TASK 9

Jess Britton

For my fanzine I decided that I needed to get a few images from the internet on

animal testing. When I looked up images on the subject, I found a lot of images that I

couldn’t use. These are the images that I decided to use because they conveyed the

message that I wanted to put across, without it being too distressing. I believe that

these three images will grab peoples attention, they are images that will provoke a

reaction and it will be the best three images to use. I will experiment with the layout of

my fanzine layout, and I will make sure that all the images help to produce a idea of

what the article is tying to say.

For my fanzine I looked at fonts from DaFont.com. I decided that it would be best to

use fonts that show how horrific the article is. I found these fonts, and I believe that

these are the best fonts that I could find that show the message I want to portray.

There were a lot of fonts that were quite similar, so these were just an example of what

I could use. I could use this for any writing that I want in bold, like a drop capital, the

headline and any words that I want people to be drawn to first. I will use these for the

page numbers and the date as well because I believe that if I use these fonts a lot then

it will seem more horrific. I believe that its best to use as many of the fonts that I chose

as possible, because it varies the look of the page and it would make people more

interested in what the page has to offer.

When I first made my flat plan I decided it would be best to make just a single page,

but after trying to put the article and the images on I decided that I couldn’t fit it all

on, so I decided to change and make a double page spread. These are the two different

flat plans that I made for the article. The first one is the one that I made for the single

page, and the second is the one I made for the double. I believe that if I was making a

layout for a broadsheet article I would be able to fit all the information that I wanted to

on the one page, but since I am able to lay out the information and the images the way

I wanted to I believe that a double page spread would be better. I decided that I

needed to make the layout of the double page spread different, so that the text works

around the images. I believe that overall the final flat plan that I made works, because

I would be able to get all the text in, as well as having a lot of free space for my

background image.

This is the development of my double page spread. I believe that by doing a double page spread the layout

works better. At first I tried to get all the information to work on a single page, but after moving stuff

around and trying out different layouts, I couldn’t make this work, so I decided that I needed to make it a

double. After deciding this I placed the article on the page. I kept changing the layout of this, and I finally

decided on putting the text to the sides and the bottom of the page, so that I could fit in an image at the

back. When I was deciding on an image for the background, I decided against using an image of an animal

being tested in a lab. I believe that this would be too much for a background and I believe that the image

that I chose works better, because it simply shows where the animals will be tested. At first I used another

image of the brands that test on animals, but I decided after looking at the product finished that I needed

at least one image of an animal being tested. I decided to place this at the bottom right side of the page

instead of the other image. I believe that this adds more to the finished product then the first image,

because it will attract more sympathy then the first. Overall I believe that I made my double page spread to

a professional standard because I used aspects like drop capitals and fonts to really get the message of my

article across. I believe that my use of images worked too because they show what the article is about

without being too distressing.