Final Idea : How Did "The Eroica" Symphony No 5 Make You Feel?

Ok, So today I started to interview people about what emotions they felt after they listened to Eroica Symphony by Beethoven. My aim was to interview as many people as possible so that I could obtain a variety of responses that I could then record by eithar filming them or by taking some pics. I was able to get about twenty poeple to take part.....and even that turned out to be a bit of a mission. Some people just weren't interested as they thought I was trying to sell a product....or too get them to sign up to a charity or something ! However, Those that were willing were really co-operative and friendly. After moving about from place to place I decided that the best place was probably going to be around Soho/Covent Garden and the galleries. I just think people have more time for each other around there as lots of tourists often stop to watch the Public performances and to take a break etc. After finding someone that would take part I got them to listen to the Symphony. I then asked them to explain how they felt whilst listening to the track which I filmed. If they had some more time to spare afterwards, I asked them if they could choose one emotion to write down whilst I took a photo. I found the different responses really interesting as each person had something different to say. It also seemed that what they wrote and how they wrote it represented something about them. I think this clearly illustrates that people feeling's vary when they listen to Music. So what's up next?......Editing down the photo's and film clips by choosing which ones are the best for the presentation.

Here is the link to the "Eroica" Symphony No5:

"The Eroica", Symphony No5

Here is the link to a picture slideshow:

My Picture Slideshow

Here is the link some film clip's:

Movie_01.mov
Movie_02.html
Movie_03.html

Deconstructing the Moonlight Sonata On Garageband:

After viewing Rebbeca Horns sculpture " Concert For Anarchy" I was inspired by the way in which such an iconic instrument such as the Grand Piano can be deconstructed to an extent where its contextual meaning can be viewed in different ways. As Beethoven constructed many of his most famous on a Grand Piano I started to wonder if there was a way in which to deconstruct one of Beethoven's symphony to an extent whereby it could be appretiated in other ways. Beethoven had a unique method in composing many of his works by writing and constructing a composition for each instrument in seperate layes.....It would be interesting to see if this works out.

After searching the net for MIDI soundfile's I decided to choose to deconstruct the Moonlight Sonanta. This is one of Beethoven's most famous and emotionally driven pieces of work. I was inspired by the way in which Beethoven composed music in layers and wanted to represent this more evidently. So here's a screenshot taken when I was working in Garageband by seperating each layer individually which I woud then save and export as an MP3 file format. I had to originally work with MIDI files which is a shame for such a complex piece of music as the soundfiles aren't great for quality in comparison to MP3 files.

So here are the links to the finished files: There is one file of the original version and the others are the deconstructed layers.

Moonlight Sonata 01.mp3
Moonlight Sonata 02.mp3
Moonlight Sonata 03.mp3
Moonlight Sonata 04.mp3

Some Initial Outcome Ideas:

Ive started to become interested in the way in which Beethoven evoked a sense of emotion through his writing and the delivery of his performances. I find it interesting how poeple are emotionally affected by Beethoven's symphony's in different ways. Beethoven's intention was to interact and evoke the emotional senses of his audience during a performance.

After conducting my Research on Beethovens life I found out that during the Premiere of the Eroica Beethoven's his deafness was so bad that it resulted in him not being able to hear the applause of his own audience. As his disability worsened the only way poeple could communicate with the composer was by writing thing's down. I think it might be interesting to take this concept further and look into ways of representing music and how an audience feels about the music they are listening too in visual term's.

As music communicates different messages and emotions to different people I think it is will be important to interact with the audience by going outside and interviewing as many people as poss. I might be interesting to play them the Eroica Symphony by recording how people feel about the music today.

Beethoven and his Power to Evoke Emotion:

A picture showing Beethoven's audience felt different emotions whilst listening to him play one of his many Piano Cincerto's .

An Interesting Article:

Professor Robert Greenberg Writes:

"Beethoven possessed a unique gift for communication. He radiated an absolute directness that makes his music totally accessible. The sheer emotional power of his music is readily understood. His revolutionary compositional ideas are easily appreciated and his nine symphonies are among the greatest achievements of the human spirit. They were revolutionary on every level: harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, formal, dramatic, self-expressive, and emotional. Beethoven led the charge to a totally new era. He threw out the restraint of 18th-century classicism and ushered in romantic self-expression. His symphonic offspring were the first statesmen of this new, musical democracy."

I also came across some Beethoven quote's:

"My heart is full of many things.....There are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all"

" I wish you music to help with the burdens life, and to help you release your happiness to others"

" I have thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out: That is the reason why I compose"

The Dictionary Meaning of Emotion:

• An affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.

