Tuesday, 22 October 2013

My Image Ideas...

From my previous blog posts I have made clear that my adverts are all going to include my own images taken my me.

My first 3 adverts are on the front cover of my newspaper. One of then is my fashion advert.
For this advert I wish to advertise a local fashion boutique for women and girls. Tomorrow I will be taking my images for this advert and I will be using my little sister as my model. Here are some idea's I have found and just show some guideline as to what I would like my advert to look like.

I have collected some images that are slightly what I would like mine to be like but not quite the same:

This advert is ideal, although as my advert is going to be vertical in comparison to this one I am only going to have one image of my model. With the name of the boutique also on the advert and some small print text consisting of where the store is and the web address.  


This is what I want my advert to look like just with a slightly more suitable image of my model advertising stylish and sophisticated children's clothing. 

I have also collected some images with different clothing ideas that I like:


 I like what this model is wearing and would like mine to wear something similar. As it is winter I have decided that my model will either be wearing leggings or jeans with a nice either oversized or cosy jumper concluding the outfit with some nice winter boots and a winter coat. I have also been thinking about advertising a percentage off of the clothing at this boutique. I think this would be more suitable for my newspaper as it is advertising money saving and also cheap but nice clothing for children. This advert will be most suitable to my 'family' audience or grandparents with younger grand children. 


This outfit is along the lines as to what I would like my model to be wearing. And I will also be having a plain white background for my images and advert.
  
My second advert on my front cover is a Window Cleaner advert. For this advert my original idea is to take an picture of a window close up for the background of the advert and then add text and watermarks on top. I am going to make this advert and see if it looks good and fits in suitably with the rest of my newspaper cover. 

Finally the third advert that is on the front cover of my newspaper is going to be my estate agents advert. My plans for this advert is to go to the local marina and collect some pictures of the colourful houses along the water front down there. I am going down today to collect my pictures then from there I will go on to create my adverts. As this advert is horizontal I plan to have a row of house running along the top of the advert with the company name and logo underneath and slightly to the right hand side. Also underneath the name and logo I am going to have the address of the local estate agents and contact details, such as e-mail and phone number.

The first story of my newspaper which is on the front cover is about the Gordano School RAG fair. For this the image to go with my story is of students at the RAG fair in their fancy dress costumes raising money for charity. As it as the RAG fair today I will be collecting my images to go along with this story. 
Want my pictures to look something along these lines:



The second story in my newspaper is at the top of the inside page. This story is about the new Mezze restaurant opening on Portishead High Street. For this story I am just going to take a few pictures of the new restaurant and see which one I think looks the best to go with my story.
Something like this but my own images:


Last of all the last image I will need for my newspaper is for my 2 for One meals advert for the Albion pub. For this I am going to take a picture of a nice meal with a drink. I plan to do this on Friday when I go out for dinner. On this advert I will add the image and pub name and also the deal that is on offer.
Here are some similar adverts as to what I would like mine to look like:



Monday, 21 October 2013

First Draft Newspaper Cover Design...

I recreated the first draft of my newspaper cover in the software on the school computer's; InDesign. When I had finished it but again not yet got my images or adverts on there I showed the first draft to my teacher and peers for feedback. The feedback I got was positive but my teacher did say to me that he was unsure on the layout.


So from the feedback I got I rearranged the layout of my cover. I decided to move the adverts to the right hand side of the page rather than on the left,  so just done a straight swap with the story and image. I also rearranged the text of my story into three columns as I thought just having two made each one look a little too thick.   


Thursday, 17 October 2013

First Draft Newspaper Cover Design...

I have created a draft design for what I would like the front cover of my newspaper to look like. Because I have not collected all of my images for my newspaper the draft doesn't have the images to go with the stories or any of my adverts, but this week I will be taking all of my pictures and putting them into my first draft design to see what it all looks like together. I have created my draft cover on a software I have on my laptop at home called Pixelmator, therefore I think I may have created myself a problem as I don't think the dimensions are correct for a tabloid newspaper. Despite this I plan to just create another version of my cover on the software we have at school; In Design and just put all of my written stories and my images into this version of my cover.

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Front Cover Plugs

I have created my first two adverts for the front cover of my newspaper. The adverts that I have made are the plugs  that are at the top of my cover. These are used to attract my audience's attention and persuade them to read the newspaper.

My first plug is advertising a chance to win an iPad mini. Both of my plugs are aimed at my middle aged audience with families.


My second plug again is more for my middle aged audience with the families. It is an advert advertising a chance to win Bristol Zoo tickets.


I created both of my first two adverts with the a software called Pixelmator. I will create the rest of my adverts for my magazine when I have gathered the rest of my photo's.