Our third task was to translate our mood boards
into 4 different newspaper layouts using the grid as a guide. We were given a
selection of different grid sheets to use as a guide when drawing up our
designs. These comprised of grids such as 4 columns and 8 columns, to which I
used a mixture. I enjoyed and looked forward to this task, as this was one of
the more practical and hands-on workshops.
I first created a thumbnail sheet as to aid my vision in the
sort of layout I had in mind, as this is a much quicker way of getting your
ideas together while also developing them further. This is also useful for working out the amount
of columns I would require within my design. While creating this sheet I observed
pre-existing magazine and newspaper layouts.
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| Thumbnail Sheet |
Next I narrowed down my layout designs to just four, in the
image above you can see I have placed an asterix next to the thumbnails I felt
worked most. Below you can see my drawn up full-size layout designs. I
plan to translate these onto InDesign at some point to demonstrate my designs
as a final piece.
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| 8 columns - 4 lines of text on each page |
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| 3/4 columns - 3 lines of text per page |
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| 4 columns - 4 lines of text per page |
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| 2 columns - 2 column typesetting |
Before attending this workshop we were asked to print off
our story, headline, quotes and taglines in a variety of fonts and sizes, as we
felt appropriate to alternate between.
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| 8 Columns - 4 lines of text on each page |
We were asked to cut these out and stick them on our layouts
as we have dictated, however I found this quite frustrating as it meant I had
to cut into the text to be able to place it upon the page. The alternative to
this, which I started off doing was to carefully cut each sentence out and cut
apart as needed though this was excessively time-consuming, in which case I
changed to the method mentioned previous. However I only completed one of these
as I feel much happier and I am more confident in creating these with the text
within InDesign itself.
