3. EDITS:
• Cropped in from a mid-
shot to a close up
• Black and White filter
• Slightly sharpened
• Enlarged length-ways to
make his face slimmer to
make him look older
4. EDITS:
• Further sharpened
• Further cropped
• Increased contrast
• Highlighted areas where
light is prominent e.g.
lips, nose, left cheek,
white in eye
• Increased shadow areas
e.g. right side, eyes,
bridge of nose
• Increased shadow for
the letters on the hat
• Enlarged length-ways to
make his face longer (to
fit A4 double page)
6. I constructed two drafts because I had two initial ideas.
I used the Sepia filter for these images,
I used a header image as the top half of the DPS where
the body text is on the right page.
7. To maintain the serious tone of the theme,
the images on the right hand side of the dps
are also in black and white which support the
atmosphere.
I removed their background and added a
shadow to make them appear more dramatic.
I left the wooden border in the background
because it looks connects the photos to make
it look like one.
I put subtle gradients on the texts, it is most evident
in the “was” because I wanted to put emphasis on
the past tense which is also the reason why I made it
red and in a sans serif
font which I used for
the title; the same goes
for the word “not”
which I italicised.
8. I obtained some clip art images on google e.g.
the gun and a silhouette of peter pan and
used the remove background tool and the
transparent tool to get rid of the fill and
background.
I also got an iTunes icon off of the internet to promote the
artist’s music on a digital platform. Then using a black text box
and the same serif font as the large pulled quote, I wrote the
artist’s album and the award he was nominated for in a sans
serif font .
I played around with the textures and settled with the newsprint texture. I
then cropped one of my photos into a square and edited it using black and
white filter and by increasing the contrast. This is the album cover.
I drew a star using the draw tool and filled it
with a burgundy colour then I copied and pasted
them and positioned them into place.
Outcome
9. The Article
To gain inspiration I watched YouTube
interviews of rappers such as The Game and
Eminem. The language they used was
sophisticated although they fused it with an
urban flare. There is some profanity in the
article to emphasise the hip hop genre which
is quite raw.
For the first draft, the font I used was “Book
Antiqua”, it is a serif font and I thought it
matched the font I used for the pulled quote
(“Angsana New”).
Writing the
article:
10. I really had to fix the guttering and the easiest way to
do this was to use the justify tool on microsoft word
and by changing the serif font to a sans serif font. The
text surround the artist was also positioned closer to
decrease the amount of white space.
11. I changed the style of
the stand first and the
sub headline a few
times too.
The red on black
wasn’t as effective as
I had first thought so I
got rid of the black
text box (for the
questions and the
pulled quote too).
In the end I settled
for the font I used for
the front cover: “I fink
u freeky” for the
stand first.I also wrote another subheadline because the first one wasn’t snappy
enough.
I picked out several fonts I was already using
and just put them together. I also
experimented with the colourway. It looks
much more exciting.
