Monday, 4 February 2013
Newsletter Analysis
This is my analysis of the deyes high school newsletter from Jan 13th 2013. I will list the issues i found with this newslettert and mention some ways I fewel i could improve them.
To improve the Deyes High School Newsletter I will have to target a specific demographic. The newsletter is not clear about who it is targetting:
There are parts that appear to be aimed at governners.
There are Areas supposedly aimed at students, but these are only aimed at students who chose particular subjects.
There is a section aimed at young children, the numeracy tips this section offers are not dissimilar to those taught in a year 4 maths lesson. Also the addition of a popular childrens character, Mickey Mouse. The changing, bright colour sceme is also something you would associate with younger children.
One section is a puzzle section, this is stereo-typically a section aimed at students and pentioners.
I will also need to think about the type of imagry to use. The imagry i choose to use will determine the type of school readers are invisionning, an image of an older building will present the idea that the school is: old, traditional, ect.
An image of a newer building will give an impression of a: new, modern, up-to-date. school.
I will most likely change the font being used aswell. Comic Sants, seems to frar to informal to be used in an official school's newsletter. A font like Times New Roman, would be more apropriate. To the find the most suitable font, i will search websites like dafont.com, so that i have a broarder range of fonts to choose from.
From the fonts i have found so far, these are the opnes I think would be most suitable:
Font Name Website
Tomsk DaFont.com
Pinophyta DaFont.com
KB Just My Type DaFont.com
TwentyTwelve Slab DaFont.com
Truebo Serif DaFont.com
Circlesd and Sticks DaFont.com
Argocksaz DaFont.com
I will also consider changing the colour sceme, the current one is bright and uses a variety of vibrant colours. This sceme seems too childish for a high school newsletter, in my opinion, For this reason i will choose darker colours, to show a more serious school, when producing my own version of the newsletter. The front page of the current newsletter has 6 different colours, this makes it look overloaded, messy and thrown together.To prevent this occuring in my version, I will try and minimize the number of colours used on each page.
To improve the Deyes High School Newsletter I will have to target a specific demographic. The newsletter is not clear about who it is targetting:
There are parts that appear to be aimed at governners.
There are Areas supposedly aimed at students, but these are only aimed at students who chose particular subjects.
There is a section aimed at young children, the numeracy tips this section offers are not dissimilar to those taught in a year 4 maths lesson. Also the addition of a popular childrens character, Mickey Mouse. The changing, bright colour sceme is also something you would associate with younger children.
One section is a puzzle section, this is stereo-typically a section aimed at students and pentioners.
I will also need to think about the type of imagry to use. The imagry i choose to use will determine the type of school readers are invisionning, an image of an older building will present the idea that the school is: old, traditional, ect.
An image of a newer building will give an impression of a: new, modern, up-to-date. school.
I will most likely change the font being used aswell. Comic Sants, seems to frar to informal to be used in an official school's newsletter. A font like Times New Roman, would be more apropriate. To the find the most suitable font, i will search websites like dafont.com, so that i have a broarder range of fonts to choose from.
From the fonts i have found so far, these are the opnes I think would be most suitable:
Font Name Website
Tomsk DaFont.com
Pinophyta DaFont.com
KB Just My Type DaFont.com
TwentyTwelve Slab DaFont.com
Truebo Serif DaFont.com
Circlesd and Sticks DaFont.com
Argocksaz DaFont.com
I will also consider changing the colour sceme, the current one is bright and uses a variety of vibrant colours. This sceme seems too childish for a high school newsletter, in my opinion, For this reason i will choose darker colours, to show a more serious school, when producing my own version of the newsletter. The front page of the current newsletter has 6 different colours, this makes it look overloaded, messy and thrown together.To prevent this occuring in my version, I will try and minimize the number of colours used on each page.
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Contents Page #1 GameMasters:
This my template for a magazine contents page. It is the contents page for GameMasters for Dec 2012.
THE IMAGE WILL BE UPLOADED ASAP, THE BLOGGER APP ON THIS PHONE IS GARBAGE AND DOESN'T ADD PHOTOS =/
THE IMAGE WILL BE UPLOADED ASAP, THE BLOGGER APP ON THIS PHONE IS GARBAGE AND DOESN'T ADD PHOTOS =/
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Magazine Layout #1: Empire Magazine - DEC 2012
This is my Sketch\Layout for the front cover of a copy of Empire Magazine, The Copy was first released in December 2012. The sketch includes measurements of all segments of the actual magazine cover [scale 1:1]. This is so I can compare the sizes of various front cover elements in to make my front cover seem more legitimate.
Monday, 14 January 2013
Coursework Brief: Music Magazine
My name is James Foulkes. From now on, this blog will be were I post my progress as I proceed through this coursework.
The task is to produce:
-A front cover
-A contents page
& a double page spread, for a music magazine.
The task is to produce:
-A front cover
-A contents page
& a double page spread, for a music magazine.
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