Since my last post I went home to my local area and took some pictures for my music magazine that would be suitable and match my ideas. Some photos are involved in a musical activity and some are pictures of a posing person for the contents and double pager article/ interview.
Magazine Front Cover Image
The picture of the left is a photo image of a the musician that I am going to interview. As you can see he is in the same standing position as my idea design and has the same props that i have drew: Guitar, Wrist bands and microphone. Plus I have shared my audience research from my questionnaire results (Q.3B). The audience want to see a photo shot of the action and not the person looking at the camera. Using this would attract more attention to the audience once my front cover is completed. Also I went to a concert a month before my taken photos and I took a few photos of the event. Related to music, I'm going to use this as my background for my front cover magazine.
Contents Page Images
Whilst I was taking photos of the main person in the magazine, i also took pictures of a local band that was practising in the same building. With these taken photos I can use them in my contents page to show imagery proof of the named bands that i have mentioned in my text.
Double Page Image
This photo image is a picture of the interviewed musician doing the same type of pose as my double page idea. Using a high angle shot, makes the musician look at the camera and makes him look smaller, also giving the audience that he is looking up at them and the audience is looking down at him.
Gareth - I need you to post your pages on your blog so I can mark them over the holiday - Ian
ReplyDeleteI'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)