Layout ideas

While Stephanie was doing the editing we decided as a group we wanted to try out a few different layout ideas, for example a landscpae image over one page, or DPS and adding more than more image to a page. We decided we could only do this once the final images are edited, so we could what they looked like together and then play around and make changes to the layout. Stephanie emailed over the different layouts she had tried with all the inspiration from magazines we had discussed as a  group and on the meeting i had with her to look through the images.

Below are the different layouts and font styles are tried for our editorial.

 This is my favourite layout style, I didn't feel the images were strong enough to make a DPS, therefore we needed each outfit to make up the 8 page editorial.The first image that was chosen was landscape, but i think having that contrast at the beginning works well. The image as i said wasn't strong enough i don't think to have as a DPS, i think Stephanie, Nikita and Sophie agreed once the editorial was put together.

 This was the first mock up for the title page. I think the white background is a nice contrast as the images are quite intense. Its nice and simple with just are name credits at the bottom. we also quite liked this font, its more creative than a simple than Times New Roman.

 This was the other layout Stephanie tried. Stephanie and Nikita wanted to get rid of outfit 4, but because we had styled it so the middle outfits (outfit 4) had some pattern and plain garments, which would lead us through the transition to plainer garments they couldn't really take it out the sequence. It wouldn't make sense as an editorial, styling wise to do that. Outfit 4 is probably the weakest image, and we stuggled to find out that everyone liked, but i said it wouldn't make sense in the styling to take it out.

This is the final layout we decided on as a group. We wanted the images to have a small border around them, it looks professional and because the images are quite intense it breaks them down and make you stop to look at them as they don't bleed out to the edges. The white border against the intense soptlight lighting i think works well on the eye aswell. Some of the borders towards the end become larger, i think this is because Stephanie didn't size them onto an A3 page before she cropped them and made the borders. It would be good to have them all the same size, but it does work well with our theme, its as if the person is becoming smaller and idea of losing their creativeness through education has become greater than them.