Independent Novel Study Magazine Inquiry Project
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By Friday the 13th (ooh) the following parts of your magazine are due:
Task #1-Create a cover for your magazine: Use this How to Create a Music Magazine Cover in InDesign (start with step 9) as a guide to complete your cover. This YouTube tutorial is also helpful (continue on with part 2). As the example to the left illustrates, ensure to include the following: Dateline, Main Image, Masthead (name of magazine), Main Cover line, Barcode (optional-but more authentic) and Cover lines.
Draw on the following sites to ensure you use copyright free images:
Press F8 or FN F8 to check the resolution
To increase the resolution of a pic up 100 place in photoshop go to image and then change the resolution number to 300.
defont is a great site to find creative fonts
To push wrapped text away from the image press command B then choose the second icon in text wrap around image then below increase the numbers to create more space between your image and the text.
To change transparency click on image, click object, effects, and transparency.
Ensure that all the images you use are at least 300 dpi when stretched to the size you wish to adopt-otherwise they will come out blurry when we print your magazine. Ensuring that you info palette is on, see this Increase the photo resolution in Photo-shop on how to check and increase resolution. As a general rule you can only increase an image by 100 dpi at the most. However, this How to make a smaller picture larger with no loss of quality tutorial can help you stretch this.
Task #2-Page 2-quote page/table of contents:
Option 1-quote: For this page you are asked to pull out a quote from your story that speaks powerfully to the main themes in your novel. Alternatively, you could also find a quote that is not in your story but also speaks powerfully to the themes in your novel.
Option 2-prologue: If you are reading a book that requires quite a bit of background information (i.e. fantasy, science fiction) for someone to understand the story, instead of doing a quote, write a short prologue outlining events that have come before the book began. This should include circumstances that form the setting of the events in your novel.
Page 3-Table of Contents: For this page draw inspiration from table of contents in Magazines in the class or on-line to create a table of contents for your magazine. We are creating a twelve page magazine and the main pages are as follows: p. 4-5-Interview, p. 6-7-Soundtrack for your book and analysis of one song, p. 8-poem for your book, p. 9-11-Feature-review of your book, p. 12-advertisement. Get creative as to what you call these sections.
See this link for over 20 examples of visually appealing table of contents examples.
Task #3: Page 4 and 5-Interview: Begin by watching this on-line tutorial to help you identify the elements to include in your spread.
Then, finishing up the work we did before Christmas, please complete your two page spread of your interview. This should include a short bio of the character you are interviewing (50-75 words) and the interview itself. For the bio focus on word choice and sentence variety. For the interview, focus on explaining the circumstances your character finds themselves in. This should be at least 400 words.
See this slide show for Four Elements to consider when designing your layout. Note in the example at the top how the questions are clearly distinguished from the answers.
Your two page spread must include: a bold title that gets the reader's attention, columns, author's name, call out (pulled out quote), and symbol at the end to indicate article is finished.
For example:
Interview with Matt Damon
Matt Damon talks to Brian D. Johnson about celebrities rescuing Africa, Harper's betrayal, and actors in the white house
BRIAN D. JOHNSON | November 28, 2007 |
Recently, People magazine named Matt Damon the Sexiest Man Alive. He was the first to scoff at the title, treating it as more of an embarrassment than an honour. Nicest Guy in Show Business might be a more fitting label for the boyish actor from Boston. With the Bourne franchise under his belt, Damon, 37, is a major Hollywood player, but he's the anti-Cruise superstar. Face to face, he seems remarkably ordinary and self-effacing. Before sitting down for this conversation, he strolled into the room, unannounced and unnoticed. Later tonight, he and his buddy Ben Affleck will hop on a private jet to embark on a fact-finding mission in Africa — where Damon is now heavily engaged in the fight against child poverty and disease.
Your interview would then go next.
You will be marked based on word choice, transitions, and sentence variety.
Along with sentence variety, the interview will be marked based on your ability to create the "voice" of your character as well as your ability to provide the background events and context necessary to understand your character's responses.
Please paste a final draft into the google doc so I can provide feedback. Each spelling or grammar mistake in your finished version will result in 1 percent taken off your final mark.
Getting started with inDesign:
There are a great deal of on-line tutorials to help you achieve the design you wish on YouTube. Here are some examples, but by doing a simple Google search, you can often find exactly what you are looking for on your own.Overview:
InDesign Basics:
Working with Images and Objects:
- Mixing images over and under text
- Remove a picture background in five seconds
- Creating a picture with a thousand words
- How to blur sections of pictures
- Wrapping text-placing text within an image
- How to wrap text around a graphic
- How to push an image into text
- How to place text on a path
