Project #4 Post

From the beginning, I knew I wanted to art direct an article that had to do with celebrities. I sat down and began to think about my favorite celebrity. I have been passionate about Angelina Jolie for years so I figured it would be interesting to learn more about her. The article I chose focuses on how Angelina loves her children and wants to adopt more. Jolie claims her children are very special to her and make her feel like a woman.

However, finding pictures were quite difficult. Although there are numerous pictures of Angelina Jolie everywhere, I wanted a clear, clean picture for the cover that brought out all of Angelina’s beautiful features. After researching, I came across a great picture that really would be great for the cover because it would draw the reader’s attention right away. The background color that came with the picture also helped make the cover visually appealing. I chose the title “Craze” because it seemed like a title that would attract readers who love to learn about celebrities. For my first spread, I came across an image that I thought would make the reader want to read the article. The image is very intense and brings out Jolie’s eyes and makes it as if she is staring right at you. I chose “Into the Womb” as my title because Angelina loves adopting/having children. I made the “O” in womb huge and put the deck head inside of it because I thought it was a clever way of making it look like a womb. For the second spread, I wanted to make sure I included a picture of Angelina and some of her children. I could not find a picture that was visually appealing with all of her children so I just used the best image I could find. In terms of my sidebar, I decided to use an image of a map and show where each of Angelina’s kids are from. She loves having a diverse family so I thought that definitely was an interesting fact and a map was the best way to describe it.

I chose to use Garamond for my title. I thought it was simple, elegant, and visually appealing. For the cover line, I used Trajan Pro for Angelina Jolie because I wanted to emphasize that the article was about her and make it all capitalized. I then used Times for the rest of the cover line because it was simple and clear. For my title on the first spread, I used Bodoni SvtyTwo OS ITC TT because it was bold and clear. For the deck head, I used Helvetica because I wanted contrast. For my body text, I used Times as well. For the captions and sidebar, I used Helvetica. I chose all of these typefaces because I thought they all went well together and I did not want a typeface that was too crazy. I wanted typefaces that were clear and concise and visually appealing.

In terms of color, I chose to use white for the title. For the cover line, I wanted to change it up and bit and used white for Angelina Jolie, but then used the color of her lips for the rest of the cover line (R=237, G=212, and B=205). For the first spread, I used black to match her shirt. I thought using red for the deck head worked well with black. I continued to use black for the body text and then drop in red for an important quote and for the first letter of the article. For the sidebar I stuck with white because it went well with the background of the side bar. The background of my side bar was a sage green that matched the shirt of one of her children in the picture (R=141, G-150, B=133).

IMAGES:

COVER: fliiby.com/images/ _original/9b0ecbqugj.jpg-DPI=200

FIRST SPREAD: www.muskurahat.us/.../ angelina_jolie01.jpg DPI=150

SECOND SPREAD LEFT SIDE: www.babble.com/CS/blogs/ famecrawler/2007/09/1.. DPI=200

SECOND SPREAD RIGHT: pakalert.files.wordpress.com/ 2009/01/world-map= DPI 150