Success, it turns out that I'm not a total retard when it comes to Quark. Here's the work in progress of my Urban Exploration article. I've taken the style from Vice magazine (and its not quite A4 page size), looks like I'll fit a decent amount of text into this bad boy. Just have to finish the words off and it's go, go, go.
Page 1 & 2 Layout - I'll get on to the rest of the pages when I get a minute.
Oh yeah, I'll scan a copy of Vice for reference and get hold of BRAD to tell us about their audience (young, middle/working class, male and female, affluent/skint).
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Monotonous Fun
I've just spent the last hour formatting all my images for print.
Open -> Image -> Mode -> CMYK
Image -> Image Size -> 300 dpi, change size of image to about 600kb -> Save As...
Fortunately I've been playing some poker to keep myself from entering a dribbling coma, and I seem to be coming out in profit. If only I could write and play. No, must write. Got all summer to become a millionaire online [sic].
(Added 04:13)- just about to fire up Quark for some more layouts. This post is post the last post. Just realised that OMM, like Vice is not quite A4, thought it'd be worth mentioning for extra effort and credit ;)
Open -> Image -> Mode -> CMYK
Image -> Image Size -> 300 dpi, change size of image to about 600kb -> Save As...
Fortunately I've been playing some poker to keep myself from entering a dribbling coma, and I seem to be coming out in profit. If only I could write and play. No, must write. Got all summer to become a millionaire online [sic].
(Added 04:13)- just about to fire up Quark for some more layouts. This post is post the last post. Just realised that OMM, like Vice is not quite A4, thought it'd be worth mentioning for extra effort and credit ;)
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Extra info for music feature
I've decided to go for an Observer Music Monthly type approach to this feature. A sort of: while English folk music is dead, the English are taking Eastern European folk music back to E Europe.
This also means that I can layout the article in glorious A4, meaning a bit more room to play with (as opposed to the Stranger A5 angle). Woop!
I also think it's best to point out the obvious stuff (so obvious I've had to force myself to write it down and not take it as a given): audiences. The ABC website is a piece of crap, so I'll have to go and check BRAD for OMM's figures, but as a rough guess, I'd say that they're ABC1s 20-50 yr old males and females. I'll update this proper stats when I get my can to college.
This also means that I can layout the article in glorious A4, meaning a bit more room to play with (as opposed to the Stranger A5 angle). Woop!
I also think it's best to point out the obvious stuff (so obvious I've had to force myself to write it down and not take it as a given): audiences. The ABC website is a piece of crap, so I'll have to go and check BRAD for OMM's figures, but as a rough guess, I'd say that they're ABC1s 20-50 yr old males and females. I'll update this proper stats when I get my can to college.
Monday, 12 May 2008
Copyright issues
The Front article takes images from i-stock (www.istockphoto.com), so I've had a look on there for inspiration for my piece. The only problem is that it requires an account to be opened (not a problem), but payments (in cash form, quite a problem) to use people's pictures are required. Arse.
My thinking of a way around this is thus: I get someone to take a picture of me playing the guitar and then photoshop it so it looks a bit funky (like the Front image). Copyright problem solved. That or I'll try and use one of these stock photo sites that I've just Googled.
My thinking of a way around this is thus: I get someone to take a picture of me playing the guitar and then photoshop it so it looks a bit funky (like the Front image). Copyright problem solved. That or I'll try and use one of these stock photo sites that I've just Googled.
Ripping off Front
They say that copying someone's work is the height of flattery. So Front should know that I'm going to flatter their arses off.
I'm doing the Secret Language of the Busker piece and this is what I'm aiming to make it look like. 'Aiming' being the operative word there.
Quick Bitch
I'll keep this short as I'm on a tight schedule. I just want to point out that despite my complete lack of a visual brain (I think in words and numbers, unless I'm thinking of women of course), I am going to layout my articles (some if not all, maybe, we'll see). This will essentially be an exercise in me trying something I'm terrible at. So apologise in advance for some retarded looking layouts.
It's not that I don't know what a good layout looks like, it's just that I can't create one on my head and then get it on to the screen. There's a void in whatever cortex controls those thoughts. You know, I do pick up magazines (like the free ones) and bitch about how terrible they look. That's because they're designed by people like me. Is this an excuse? Possibly, we'll see what the end result looks like. But you don't see illustration students having to display their work in sculpture, do you?
It's not that I don't know what a good layout looks like, it's just that I can't create one on my head and then get it on to the screen. There's a void in whatever cortex controls those thoughts. You know, I do pick up magazines (like the free ones) and bitch about how terrible they look. That's because they're designed by people like me. Is this an excuse? Possibly, we'll see what the end result looks like. But you don't see illustration students having to display their work in sculpture, do you?
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
more ideas
Well, one more idea. I might get around to writing something in a minute.
Front has a regular feature called 'The Secret Language of...' (I'll scan a picture of it and upload it when I'm in college next). It's about 500 words of comedy basically. I'm going to write a secret language of the busker. Having been a busker before I think I can add a little insight to the piece as well as a bit of venom, vitriol and humour.
Front has a regular feature called 'The Secret Language of...' (I'll scan a picture of it and upload it when I'm in college next). It's about 500 words of comedy basically. I'm going to write a secret language of the busker. Having been a busker before I think I can add a little insight to the piece as well as a bit of venom, vitriol and humour.
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