The document discusses the process of designing a layout for a fanzine about banning animal testing. The author experimented with different layouts, initially placing images far apart with text around them and a headline at the top. This looked too plain. The author then placed images across the middle of the page with the headline going through them, to make the headline more noticeable. Additional changes included adding a larger informational image and background color. The final design still needs improvements to make it more eye-catching for readers.

5.  I had quite a few ideas of what I wanted to do for the layout of the fanzine. I decided to make a few
different ones so I could get an idea of which one I wanted to base my layout upon. When I was looking
through different fanzines on the internet I saw that they were all set out differently but mostly on double
page spreads.
 I liked the idea of the double page spread as I thought it was more suitable to a fanzine article rather than
just one page of text. I wanted a double page spread so I could include lots of writing and text but I
wanted to change it up a bit and have things in different positions and not just a basic layout.
 I haven't decided completely on a layout but I want to go towards the second flat plan as I think that
layout is different compared to the things being in the normal place such as a headline at the top ill have
it in the middle.

7.  For my fanzine I am doing it based on the EU testing ban for animal testing. For my images I am thinking on
using these – they aren't extremely graphic but they are showing what is going on. I will obviously have
more images than this but I will add them in depending on my layout, I was thinking of having a few big
images and then some little ones with captions.
 The image in the middle I think is the best one, it is giving you an insight into what is going on without
actually showing you, it is really simplistic but it gets the message across.
 I most likely will have the images together in a row going across the page with the headline going through
it although I haven't completely decided on the position of the images yet.

8. These are the type of fonts I would like to use for
the fanzine. They are ‘showing’ fonts – they are
jagged and spikey so they can be used for horrific
events. I am doing my fanzine on the EU Testing
ban which is on animal testing and therefor I think
that these fonts would be perfect for the
headline.
I chose these two fonts as I just want
something simple for the text as I
want the main attraction to be on the
headline and the images and so these
fonts are very simplistic but they are
formal as well which I wanted them to
be.

16.  At first I was experimenting on what layout looked best, I decided to put the images far apart and have the
text around it and the headline at the top but I thought it was a bit too plain and the headline wasn’t
really that noticeable.
 I then decided to have my images going across the middle of the page as I thought that looked a lot better
than having them all spaced out as it didn’t really fit the page, I decided to put the headline through the
images as I wanted it to look noticeable – having images of animals and then a headline saying that animal
cruelty was banned through it so it gave a better impression.
 I thought that it still looked a bit plain and needed something more doing to it so I decided so include a
bigger image what included some facts about animal cruelty to make it a bit more interesting rather than
just having a lot of plain text and a few images.
 After that I thought it looked better but the background was plain so I just decided to give it a bit more
colour to make it look better and more complete.
 Overall I am happy with my final design but it could do with a bit of improvement – it just needs something
to make it more eye catching and appealing to the readers, I think it looks ok but not 100% professional it
just needs things doing to it to make it more eye catching like I say as when I look at it all I see is a lot of
text. I could have improved it by having small chunks of informative text in sections and image captions –
having it all spaced out rather than having it like a standard article.