CCR POST

   #1 How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

#2 How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

#3 How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

#4  How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

FINAL BRIEF

 

Page Layouts

After writing a good chunk of my feature article I began editing the spreads to see how the font and sizing would be placed, whilst editing my article in InDesign itself. For the first spread I wanted one image to take up the size of the left page while the right page had the header of the article alongside with a little image in the corner. 

After finishing editing the  first spread I went onto the second.

I wanted two images to be incorporated with the contents below.

 After placing those images I played with the different font sizes of the characters.

After I established that I had completed my brief.

Writing the feature article.

 I wanted a simple timeline of the evolution for Gingerbread man.

I began my research by watching factual brief history Youtube videos and checking the links within the description to see what articles they used to write the video. 

This was the initial video I watched and used the articles she used for my article.

This was the main article I derived most of my information from.

As I began writing the introduction and body I wanted to copy and paste why I had into InDesign so I can adjust the font and sizing accordingly.

Production- Cookie frosting and photoshoot

 With my feature article being about the history of gingerbread, I needed to frost and take images of gingerbread men.

I frosted a multitude of characters, Christmas related or not to show the variety of gingerbread men.

After getting a wide cast of bright characters I started to play around with images I wanted in my final page layouts.

Like most food magazines I incorporated a good amount of close up shots to appeal to the senses of the reader.

I took mid-shots

And my personal favorite, the integration of Gingerbread design and human actions in the picture to tell a story.

Production-Puff drawing for advertisement

 After drawing over the image for my ad, and editing a area for me to add a puff, I also wanted the puff to be a hand drawn image of Santa.

I started drawing in procreate a broad design of him and began getting frustrated and played with idea of drawing a logo.

I came up with this and frankly I thought it ugly and lazy, so I went back to my original idea but instead of drawing straight into the app, I sketched out what I wanted first.

This was the sketch I came up with and uploaded it to Procreate to draw.

I finished the coloring, but the area for the puff I added was black, and the light blue background in the image heavily contrasted it in a negative way

I changed the background to black and uploaded it into the area of InDesign

With additional captions this is the final image for my ad

Production- coloring on the advertisment

 Since I've obtained my final image for the advertisement I uploaded it to procreate to draw over it.

My original idea was for a hand to be frosting the brownies with a pipette, while drawing I realized it was not looking right, so I scrapped that idea.

I decided for the pipettes to be floating in the air and frosting the brownies, and I experimented with placing and shaping each of them.

This was my final drawing I ended up making 

Afterwards, I put the image into my spread and added a boarder and ellipses space for a puff of a Santa, I'll draw in procreate.

Production- Cover image production

 To execute my plan of the inmate gingerbread man I began working on the frosting of the cookie that I would use for my cover image

I wanted to see both options of photographing the image vertically or horizontally, I ultimately decided the horizontal version to be my final image

I placed the image in InDesign and placed a boarder and black surrounding the image

While editing the remaining coverlines I realized the black was providing a dark atmosphere that I felt did not go with the rest of the spread.

I changed the black to a light blue 

This ended up being the final product.

Production-Baking and photographing for advertisment

 For my ad, I wanted to make brownies and frosted them as Santa to promote the product of frosting.

This is me initially making the brownies

I mixed the colors of the frosting for my image

I experimented with angles and lighting to see which one bet highlighted the food in a appealing manner and to find the specific angle that would allow me to draw images and inset a puff later on.

This was the final image I decided on.