AICE Media Studies Blog - Jorge Rosell

In this blog post, I'll talk about other aspects of my Table of Contents page, such as how I planned it, how I made decisions and revisions, the process, how I used a sense of branding, and digital creative tools I used. The picture above is a rough sketch of the Table of Contents page I did a few months ago. First code/convention incorporated into the TOC (Table of Contents) page is that none of the pictures I used are the same as the cover story. This did not happen in any of the Rolling Stone magazines issues I researched, so I had no need to do it. This adds variety to the magazine, and also tells you what is awaiting in the following pages. Another code/convention I implemented is the color scheme. In the planning paper, I wrote down that I wanted the TOC page to be basically colorful and vibrant. Ultimately, I feel like I did just that. Not only in the 4 pictures on the top half of the page, but also on the design of the page overall. The blue and red colours used ...

This is my table of contents page, with 4 original photographs which I took (and I thought that the drawings on the cover and feature spread counted as original pictures, but they don't, and I didn't know that until very recently.) The techniques I used to create meaning are essentially through the photos which I took (all 4 of them). For the 2 top pictures, I took them and then edited them using a depth of field effect to focus on and emphasize the main subject/object of the picture (for the top left, I focused on the CDs and the way they are stacked, and for the top right, I focused on the artist, Bad Bunny). For the bottom pictures, I went a step further and actually edited things like their saturation, color depth/intensity, etc. On the bottom left, I didn't use a depth of field effect because I wanted to encompass everything in the picture, even the background flowers that I set up on my table at home, and on the bottom right, I did use a depth of field to foc...

Now, I will talk about the planning that went into the creation of the feature spread, pictures while I was designing in InDesign, my use of digital creative tools, among other things that involved my feature spread's creative process. This is my rough sketch of what I initially envisioned my feature spread to look like. I stuck with the artist(s) extending across the spread, rather than have them only on one page (again, this was due to the codes/conventions of the Rolling Stone magazine which I was following.) Not only that, but also the fact that the feature spread was a continuation of whatever the cover/main image/main cover line would have been. Since I had the cover completed a while before completing my feature spread (I was working on both at the same time), I hardly made any revisions. I also learned from my initial mistake I made on the cover, which was to make a cover which didn't incorporate any research of the codes/conventions of Rolling Stone magazine. ...