• Any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love, etc.

• Any strong agitation of the feelings actuated by experiencing love, hate, fear, etc., and usually accompanied by certain physiological changes, as increased heartbeat or respiration, and often overt manifestation, as crying or shaking.

• An instance of this.

• Something that causes such a reaction: The powerful emotion of a great symphony.

Beethoven and the 21st Century: Download Sales.

I came across an article on the net relating to the internet download sales of Beethoven's music which were recorded after the BBC played all of his complete symphonies during Beethoven week in June. The final figures realised by the BBC show that the complete Beethoven symphonies were downloaded from the website 1.4m times, with individual works downloaded between 89,000 and 220,000 times. After coming across this article I started to become interested in the ways in which Beethoven formed a direct relationship between his audience and the music he composed. This maybe an interesting area to research and develop ? When studying the statistics it is clear that Beethoven's music still remains popular indicating that his music has become a set of timeless masterpieces which still connect and communicate to different people in different ways. It would be interesting to investigate these stats further by collecting some primary research maybe through eithar a questionnaire or a set of interviews, It might even require finding out whether poeple still recognise his music when it is played to them and then filming thier answers or reactions, All I know is that it requires going out and interacting with the public......Im not sure quite how Im going to develop this just yet.

Here are the stats based on Beethoven's download sales.....Im suprised to find the Eroica (Symphony No 3) is in at No 8 considering this was one of his most recognisable work's, Its wasn't all that popular at the time of it's premiere but deos these stats prove that it seems to remain that way even today? :

Symphony No 7

185,718

Symphony No 1

164,662

Symphony No 9 (Choral)

157,822

Symphony No 2

154,496

Symphony No 8

148,553

Symphony No 5

139,905

Symphony No 4

108,958

Symphony No 3 (Eroica)

89,318

Total

1,369,893

Weblinks:

Here are some weblinks I found really useful throughout
my research into Beethoven, I will definately use these links for future referencing:

www.beethovenshair.ca
www.lvbeethoven.com
www.raptusassociation.org
www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de
www.madaboutbeethoven.com
www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethoven

Rebecca Horn's Concert For Anarchy, 1990:

Concert For Anarchy, 1990.

Painted wood, metal and electronic components
sculpture.

After visiting the Tate Modern I discovered this scultpture by Rebbecca Horn called "Concert For Anarchy". The Sculpture has a mechanism within the piano which is timed to go off every two to three minutes, thrusting the keys out of the keyboard in a cacophonous shudder. The keys, ordinarily the point of tactile contact with the instrument, fan disarmingly out into space. At the same time, the piano’s lid falls open to reveal the instrument’s harp-like interior, the strings reverberating at random. This unexpected, violent act is followed between one and two minutes later by a retraction as the lid closes and the keys slide back into place, tunelessly creaking as they go.

More on Beethoven's Loss of Hearing :


After researching into the loss of Beethoven's hearing I came across a number of quotes taken from Beethoven's letter's in which he described his own most inner thoughts and feelings relating to his developing illness. It is these letters which provide an insight into the area of his life that affected the work of the young composer the most. As his hearing loss progressively got worse as he aged he could no longer hear the audience's reception and thier applause at the premiere of some of his most famous work's such as at the opening of the Eroica (Symphony No3).

Beethoven expressed how he felt about the loss of his hearing in many of his letter's.

I found out that he often kept conversation books in which visitors would communicate thier thoughts through writing. Beethoven wanted to communicate his inner most feelings to his audience by expressing them through his compositions whereby his music became an outlet of his own emotions.

An extract taken from a letter that Ludwig van Beethoven sent his brothers Carl and Johann Beethoven, expressing his feelings about his experiences with his hearing loss.

• "If at times I tried to forget all this, oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing. Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, "Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf." Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed."

It is claimed that Beethoven suffered from tinnitus, In a letter he wrote in 1801 he complained:

• "My ears whistle and buzz continually, day and night...such a condition is trulyfrightful."

On June 29, 1801, he writes about the loss of his hearing to Dr. Franz Wegeler in Bonn:

• "My hearing has grown steadily worse for three years...I was often in despair. To give you some idea of my extraordinary deafness, I must tell you that in the the theater I am obliged to lean up close against the orchestra in order to understand the actors, and when a little way off I hear none of the high notes...Frequently,I can hear the sounds of a low conversation, but cannot make out the words" .

