Work for the magazine project.

This army magazine is exactly what it says on the cover, each page contains different reasons why they feel you should join the army. The booklet is aimed at teenagers leaving school showing them that their life could lead to a career in the army. The booklet pages have mostly a pristine white background then with the images and the details of the course on top of the white. Most of the text in the booklet is in block captials and in either yellow, black or white writing, this suits the milliarty look of the booklet well because it fits in the camouflage colours. The block capitals reminded me of shouting comands in the army to the soldiers. the publication is printed on thick shiny card.

Gear magazine is a free publication that is distributed into music shops showing the latest gig news, and information on different musical intruments and practising spaces available in the area. The font on the cover of the magazine has a very old rock look to it, with the black and red reminding me of the rolling stones image. The magazine has a scrap book feeling to all of the pages with lots of different articles in lots of different styles all mashed together in the pages. The magazine, I think is aimed at anyone interested in music, with the vide range of articles you could read it if you were looking for a gig, looking for a place to practise or interested in the different articles on different artists. It contained lots of advertistments on most of the pages. The publication is printed on thin shiny paper. 

This publication is an advertising leaflet that is distributed door step to door step to advertise the local businesses. The layout is very simple and the colours are limited and the leaflet is printed on matt thick paper. The aim of this publication is to let people know what different types of services there are available to them in their area like window cleaners, and plumbers. Advertisers will pay for a place each month in the leaflet. The publication is aimed at adults who'd need such services for their house/flat etc.

Joe Browns is a clothing catalogued delivered every few months advertising their current range of clothes for the current season. It is printed on thick shiny paper. The colours and designs all through the publication are bright and colourful and unique which go hand in hand with their unique clothing designs aimed to be bright and colourful and well made. The products are aimed at an teenage/adult audience, it does not contain any children's clothes. The aim of the publication is to show the current clothes that this business is selling this season. 

This magazine is stereotypically aimed at a female house wife audience, but could really be read by the male generation too. It is printed on a4 glossy paper and is quite a thick publication. The magazine contains a wide range of information from recipes, to clothes to gossip. It has the typical magazine cover lay out, with the big image of a person on the cover then the article information down either side. The colours of the magazine are normally pastel colours. It's a collection of lots of different articles on cooking, self help, fashion etc. The aim of the publication is to give housewives lots of different information to help them in life, from recipes to help with saving money. 

The Morrisons magazine is a free publication that is picked up in store. It's an A5 magazine printed on thick matt paper. The publication is aimed at, I'd say, adult shoppers in Morrisons. The booklet contains recipes and related articles about health and different foods. The colours through the publication are bright greens and yellows resembling a healthy foods feel like vegetables. It sort of represents the typical magazine cover with the big photograph on the front, then the article lists on the side of it. The aim of the booklet is to promote healthy eating but also give information on practical delicious recipies you can make by using the produce from Morrisons. 

The xbox 360 official magazine is a publication based on everything to do with xboxs like new games, reviews and new products that are available. The colour scheme throughout the magazine I think are quite stereotypically boy colours, despite the magazine being readable for both sexes. The cover photograph is normally a character from a game they have an article on. The magazine is A4 and is printed on glossy paper.  The aim of the magazine is to promote new games and reviews to an xbox playing audience and give information about new releases to get people interested. 

This is a small publication aimed at putting across information about a business. The colours and layout of the publication is very girly and the swirls and boarder which ties in with the vintage feel of it.  This is printed on A5 card and is double sided. I think this is strongly aimed at the female population due to the colours and design. The font matches the feeling of it too, tying in with the old vintage but elegant tea party feeling. The publication is distributed free with the aim of showing off the business. 

Here is a car auction publication aimed at showing all the new different cars that are available to bid for at Scottish motor auctions. Next to each car details there is a QR code that when scanned shows up pictures and more details about the chosen car. The publication is printed on matt paper and is an A5 booklet. It's aimed at anyone visiting the auction. The booklet has a really plain and simple lay out, just putting across the important information needed about the cars. One is published for every sale, there's one every four days a week. 

