Double Page Magazine Spread – Ancillary Task

FontsWe chose this font for the facts along the side of the double page magazine spread as we wanted something that was simple and clear as they are quite serious facts. Once again it is black writing on top of red and yellow backgrounds – sticking to the colour scheme.

We used plain font for the article so it is clear for viewers to read. We used mainly black font, however to show which part is the interview we used blue and red font to show a clear separation between the main text and the interview.

For the title we used quite a child-like font again, similar to the font of the newspaper advert I did. I decided to use the same font so you can clearly see a connection between all the advertisements which I think is quite conventional for real media.

Images

For the double page magazine spread we incorporated 5 images. We photographed 3 of them, including the chips, burger and drink. Then we used an image of the fast food take-away bag and chip box from the internet. We chose to use these images as they are relevant to the subject of fast food, so clearly show to the audience what the documentary is about, in a visual way.

Comparison to real media

The similarities between my double page magazine spread and this real media is that:• They both include columns.• They both combine text and images.• They both have a fact file or character profiles along the side.

The differences between my double page magazine spread and this real media is that:• Our double page spread has more text.• The real media incorporates a large image, where as ours includes more smaller images.• The colours we used are brighter and bolder and represent our theme well, where as the real media used plain and simple colours.

IT and Technologies Used

We used a ‘Canon’ camera to photograph the fast food images which we used on the magazine spread.

We used Microsoft Publisher to create the magazine as it has lots of different features which are good for creating magazine spreads, like unique fonts, borders/frames, different background settings and new shapes and designs.

We used Microsoft Paint to edit the images which we used on our magazine spread. This software allowed us to crop and draw around the fast food images to make them suitable for our magazine spread.

We used Windows Photo Viewer to view and edit the images we took.

We used Google to research other magazine spreads for inspiration, to help with our magazine spread. We also got an image of the take-away, fast food bag and chip holder from Google.