THE BEST OF THE BEST OF THE BEST SIR!

here i have finally chosen witch background image and foreground font(typography) as.

TITLE CARD.....

Here are some possible background images that I am considering that could be used as a background image in conjunction with the chosen typography that I have chosen earlier.

A TITLE IS EVERYTHING...

Here I have added a few possible title card possibilities.

Kress & Van Leeuwen

Kress & Van Leeuwen has carried out significant research on magazine and page composition. Here are some of the things they found.

The positioning of information on the page itself can convey meaning.

· Kress & Van Leeuwen (1996) examined double page spreads Australian women’s magazines. The found that the right pages were ‘dominated by large salient photographs from which the gaze of one or more women engages the gaze of the viewer’

· These pictures often showed women in unusual or contradictory roles with which the reader is invited to identify, such as a working woman doing a tough masculine job

· They concluded that the right page was the site for ‘key’ or new information.

· The page on the left was the ‘already given’: information which the reader is already likely to know (e.g. who the person is, the new film they are appearing in etc...)

Kress & Van Leeuwen proposes three principles of composition:

Ø Information value – the placement of elements, e.g. left and right, top and bottom, centre and margin, can endow them specific information value.

Ø Salience – the elements placed to attract the reader’s attention to different degrees, e.g. foreground or background, relative size, contrasts in colour, sharpness, etc.

Ø Farming – The presence or absence of farming devices (dividing or framing lines, which connect or discount elements, signifying that they belong or do not belong together.

LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION.....

In this first exaple print media text's feature article
i liked the fact that postioning of the the subjects and their body language and that they are shown in a direct mode of address










In this second example of print media text the features i liked were the fact that it is Black and white
It forces you to see the image rather than the colour. A low-light image of shadows can look like nothing
in a colour photograph but be a powerful picture in black and white. It also conveys remarkable purity of the action

In this example we can see the subject in ain direct mode of address that conotes that he is looking at somthing out of frame and i also liked the fact that he himself is positioned in the foreground above the tite to show that he is the cheif narrative focus