This publication is a rock magazine which contains music reviews, articles, gig information on loads of different rock music. It's printed A3 on thin glossy paper. It's aimed at anyone interested in that type of music, most of it is articles done by Kerang, but then bands and companies can pay to put an advert in, such as alternative clothing company's. The aim of the publication is to keep the reader updated on all things music related through the week. The fonts of titles through out the magazine represent a rock grudge feeling, and the colours yellow black and pink represent a punk feeling. 

For Julies class we have to create some sort of publication, a printed one in Julies that we'll design and make ourselves and a video version of it for Tony's lesson. We were allowed to use already taken projects to put into these forms, but I decided to do a new project to fit into it. Here's a few ideas pages that I did in trying to think of different ideas for magazines and what sort of topic I could think of to use.

After going through lots of different ideas I decided that I'd like to do a project like 100 strangers, but do a mini version, and do about 20 different people. 

After deciding on my magazine project topic I decided to have a look on the internet at different strangers projects that people have taken on. I tried to find the original 100 strangers project to talk about, but there was far too many to work out who'd started it all. I did find this website ''http://www.100strangers.com'' which is giving useful tips and information on where to blog about your projects!

This was the most useful bit of information on the website, it was a pretty daunting idea deciding to talk to loads of strangers, so this information helped me alot. 

''Tips and suggestions

Discussions in the 100 strangers group are a great resource.  Here are some useful tips and suggestions from these discussions.

Choosing a stranger

Look for people who don't look like they are in a rush. The more relaxed they are, the easier it is to get a photo usually. Try looking for some people relaxing and reading a book, such as in a park or in a cafe. Start out with people in very populated areas. Usually people relaxing in a somewhat noisy scene are accustomed to the noise and like the presence of other people.

Robert P Baxter
original context

Approaching a stranger

People are kinder and better then you ever think they are or expect them to be. ... I think we want to avoid making our strangers feel uncomfortable and avoid looking (or acting) like a creep.

This is what I do:

1. I tell them immediately what I would like. 
2. I ask them if its ok to take a picture. 
3. Then I chat with them; sometimes i chat for 10-15 minutes( this is the key, everyone likes to talk about themselves) 
4.  I shoot a bunch of pictures...and ask which ones they like.
5. I invite them to email me if they'd like a picture (moo cards are brilliant. I have ones with my name, flickraddress, and email) 

If they say no, I visibly put my camera away and chat a bit. If you respect their refusal, you are acting in the best way possible.''

There have been lots of different ways people have handled the information they collected from the strangers. This example shows where a photographer took alot of information about the stranger and got to know them by having a bit chat with them. The photographer wrote about what the girl did, what she was doing at the weekend etc. I really liked the idea of getting to know someone new really well and them not being a stranger anymore. 

Next here is an example where a photographer just kept the information to a minimum about the stranger. This photographer just revealed the location of the shoot and the persons job. I think the massive paragraphs about the strangers work best as individual works, it would take absolutely ages to read all of the paragraphs about the strangers. Since I have decided to do a book for my project, with at least 20 people in, I think I will keep my information about the person at a minimum because I would like someone to be able to flick through the book and meet 20 new people easily, and I think small chunks of information is easier to take in, and people would be more likely to read through it.

I next had a look at ways the information was displayed, although most of the projects were documented online there were some photographers who'd made publications out of their project.

I first found these cards that had been made about each stranger. Each card had a part of one of the strangers face and the logo of the project. Although the card didn't contain a little bit of information on the stranger, I thought that would be a nice idea. If I had made these cards myself I would have added the information about the person on the card, with the number of which stranger in the project they were. 

From all my planning work I have decided the front cover of my magazine and the lay out of the pages. I have also started thinking about the fonts that I am going to use for the title and the rest of the booklet.

To fit into my magazine I plan to have the persons name, what they do, then what wish they'd have if they could have anything in the world. But then for my video version I want to include that, but also have a short video of the person, not sure of what doing yet though!

