Ms.Gokturk

Journalism

Layout Assignment: The Profile (50 points)

Some Basic Requirements:

• Your layout must follow a chosen magazine exactly! Every single detail must be present and placed correctly. Use color, page numbers, dates, graphic placement, etc. Everything is a copy! You are a parrot! You can not think for yourself (yet). You work for this magazine and if it’s not perfect, you will be FIRED!!!! Your final product should resemble a page from your magazine as closely as possible. Assume there are no other articles on your page for our purposes.
• Hand in the magazine pages with your final layout.
• The ENTIRE 1000 revised profile is present. Be ever so careful that no words are cut off.
• Most likely, your font will print between 9-11. Print a sample as you start to make sure it looks like your magazine.
• Match your fonts.
• If your magazine is larger than our paper you can: “shrink” page to fit, use longer paper, or use a part of the page to emulate (not recommended for this exercise).
• ABSOLUTELY NO WHITE SPACE that is not designated on your original pages. Go beyond blue “layout lines” on program = almost to the end of the page. If you find yourself with white space, write more, use more photos, use graphics – do whatever it would take to allow you to keep your job.
• Use the same exact layout with graphics as your magazine; try to use two photos: one old & one new (before and today). Try to stick with the glue.
• Most magazines use captions under the photos, and the caption that fits directly, exactly under photo; bold or smaller font unless your magazine does it differently.
• Photos are placed in a visually appealing manner. Note the layout on your model.
• THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WHITE SPACE except for what your magazine calls for!
• A sub headline (tells more of the story); even if your magazine does not use one, please incorporate one. Your headline is a general title; the subheadline is your thesis/glue.
• Even if your magazine omits a byline, please make sure you have one.
• ABSOLUTLEY NO WHITE SPACE (white space is the devil) except for what your magazine calls for!
• Uses columns! Your magazine did! Make sure they match in number and width.