The Journey of Beethoven's Hair (In Brief):

A picture of Beethoven on his Deathbed. Many people paid the composer a last honour, when he was laid out in state - they took a lock of his hair as a souvenir. Afterwards, Beethoven's head was completely bald!!!

During this time Ferdinand Hillier snipped a lock of Beethovens hair as a keepsake which was treasured as a Hillier relic in Vienna for more than a century. The lock was then given to Danish doctor Kay Alexander Fremming who kept it throughout the war. When Fremming died, his daughter sent the lock of hair to Sotherby's for auction in 1994. It was then sent to America for Forensic Testing. It was discovered that Beethoven quite possibly died of lead poisoning due to the high lead content that the hair contained although this hasn't officially been proven.

The original lock of hair sold at auction seen here before its refurbishment in 1971.

Only several other locks of hair remain in the world. There are two locks of hair
on display in the Beethoven-Haus together with a certificate of authentication from the Viennese art expert Anton Gräffer.

Forensic Testing: An Examination taken from sample's of Beethoven hair revealed he may have died from lead poisoning.

Here are link's to some of Beethoven's most famous work's:

"The Eroica" Symphony No 5
"The FurElise"

Beethoven as a Composer:

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) :

Beethoven in 1820
Painted by Karl Stieler.

Born: December 17th, 1770. Bonn, Germany.
Died: 1827. Vienna, Austria.Ludwig Van Beethoven is considered to be one of the greatest and most radical Classical composer's from the Classical and throughout the Romantic period's. Throughout his years as a unique and highly creative composer and teacher. Beethoven gained a reputation of being a tormented musical genius after the deteriation of his own hearing. The composer continued to write his own music producing his most famous work's at this time. Today, Most of Beethoven's works still continue to inspire audiences and composer's around the world.

Beethoven's Family Tree:


Beethoven's Childhood:

18th Century Bonn where Beethoven spent his childhood.

Beethoven was born into middle class Flemish family and was one of seven children. Beethoven's first music teacher was his own father, A tenor singer, who recognised his son's creative talent. The financial suppport of his parent's enabled Beethoven to attend Organist lessons at a young age. Beethoven was introduced and taught by many leading composer's of the time. After being inspired by his tutor's Beethoven started to compose and perform some of his own music.Some Facts about Beethoven's Childhood:

• By the age of seven, Beethoven was advanced enough to compose and perform his own music.
• Beethoven's first piece of music "The piano trio's of Opus 1" was published by the age of twelve.
• Beethoven's mother had died at the age of 17 and for several years he brought up his two brothers on his own. His only financial income was through his payment as a violinist.
  

Beethoven moves to Vienna:

Beethoven in 1880.
Painted by Carl Traugott Riedel in Vienna.

Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 . It was here that Beethoven gained significant reputation for his unique approach to composing and teaching styles.

Beethoven's piano at his house in Vienna.
Here he composed some of his most famous composition's.
After the loss of hearing Beethoven played the piano less frequently.

In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna where he studied with renowned composer's such as Joseph Hydn. He quickly gained a reputation as a Piano Virtuoso, and more slowly as a composer. Beethoven continued to compose whilst working as a freelancer to generate income by selling many of his works. Beethoven earned his living partly from the sale and performance of his work, and partly from subsidies granted by various wealthy nobles who recognized his talent. The young composer wrote many of his works by emulating Mozart. However, He also explored new creative directions in his compositions. It was at this time he wrote many of his first and second symphonies, First of his six string quartet's, Piano concerto's and a dozen piano sonato's.

Beethoven and the Loss of Hearing:

Beethoven in 1801, Painted shortly after he started to lose his hearing. Beethoven became fustrated with his disability and attempted suicide.

Here is a sheet from one the Eroica , One of his most famous work's. Beethoven created some of his most famous works despite his disability.

In 1801, Beethoven's started to lose his hearing making it difficult for him to appretiate and compose his own music. It is believed Beethoven suffered from Tinnitus. Symptom's included a continuous tone that gradually got louder. The cause of Beethoven's deafness is unknown, but it has variously been attributed to syphilis and lead poisoning. Despite his disability he continued to develop his unique style of composing his work's. Although he didn't compose as much music than in his younger years, It was around this time that Beethoven's popularity with the contemporary public reached its peak. Beethoven's composition's were a success such as the Erioca Symphony in E Flat. He was soon universally regarded as the greatest of living creative composers.

Beethoven's hearing aids. The composer became ioncreasingly dependant on these whilst writing some of his most famous works.

