This is one of my favourite images I have of myself riding. The framing of the image also lends it's self perfectly to the use of a double page spread article in a listings magazine due to the main 'action' of the image being all on the left of the image. Being a 1280X1024 image, it is also very high quality, and a good resolution to use with a few small tweaks to the saturation in Photoshop.
Now into InDesign:
I first input the correct dimensions of an A3 page being 420mm by 297mm.
Being a programme specifically designed for magazine style pages, InDesign automatically gave me the basic guidelines and centre line which was very helpful when positioning text and images.
With the image in place, I could now really get a feel for how the layout of the page was to shape up. Although I had previously hoped, I was revieved to see that the rider (me) was perfectly framed in the left hand page and did not spill over into the right hand side giving a clean cut, defined look to the page already.
The next move was to insert another image of myself that I particularly liked. Unfortunately though, the backbround of that image was far too busy to use as a background image and there was very little sky present. I therefore used photoshop to draw round myself, cutting away the background and leaving just myself in a mid-air 'tuck'. I recently learned how to text wrap successfully on the InDesign so I wanted to utilise this new found knowledge and make use of this great image together.
I had constructed a body of text using inspiration from my three similar media texts that I researched in Word. This body was roughly 800 words long and I was a little afraid of it not fitting onto the page but I simply decreased the size to 10 and utilised the two columns as much as possible. I constructed the write up in an interview style as if written by the editors of a magazine as apposed to the producer or director of the show it's self. This felt promising and followed the codes and conventions previously stated and replicated by the magazines I studies.
So now, nearly everything is complete. The background image is perfect, the text wrapped image in the top right is of good quality and there are no nasty awkward words present in the text wrapping. The 'Boy Got Dreams' title I am very please with as I wanted to set this apart slightly from the other two productions. The main reason for this being that this is the only text that would have been created by the magazine's editors and not the director or producer in charge of the documentart it's self. Coming from a third party would mean slightly different editing styles and favourite typrefaces so I am happy with the finished look. This was very simple to produce as it was simpy written in a text box and a global 'Bevel & Emboss' placed upon it along with a small 'Drop Shadown' to give the text some three dimensional depth.
All that was left now was the scheduling information. I wanted to relate this back to my research of similar media texts by using a slightly different colour scheme and typeface for this important information enclosing it in some sort of box or definition from the main body of text. I furthered this definition by placing it on the non-text side of the double page spread making it the only text on that A4 page, minus the title it's self. The box that contains the scheduling information was very simple to make as I used the pen tool to draw an angular shape (practically a rectangle) and then drew a line directly over the top of this in a solid white colour to add contrast. The colour I chose for the background of this box was then decreased in opacity to set the text apart from the background and voila...a finished double page spread suitable for a listings magazine.
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