November is here and with that, another project. This time around, I spent the last two classes working in Adobe InDesign to create my very own magazine cover using conventions taught to me in class. In today's post, I will be explaining the creation process of the cover, and all of the changes I made before and during it.
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Learning InDesign did not take as long as it did for me to learn Premier Pro, as both shared common features seen in programs that I utilize for my personal use. For my magazine's masthead, I wanted to use a font outside of those built into within InDesign, and when looking through the provided videos covering the software, none explained how to upload fonts onto InDesign. So, I went on the web and eventually found a step-by-step video explaining how adding a font can be done.
Before working on the actual cover, I had thought up two different genres that are not seen often in magazines that I would base mine off of, those being an art magazine and a pet magazine; however, deciding which of the two I would use proved challenging. Alongside these genres I wrote down mastheads and feature article titles for each, so that I would not have to worry about creating them while working on the final product. The titles I came up for the art magazine sounded better to me, because I connected them to my personal experiences in drawing, but I had the perfect picture of my dog to utilize if I went for the pet approach. As can be seen from the image above, I decided to make my genre about pets, making the cover image a picture I took of my dog when she was still a puppy.
To reflect this pet genre, I gave the masthead the fitting name "Bark Market", including a silhouette of a paw print to further sell the theme I was going for.
Other conventions used in my magazine cover include the title of the feature article, which I titled "Dog Dais(y)", a play of words using my dog's name. I included three coverlines towards the right of the cover, discussing other potential articles which would be included within the magazine, they also help to convey the pet genre. A puff was included to provide contrast from the coverlines, I used this convention as an opportunity to connect it to the main article. Some smaller conventions I added was a dateline and a barcode, which both created a sense of authenticity to the cover.
Most of the challenges I faced while making this mostly had to do with the design and placement of all the conventions within the frame. At first, I was given a lot of room to experiment with the placement of the coverlines, but I then realized that the color of my dog's hair in the image contrasted greatly with the grass. This meant that I would have to include text of contrasting colors in both areas of the image, leaving me to include all the coverlines along the side where my dog was, and the puff in the grassy area, just to keep things consistent and neat. With the puff specifically, I initially made it a boxout, but realizing that it covered too much of my dog's face, I decided to go with an outlined circle that can be seen in the final product above to both fit in the frame while still not obstructing my dog completely.
My biggest success had to have been with the masthead, where I utilized the uploaded font and pawprint png to create something that I thought stood out to the rest of the text featured in the cover.
Using what I learned, I would definitely use what I learned with the fonts and the general layout of InDesign to create my magazine if I ever decide to make that my product. Having learned this would help my potential magazine's layout stand out from others. Additionally, adapting to the software would make the creation process significantly faster, as I feel it would only be a matter of looks that would take up most of my creation time.
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Here is the final result of my magazine cover (without the InDesign workspace)!
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Once again, that is all I have to show for the time being, see you again once I complete another project!
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