Overview: We need to review some of the best magazine covers of the last year and the essential parts of a magazine cover before we begin to design your own.
Directions: This assignment consists of two blog posts.
Blog #1 - Magazine Essential Parts
After you shoot your portrait, you will use it as the central element of a mock magazine cover design that will occupy a page of your InDesign document.
To get this process started, you need to learn a little about magazine cover design.
Go to the link below:
Step 1: List the parts of a Magazine Cover labeled on the image.
Step 2: In your own words summarize what each of these 9 parts does.
Blog #2 - Best magazine covers of 2013 and the last 40 Years
Next, go here and look at some great designs:
or go to the link below to see the top 40 Magazine Covers of the last 40 years.
http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contests/asmes-top-40-magazine-covers-last-40-years
Blog #2 -- My Favorite Cover
Choose your favorite cover (with a portrait). Label it as "favorite."
Post an image of your favorite.
Copy and paste the description from the web.
Write a 50-100 word critique of the portrait on the cover.
Mention what is communicated about the people in the portrait and how this is communicated.
You may consider composition, lighting, exposure, and cover lines
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