My theme for the magazine will be black white and red, all my photos will be in black and white, then fonts and parts of the booklet will be picked out in red. 

Now it was time to go out and take the photos. Since it was quite a dark night, I decided to do most of my project stood in a certain part of the st johns centre in Leeds. All photographs would be take in portrait and with a flash and all my video would be filmed in landscape. I decided that for my video I didn't want it to be serious, more of a nice funny thing showing the different interests of all the different people, so for it I got people to act like their favourite animal.                                                     <<<<< I gave everyone one of these so that they could view their photograph online too!

I printed out some sheets for me to fill in with everyone's details, here are the scanned in versions of them.

I ended up having to do 21, because after all the details and one photograph taken, the person wouldn't take part in the video. Which in the end didn't actually matter, I was only using the photographs and a different topic for the video project, so I just left one person out.

Here's a contact sheet of all the images I took.

There wasn't really a system to the people I picked, I was going to do something like only people with an umbrella but since only about half of the people you ask in these sort of things say yes, I just went and picked the people who smiled back at me before I asked them to partake.

I then turned all the photographs black and white, for my front cover I cropped copies of the photos to a square and put them all into a grid using picasa. This is to print off to do a mock up of what I'd like my cover to be like, here's the collage of photos, then I printed it off and painted it with acrylic paint to get some sort of idea for the front cover.

Using photoshop I went round all of my photographs to create silhouettes.

Here's all of the files ready to be put onto the front cover.

Here I had a go at designing a few posible page layouts for my strangers photos and their information.

I decided that I liked my first idea of having a bit of paper put across the image, I think it fit well with the news paper clipping font that I used for my front cover.

I opened each photograph of the strangers in photoshop and put a stock image of a lined piece of paper in the corner of the image ready to type over when the images are in InDesign.

I next put them into Microsoft Publisher, because I was having trouble making InDesign work.

I next started working on my front cover with the Silhouettes I made.

I haven't come up with a final layout of it all so I had a go at drawing a few ideas.

Here's what I've come up with so far, I intend to put the title of the book (Which I'm not quite sure of yet) on the bottom of the book.

I have decided to call my project 'Twenty Strangers, Twenty Wishes'

I wanted a news paper clipping font for the title of my book, but I decided that if I scanned in the letters it wouldn't look as good, so I found this font, which I downloaded and opened in Publisher. 

Next I needed to work out how I was going to type the information about each strangers on the lined paper that I'd put on the images.

I'd decided that my colour scheme for my booklet would be red and black, like my front cover so I need to incorporate this into the rest of my booklet. 

Because I'd used a stock image for the lined paper it was tinted slightly blue so I turned it to grey scale in the picture effects in publisher. 

But after turning some of the words in red, I decided that it all looked better in black and white. 

After filling in the rest of the details in the magazine the last thing I have to do is to put all of the pictures of the people in the same order as the front cover but as regular photos, like you know them all now. 

I decided that I needed to explain what I'm doing to the reader of the magazine so I added in a page at the start explaining the booklet and what I wanted to achieve.

Evaluation

Like I said in my video project evaluation, was that I probably made it harder for myself giving myself two different topics, so through that I don't think I did as much on each as I could, as I was always caught up with the other.
Other than that, I'm really happy with the end result of my magazine, I think the front cover works best, I love the effect of the silhouettes. 

I think I managed to link my end product back to my research well, and show that it highly influenced me in my final choices. I was pretty happy with the lay out of my final pages of my magazine, but I do wish I'd asked the strangers a few more questions to bulk up the information a bit more. After worrying about what question would be good to ask people, I think the wish one became quite powerful, people gave some quite quick easy answers like money, then some people went further and deeper to say things like they wanted to be out of pain. 

I managed to get my magazine printed on thick paper, so the final print worked out really well. I think If I could do my project again I would have got to know the people even more because I found it really enjoyable to do and I over come my fear of talking to people in the streets a bit.