happy that I expressed my unhappiness with Amy! She was not only able to give me input about my progress but she was able to put it up on the big screen and everyone in class was able to give me their input. Other then the kerning and spacing of my layout, I am very appreciative to everyone that was able to critique my work. I definitely will take everyone’s input into consideration when finishing up my project!

So for the next class, which is the last work day for this exercise I am going to try to incorporate the feedback I got from Amy and my fellow classmates. I am going to work on making the title stick out more. Some ideas for that, 1) I am going to make the picture bigger and by doing that I will make the title part of the picture with white letters. I am also going to make the title bigger!! Hopefully with the dark back ground and white letters and the colorful “color” will make the title stand out more and not get lost in the picture. 2) I am going to work on the spacing with columns. Once Amy helped my move the spacing of the columns over it made the whole column flow better and easier to read!

I also read the article in the last class and possibly stick to certain colors since the article talked about what each color means since my first approach of placing random pictures in the article didn’t really flow very well! Hopefully after spring break I will be able to quickly finish my article layout so I can move on from this excercise!! Yayyy