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Magazine Part 2

Early magazine Covers are drastically different from the kinds of magazines that we create now. The magazines contain a table of contents on the cover and are printed in black and white, unlike the ones we have now. The magazines didn't include information on what would be inside the magazine and they would have publication dates. The Poster Cover is a photograph cover that doesn't relate to anything inside the magazine yet its created to set a mood. They contain a little cover line that presents the theme. They only present such little information on the cover. In Pictures Married to Type the subject is mostly in front blocking a little bit of the cover title. They most likely did this to draw attention to the subject and avoid the cover lines. In Forest of Words all of the magazines mostly contained a couple short captions in front or on the side of the subject that are sometimes bigger than the title. In some of these covers there is literally no space on the magazine cover because they are full of the captions. 

My Favorite Cover

Photographer: Martin Schoeller

Designer: Arem Duplessis

- See more at: http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contest/past-winners-finalists/2014-winners-finalists#sthash.xqBovkox.dpuf"For this cover story on the U.S. women’s ski-jumping team, we featured the Olympic hopeful Sarah Hendrickson as photographed by Martin Schoeller. Schoeller captures the competitive spirit of Hendrickson, who wears her competition gear, in her body posture and intense gaze." - See more at: http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contest/past-winners-finalists/2014-winners-finalists#sthash.xqBovkox.dpuf

I think this is a really great magazine cover because of the way it draws attention to me. The color of the suit and the goggles she has on are vivid and the colors give the magazine pop. I like how simple the background is and how there wasn't any words popping out that would draw my attention away. The words "The Flight Risk" are in bold and are centered in a way that makes me quickly focus straight to it. I love how she isn't smiling because it gives the magazine cover a dramatic look. Overall this magazine cover is amazing.

Best Covers

1. Formal (New York)
2. Informal (Bloomberg Buisnessweek) 
3. Environmental (Secret Lives of Gems)
4. Environmental (Sports Illustrated)
5. Informal (Fight Issue) 
6. Formal (Flight Risk)
7. Informal (Runners World) 
8. Informal (Oprah's Hair) 
9. Formal (Brides)
10. Formal (The Art Issue)
11. Formal (Summer Fashion Issue) 
12. Formal (Spring Fashion)
13. Informal (The Fader) 
14. Environmental/ formal (Fix The World)
15. Formal (100 years)
16. Environmental (The Body Issue)
17. Informal (Beyonce)   

Magazine Tips

The 5 things that you should be thinking about when you design a magazine cover are:

• Emotionally irresistible.

• If the cover pops out from its background, don’t weaken it by fussing with it.

• Arousing Curiosity.

• Efficient, fast, easy to scan.

• If you are making a magazine out of paper it is best not to rely on it virtually.

American Solider

A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
I think that the most powerful picture was the first time Ian left and they (Ian's family) knew it was for real because it was a sad time and Ian's family and friends knew that he would be a long time before he comes home.

B. Through the photos, Ian is in different locations, each set of photos from the same location comprise a short series or set.  

Set #1 At home in Denver - Tell me which image #s from image #1 to image #7 
Set #2 At Basic Training - tell me which image #s from image #8? to image #29
Set #3 In Iraq - tell me which image #'s from image #50 to image #70 
Set #4 Back in Denver - tell me which image #s from image#71 to image #82

Which set of images was the most powerful? Why?

Home in Denver with his family because he only spent so little yet meaningful time with them.

C. How do the images work together to tell a story?
They all work together because they all give into the emotion of hime leaving.
3. Underneath each photo is the caption that ran in the Denver Post

A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written? They are written in present tense. 

For those of you who have forgotten your verb tenses see the example below.

Present Tense: John jumps down the stairs.
Past Tense: John jumped down the stairs.

B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?
I feel like the captions enhance the photographs from the emotion written in the captions.
4. Now its your turn to write a few captions - DO NOT COPY THEIR WRITING

A. Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.

Ian and Jacob, one friends that he met when he was in training, collected a shirt from a clerk. Ian got a bloody nose from the clerk throwing the shirt to hard.

Ian was hugging Devin (his girl friend) after he was finished with his efforts in Iraq. The happy couple got married soon after.

First sentence:
Subject -- action verb (present tense) -- object -- how -- why -- when -- where.

Second sentence:
Subject -- verb (past tense) -- object (describes background [context] of the situation shown in picture.)

Example:

Image #2

Ian studies his transcript and diploma as he departs the Bear Creek High School commencement at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. He dismisses the importance of the ceremony but not of the diploma. "If I didn't get my diploma, I couldn't join the Army. I couldn't do anything like that - and where would I be?" Looking back, he said, "I wish it went by a lot slower and I did a lot of things differently - grades." Ian's grade-point average was 2.0346.

Rules of Photography Part 2

BACKGROUND 

BALANCE

CREATE DEPTH

CROPPING

FRAMING

LEADING LINES

MERGERS

RULE OF THIRDS

SYMMETRY 

VIEW POINT