Week 13-Stanislaus

Decision for Story:

For my magazine project, I decided to choose Michael Jackson. My reasoning behind my choice is because I really like Michael Jackson and his music and I felt that it would be a good selection to do a magazine spread about him. Not only was he a wonderful musician but wonderful person. I also felt that any story I chose to do on him would have a lot of vibrant images to choose from for my spread.

Choice of Typeface:

For the cover, I decided to use the font ITC Isadora Std. My reasoning behind this was I felt that it cosigned well with the title of the magazine, Royalty. I felt that it had a very regal, majestic look to it and Michael Jackson is the King of Pop so why not use such a font. I also chose to make it all caps because I feel like upper case lettering gives a sense of power and dominance. For the headline, I chose to use Berling LT Std. The reason why I chose to use this font is because I feel it was a very docile font that coordinated well with the picture on the 1^st spread. For the deck head and the alternative copy, I chose to use the font Caxton Std. I chose this font because I feel it coordinate well with the headline and the font. For the body text, I chose ITC Berkeley Old Style because I felt it looked like the font used in magazines.

Images:

The sources and sizes of the images I chose are:

http://pasembur.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/michael_jackson_-_number_ones.jpg

This is the cover photo. It is 1600x1200 pixels.

http://celebrityastrologyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/michael_jackson_white_bird_1975.jpg

This is the picture for the first spread. It is 5025x3339 pixels.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7800000/Liberian-Girl-michael-jackson-7848255-1638-2560.jpg

This is the photo within the article. It Is 1638x2560 pixels.

http://www.michaeljackson.ch/thisisitmovie.jpg

This is the photo for the back cover. It is 2017x3000 pixels.

Color:

For the cover, the pull quote and the drop letter, I took the red from Michael Jackson’s pants on the cover, which are R209, G31 and B21. For the headline and deckhead on the first spread I took the green from the background, which is R47, G63 and B50. For the alternative copy I used a gold color which is R235, R167 and B45.

Weel Thirteen - Seo

When I first got this project, I instantly thought doing my project about Michael Jackson. He is the one of my favorite singers and his moves and music are extremely energetic that I think this will be good for making magazine about him.

Pictures

I tried to avoid pictures that are lower than 300 pixels. Most of my images I used in this project are more than 800 pixels. One of the images that I used on the right side of first spreadsheet is from Vogue magazine in 2007. The image was relatively low to place only a single image. I used all three images from Vogue to make a one page cover.
The most interesting pictures that I found was my cover face. The size was perfect for to cover the single page by itself (1500 pixels) and this was a face of Michael Jackson by drawing with pencils.

Typefaces

First of all, I used Blackoak Std for my title of magazine “ZEA!?” Because I looked for some typeface that looks very condensed and has strong feeling on it. For the body text I used Caslon and it was really easy to use because they categorized with different purpose of uses: heading or body texts and also the body texts are easily to read. Other sub headings such as the side bar, or anything other than body texts, I used Folio Std and Frutiger LT Std because it really matches with my magazine title and I do not want to use the same typeface for heading.

Design

I tried to keep the same design concept with the original magazine. However, it places two magazine ads in the article and I decided to move those. Basically, the magazine illustration was done by Andy Warhol who is one of my favorite illustrate designers. Thus, I decided to go to similar concepts with the design pattern he used with different pictures. The other spread sheet, I inserted side bar which I collected all the celebrities quotes about Michal Jackson and other page I put a huge Michael Jackson’s silhouette image in the middle.