Objective
We will be creating a magazine spread that will serve as just the title spread for an article. Our focus is on the headline. We have very limited text, so we need to do something special and exciting with the text we have and images we use. This is the draw of the article. This is what will bring the reader in to want to read what we have to say. We are going to imagine that we have 4 more pages after this full of great content, but this will pull the reader in.
Specs & Assets
Document
- Size: 5.5″x8.5″
- 2 page Spread
- For Print
- 1/8″ bleed minimum
Text
- You must choose from the 3 text selections below for each spread
5 Reasons Why We Crave Comfort Foods
By Shahram Heshmat Ph.D.
The attraction of comfort food
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10 Tasty Indianapolis Burger Joints
By Cavan McGinsie
From the tried-and-true to the experimental and new, these are just a few of the tastiest burgers around Indy.
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American Dudes & Fast Food
By Tim Willingham
The American Male’s Addiction Fast Food
Images
Choose your own High Quality Images. You can get them from stock photo sites or you can take the photos yourself.
- Use at least 1 image
- Image must be 300 dpi
- Image in CMYK
- Image must not be pixelated
Free Stock Photos sites
- Unsplash – unsplash.com (Links to an external site.)
- Pexels – www.pexels.com (Links to an external site.)
- Adobe Stock Images https://stock.adobe.com/ (Links to an external site.) – When you are at the home page click the drop down to the left of the search box a choose free. You may have to be logged-in to do this.
What is Due
This is a 3 part assignment. Sketches, Drafts, & Final
Sketches
- Create 10 Sketches
- Sketch Size : Roughly 3.6″x2.781″
1st Draft
- 1st Draft will consist of 2 different title treatments
- Both spreads should be in the same InDesign Document
- The text can be the same, but I want to see 2 different treatments to the title of the article and spread
- Turn on facing pages
- Bleed of 1/8″
- Print Ready PDF of both spreads in one document
- LastName-Firstname-Ex06-1-draft
Final
- 1 spread with you final Title Treatment
- Turn on facing pages
- Bleed of 1/8″
- Packaged and zipped
- LastName-Firstname-Ex06-2-final
Ideas
- Ideas of other magazine article titles. Some of these are spreads and some are not.