Magazine Page

For the past few weeks in art, we have been working in groups of three or four, working towards creating magazine pages. We started by drawing up thumbnail sketches of possible layouts, and looking at tutorials showing how to do particular things like change font and add photos etc, before using Adobe Illustrator to create magazine pages based on a combined version of all our group member's sketches.

Does your design reflect your thumbnail sketches so far?
I believe so. We've changed certain things as they didn't work/look the way we had hoped they would, but the general placing of images and text is the same.

Does your design reflect the feeling of your topic?
My groups topic was originally theatre, but we have since then changed it to 'the arts'- which makes it much easier to incorporate our own artwork when it comes to that. We haven't decided on how we are going to display our art or some of the photos, but so far the writing we have on the page reflects our topic. It doesn't fully quite yet, but it will.

Do you know where your leading lines are?
Yes, the page on the right of our layout is a mix of both photos and writing with very noticeable leading lines.

Do you know what your focal point is?
Our focal point is our heading, which says 'Mahi Toi', translating to art in English, and is on the middle of the left page.

Have you played around with layering your visuals?
We haven't yet, but we are strongly considering trying to layer some of our prints, and also partially tinting fragments of photos on our page.

Is there a 'thing' you want to know how to do, but don't? Have you googled it or asked?
Regarding the tinting, we didn't know how to do it on Illustrator to do with, but we soon realised we could do this by creating boxes the same colour as the background of our text, and changing the level of transparency.

How does this help your learning?
It shows all the skills and techniques we have been learning throughout this first semester, such as using leading lines and focal points. By incorporating out artwork it also shows the different forms of art we've been looking at such as Michael Mew and mixed media, Sonja Terk Delaunay and orphism, and more.

The following photos (and video featuring Molly) are... Pretty much mistakes we made along the way. There were many, Many, mistakes.

This is what our page looks like right now-