Aditya Hari AS Level Media Studies

  As you can see the majority of the text is not visible and even some of the pictures are masked by the big picture in the background. Although the layout is fine the content is too much for this layout and decreasing the text size should have been the right choice but it is barely visible.    These are the best of the pictures I took for the siphoning experiment. The problem is that all my pictures look flat in comparison to my art and do not look a part of the layout in the first attempt of the double spread and this is solved by changing the layout for the second attempt. But my contents page suffers the most from the aforementioned blend between art and pictures, and removing the art will destroy the effect that I wanted to convey of how the design, layout and illustration play a big part in how the reader is interested in said content. I was able to change the contents page and make it less cluttered. I changed the over all layout from A4 to landscape to...

            VS  Although this is not a fair comparison as the former is just a page out of a magazine while the latter is a double spread. Here I broke the convention by having illustrations in the background and pictures only at the key moments of the experiment's explanation( the materials required ). The pictures in the left side represent how the general set up would work and clarifies any doubts the reader has about the experiment. The text in the former( the magazine page ) is only there to give the reader  awareness of the subject matter  rather than present it to them . It serves the same purpose as a news paper article which solely exists to give the reader the information in the cheapest and most easily accessible manner and make them aware of the current situation the human society is in. Thus, I reiterate that all content creators and publishers like magazines have to keep in mind and target the photographic me...

I  used illustrator  for the cover page and it took a long time for correction even with stylu. Dealing with multiple layers made it complicated layers  Illustrator cover issue text was color yellow and orange because it was written in line with the magazine font color  Illustrator cover volume was color blue white because the colors went well with the water the sky and the buildings First Illustrator, then transferred to Photoshop to create soft light, blur, layering and stylizing effects for post processing to make the cover look more polished.  In this blog I am going to cover various aspects of my magazine preparation. I took photographs in different light setting, each catering to a different background or environment, Illustrator has been a software that I have been exploring and getting quite comfortable with  especially with my laptop at home which is equipped with a stylus !  With the help of the brush tool and ...

I finished the dinosaur and am going to use it in conjunction with my logo..

This a piece that I worked on illustrator with the idea of creating something only with squares

Size- Depending upon if the size of the content is bigger or the   size of the content is  smaller, the reader's eye gives that much relevance to the content. Color -Brighter colors catch the reader's eye first and darker colors after that.  Contrast -No matter how good or bad the content is there must always be a hierarchy of colors used with the important content being brighter that the less important content unless this distinct difference exists the content will appear cluttered in the reader 's mind.  Alignment -When a reader starts reading they expect content of the same genre/type to be segregated from other types of content.The position of the content in the layout is what matters and we will delve into it later in this article. Repetition - Repeat patterns can be used when aligning content as we can issue one design style for one kind of content and another for other types of content. Proximity -We use this when we want to segregate content and dep...

The trouble with an experiment is that first you have to conduct the experiment after which you have to try and photograph and capture the moment when the water is flowing through a tube or when a chemical is reacting. etc. The experiment was tested out by my grandfather and myself before the actual photo shoot for which my father also helped. So while I was photographing the experiment I had to figure out the timings to which my father and grandfather would start and finish the experiment. I also learned to adjust the lens to capture the photo and tried out different light and dark settings for enhancing the photos. I also took photographs of the different material required for the experiment with my background as grass. A previous attempt at conducting the experiment out in the open failed as Number 1 my set up was wrong and I could not think straight in afternoon sun Number 2 There were many insects around me and I could not stay still and focus for taking photographs.

 I want my magazine to be comfortably read, which is why most magazines add people/models . It is assumed that this allows the reader to connect with the magazine's ideas and buy more copies of the magazine if they celebrities or are popular. Although on the surface level this looks good it inevitably fails as the magazine is relying upon those people for it's promotion. Without them the magazine is not much, readers will soon realize this and the only readers the magazine is left with are the masses that want to see the celebrities face. Secondly when a magazine relies on the people who support it rather than its concept the core audience/target audience will distance themselves from it. Talking about he achievement, rather than the people who achieved it will improve the magazine as a whole. For a magazine to truly have a good life span a good concept/topic along with a layout that is easy for the eyes of the reader to follow is important. This has to be followed w...