Project #1-Game Day Magazine

For my first project I wanted to create a magazine cover, similar to Sports Illustrated or game day magazine that would be handed out prior to the game.  Except I would be using pictures of MHS athleates as the focus.  I did some research about magazine covers and some good qualities that they have, and I want to try and include them into my project.  I also found some tutorials that would be interesting to include in my project.  This project doesn't have any real specifications because it is not being printed for anybody it is more of a warm up project.  However, I did make it a traditional magazine cover size: 8.5x11 inches.  When first brainstorming I wanted it to look like the picture to the right.

Below are two of my sketches that I designed for the magazine.  I was only able to develop these sketches after attending a couple games to get pictures that I could use.  

My title is "Colonial Turf," which ties in the school mascot and the fact that it is the first year of the turf field.  I ended up taking 350+ pictures from the games I attended.  I then had to go through the pictures and find the best ones.  There were a few I really liked, so they were the ones that are on the sketches and on my computer versions.

Image once done with Photoshop

I then began to work on the computer and work in photoshop to start.  I edited and cropped the pictures, as well as created my film strips from a tutorial.  From this I actually decided to combine some qualities from both my sketches into my one computer version.  I tried to include parts of a tutorial for a sports poster, but I didn't like how it turned out so I took it out and made changes accordingly to the pictures.  I also followed a bar code tutorial to make the barcode in the bottom right hand corner.

Once finishing in photoshop, I saved my image and brought it into illustrator.  In illustrator, I added the text to my project, and it was basically done from there.  I didn't get any feedback from an outside source, but I did make revisions throughout from what I saw and like or didn't like about my project.  

In the end, I was pleased with how my project turned out-the final product is you see below.