Magazine+Cover+Assignment

=__**Magazine Cover Assignment**__=


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These two covers have a few things in common. - Penelope Cruz and Orlando Bloom were both in the movie Pirates Of The Caribbean. - Both of them are looking right into the camera, trying to catch the readers attention. - The two covers have a very simple background. - Both have a bright coloured banner. - They both have their hand by their head. - Neither of them are really smiling. - Both have dark hair. - Both are wearing a white shirt.
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The main story in Vogue is 150+ ways to heat up your summer. It relates to the image because the photo is very summery. She's wearing a tank-top, her hair is a little wet which looks like she was in the water, the background looks like the beach, and her skin is glowing like she got a tan. The main story in Life is about Orlando Bloom. The title is a question. It relates to the image because he's reaching out to the reader trying to bring you in.
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The Vogue magazine has the design principle of Depth of Field, and triangles. The Life magazine has the design principle of triangles, and simple and single point.
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**The Evolution of the Magazine Cover**
Magazines were the first media to become national in scope. They also contained articles designed to be lasting appeal. There were magazines during the colonial period, but the first significant American magazine was the Saturday Evening Post. Espousing conservative, middle-class values, the Post was seen as a reflection of American society.

Early magazine covers always had drawings, not pictures and they were very simple. They often had a moral and religious theme to them.

The poster cover cover had large pictures that cover pretty much the whole front page, little to no words, and only one central topic. The pictures were visually appealing.

The initial purpose of the cover line is to attract the audience. This is achieved through its utilization of clashing colours.

An Integrated Cover is when the the picture and the cover lines are balanced together and is visually interesting.

The placement of the cover lines can effect how the reader thinks about the magazine. The placement can visually attract the reader and will balance the magazine.

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Outside The Box - The simplest method for combining pictures with cover lines is to keep them in separate areas of the covers. A box contained the title, another box contained the picture, a third box contained cover lines or other publication data. Inside The Box - Boxes inside an illustration. Lines that share the space of the picture. Columns - Columns share the space with the picture. The column usually contains a table of context, ads for articles in the magazine and other information. Zones - Many magazines adopted a recurring cover format that regularly featured a column of cover lines. Early magazines tended to place these zones into separate boxes, but later designers eliminated many of the confining and decorative lines on cover. Banners and Corners - Banners seem to belong to attention-grabbing "loud" covers, and have been used little, or in restrained ways, by successful, mainstream publications. Unplanned Spaces -Text might be described as being fitted into spaces that seem almost accidentally left blank by the illustrator. Planned Spaces - When cover lines appear in the taken image and can be purposely placed. Many illustrations created spaces especially for the display of cover lines, on elements inside the illustrations--such as walls, sails, columns, doorways, open windows, and other uniformly colored spaces against which type could be placed.

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