Introduction to Indesign

For our next module with David White we have to master the art of Adobe Indesign, creating magazine style editorial spaces. 

Here are the examples I created in Celine's masterclass (featuring lorem Ipsum and for the last two examples my own pictures)

ALL WORK IS COPYRIGHT ELLIE HETEBRIJ PHOTOGRAPHY

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The Assignment Brief:

First assignment:

You are to produce 2 single sided A3 sheets  on one story/body of work:

All content to be from negatives shot on previous assignments since beginning of year. Can be any content.

First A3 DPS (Double Page Spread) to use a single establishing image and any other content needed to make a powerful double page opener: eg headline, caption, text, design etc.

Second DPS to be a continuation of same story/body of work, using more than one picture and any other content needed to strengthen layout, eg text, design, quotes, Qr codes, etc etc.

Negatives should be scanned to the highest quality and reproduction should be as fine as you can achieve. I expect your digital mono scans to be better than the best wet prints you could achieve.Do not scan your prints.

Layouts to be done in Adobe Indesign. NO LOREM IPSUM. NO TYPOS.

Remember:

You are the editor, the picture editor, the journalist, the art director, the photographer and the designer of the above pages. Consider your responsibilities carefully. Consider the reader carefully. Every one of the above roles carries equal weight.

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Even though my first idea was to do an article surrounding one of my first shoots (The Pole Fitness Instructor, Person at work) Dave was stressing that this is mostly about the quality of your images over the quality of your text (although this is also important) so I decided/ thought best that I used my male portrait images as these were undoubtedly the strongest out of the first semesters portfolio.

http://issuu.com/theflymagazine/docs/the_fly_july_2013_edition

I love the article to the right from 'The Fly' magazine from the July issue, as even though its an establishing image the editor has used the negative space or in this case the blank page in a creative and effective manner.

.http://issuu.com/dmjx/docs/final_web  

Great establishing image page and secondary page from 'Challenges of Europe' fall 2011, establishing image uses the negative space well to draw you into the story simplistically and dynamically, and then the second DPS uses pictures well to back up the story, however for the page with the six images I would change the formatting slightly so they were central on the page.