It was difficult to establish where to start when making something I haven’t had experience with at all. This is because it is software that I haven’t previously used. To help me get the hang of the program (InDesign CS6) I watched beginners tutorials on YouTube which helped me find the basic tools and from there I generally didn’t need to look up much more. Also, I asked my teacher to teach me the basic skills for starting and completing the magazine review page before I began the process. I started by inserting the pictures I wanted into the double spread page, by creating a box for placing the pictures into, this is so I can the work around it. The placing box can be used so you can move the image within the desired area you want it too.
It wasn’t as easy as I expected when, in my mind, the simple things e.g. page numbers. I want to have the professional look seen in other magazines that I researched into. Following this therefore, I tried to ascribe a similar design with graphics. I separated the page number and the text with a thick black line to add a graphic element and changed the colour of the magazine title to blue and black as shown above. I had to make up the name of the magazine because I didn’t want to make it for an existing magazine as this would mean I would have to get the layout and graphic elements just right. To choose the font and colours I used the system as trial and error, to get it the way I want it to. I found that there is usually a dominant picture, which is a lot larger than the rest and usually has the title under it, so I put down my focal picture and worked around that. The focal picture that I chose was with both the characters so they can get familiar with the characters before they watch it. I added the title onto the white background with the same text font as my poster to have a correlation effect in relation with my franchise for the movie, as this seems to be the convention. Next I moved onto the ‘background’ text box which includes bits of essential information about the film, this is an important part of the review page as it is usually what the viewer reads first to decide whether they want to continue onto the main article. I kept a simple blue line design as I don’t want it to distract from the information, I used a bold blue font (matching colour scheme) for the standard words such as, ‘Duration time’, ‘Actors’ etc. and then did the answer in a simple black font (times new roman).
I added the text before arranging the pictures on the right hand page because I didn’t know how much room I would require. It was complicated trying to put my text into columns because I had already written it so I had to make different text boxes and copy and paste the text in each one separately, getting the correct amount of writing in each one so it flowed. After a good few hours I had done the text and I was ready to fit my secondary pictures onto the right page. Next, I then added the 'look closer' aspect to my main focal image on the first page, now I know where everything is going.I was both fortunate and unfortunate with the way my text had filled the page, there was room enough for me to include a verdict box at the bottom of the first page. For my verdict box I used the bold font that I had used for the magazines main font and the tone of blue which I used through out the page. I added some simple lines to separate it from the main text and after the small box of type I included a star rating from a star font. I then included the quote in the centre of the article on the first page, for the text to wrap around it, as this looked professional and 'broke up' the main body of text. Having put these finishing touches in place I was done, I then had a lot of extra space underneath (bottom left) of the rest of the text on the 2nd page, therefore I spent my time creating the interest chart in Indesign. This took several hours, however many magazines have used this, and from this, I thought it looked very professional.
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