Finished newspaper cover

This is my final design for the front cover of my newspaper. I think that overall it look good, might be better if I had put a few adverts on it just to make it more realistic. I think the colours I have used work okay in each image and as a whole. The main thing that I struggled with was the type, fitting it into the boxes. I managed to get it all to fit by tweaking small parts. I took some of the colour out of the background as well, I thought it was overpowering, it looks much better as it is now.

Newspaper Cover Evaluation; Session 2

For this session we now have to use the three colours, from the paintings that we did yesterday, to transfer the digital imagery into tritones. It defiantly needs a lot of work doing to it. I don't think that the background colour works very well, I think that It would look better if the colour wasn't as strong as it detracts from the images in the articles. I think that there need to be more contrast with some of the pictures also as you loose some of the detail in them. I need to make room within each of the article spaces for the headlines as well, which I haven't done at the moment.

I think I am going in the right direction with is all though. I have made the whole thing slightly wider as well so that everything would fit in it better, I think that this is the final template that I will slick with.

Newspaper Cover Evaluation

This is my newspaper front cover after the first week of doing it. Obviously its only the very basic start to this project for me to build on next week.

Overall I think that the layout works well, its just a case of dropping all my pictures and text into the boxes to see where they would work best. I think the background colour needs changing slightly, having a little more of a brown tone to it. I think I should lay the back ground image over the whole of the piece as well so that the whole cover looks a bit more realistic. I also have the life drawing piece that we did today to slot into it somewhere so might have to rejig or take something out of the layout. I will also have to change images to tritones as that is what we have now been told to do to restrict us a bit more.

A Rake's Progress theatre poster

Within our graphics lessons we have now got to create a poster to advertise a performance of A Rake's Progress. I did some initial research into different poster designs, I came across the image below whilst having a general look through them all.  

I like the fact that this is just a really simple poster, it has the relevant information on it and is not to crowded with imagery. For my first attempt at creating a poster I used this simple layout to help me. 

This is where I am up to at the moment with creating a design. The images are not entirely relevant, they are just place holders until I create images that would work better. Overall though I like the layout of this poster I think it just needs slightly more information on it, such as where to buy tickets from or the main actors/ actresses in it. 

Image manipulation

I have struggled with these sessions, firstly with which image/ advert to choose and then what to actually change or write on the image to change it. Graphics has never really been my strong point but I have given it a good go.
This is the first image that I have done:

This is what the image originally look like:

The idea was to subtly change the image so I tried something that people may not think was not right when they first looked at it but would realise a bit after. I played about with apple and android as apple were the first to start with the developments in technology but no android have started to catch them up and rival their products.

This is the second image that I have done:

This is how the original one looked:

When looking at these the differences probably aren't even noticeable until you look at the images for a while. The two things that I have changed on the image are the price of the fuel and the number plate of the car. These now show what petrol prices will be in the year of 2042 if prices keep going up as they are. 

These are the best pieces of work that I have done in graphics but I gave what we had to do a good go and don't think that the outcomes were to bad.