The Eroica Symphony in E Flat:

The Eroica Symphony in E Flat was one of Beethoven's finest works even though he wrote it at a time when his hearing was fading quickly. Dedicated to Napolean, The Eroica was one of the first works of Beethoven's so-called "Middle period", or "Heroic Period", a time when Beethoven composed highly ambitious works, often heroic in tone. It was also one of Beethoven's longest pieces of music. This period of his career, Also known as "The Middle period" included work, the Eighth Symphonies, the string quartets 7-11, the Waldstien and Appassionata piano sonatas, the oper Fidelio, the violin concerto and many other compositions. During this time Beethoven earned his living partly from the sale and performance of his work, and partly from subsidies granted by various wealthy nobles who recognized his talent.

The Eroica Symphoney in E Flat, One of Beethoven's most famous works. It was also one of his longest lasting approx one hour in length.

Beethoven's Funeral:

Beethoven's funeral as depicted by Franz Stober. 20,ooo Viennese Citezans attended the funeral. There are memorials dedicated to Beethoven's life and work in Vienna and Bonn .

Beethoven died in 1827 after becoming bed ridden. It believed Beethoven's death was the result of many illnesses such as Syphilius and lead poisoning. Beethoven's funeral took place on March 29th, 1827. The funeral took place in Vienna where 20,000 Viennese citizens lined the streets to watch the procession. After Beethoven's funeral, A number of memorials were erected in Bonn and Vienna (below) in memory of Beethoven dedicated to his life and work's.

My Research Approach :
I visited the library to read up on his biography which provided useful as a starting piont to my research. I also searched the net to find some info relating to Beethoven's biography. After typing his name into google. The sheer number of sites dedicated to his life didn't suprise me. I already knew that Beethoven's popularity as a classical composer was immense. It would seem that all this info would inevitably make it easier for gathering research although I found that each site took a different approach to dealing with representing so much info. Some site's were more deatiled than others which seemed to provide almost "too much" detail into his life so I needed to edit down what I had researched and use the most appropriate info. The internet also provided a number of audio file's and picture's which helped place the research into a context. I have also found out that some of Beethoven's original manuscripts and composed work's are in the British Museum So I will prob's check these out aswell.

Hanna Werning: Animals and Flowers Wallpaper
















Just came across Hannah Werning's work and had to post it on my blog. I am inspired by the way in which she has built an illustration made from layers of intricate patterns and shapes found naturally in the forms of flowers and wildlife.

The Dover Bookshop, 18 Earlham Street, Covent Garden.


I visited the Dover Bookshop today as apart of my research. The store stocked a wide variety of illustration and pattern books which I browsed through for inspiration-Definately worth the visit.

Contemporary Clip- Art brief:

Just a note about Contemporary Clip-Art brief. The new project requires us to work on generating about 10 clip-art illustrations based on a variety of theme's so I decided to choose "Nature" as the theme of my choice. I think it's great that the appoach to this project is really broad where we can generate the images using a variety of media at any scale to produce the final outcome.

Part 3 Printed:

There were a few problems getting it printed as one of the colour printers wasn't working and could only produce non digital copies so I had to wait until it was fixed!. Anyway, Here are some pics of the A3 print out's of both the front cover and article. Dissapointed with the quality of the pics even though they were scanned in at 450 dpi. I feel the quality could have been better. Im pleased with the layout as I think the compositionworks well with the content.

After working on the layout I could finally start on the front cover. Many High Fashion Magazines often rely on one dominant image that graces the front cover of the magazine. Taking inspiration from this provided to be a problem. The image used for the front cove of Gun Mart wasn't the most stylish of images. After working on photoshop to increase its canvas size I then started to clone stamp the background to increse it before layering the text on top. I started to highlight the typefaces using white and orange in Baskerville Bold as the background was very dark. I also wanted to establish a visual link between the text and the background image.

I decided to work on the double page article by setting up and designing the intended layout before importing any content from Gun Mart magazine. After making various changes to the size of text and image boxes, I started to study various typefaces that would be visually effective in communicating the essence of sophistication and style. After researching various High Fashion magazines it was evident that less is most definately more, Many of which adopted a minimal approach. As a result from my research, I decided to use typefaces such as Baskerville and Minion Pro for many of the headings. I then started editing the Gun Mart content. I chose to use the subheading's "Quality assured" and Shooting Impressions" using Old Baskerville as the typeface. I decided to use this as the header for the main feature of the article as it seemed the most likely to be used in a high fashion publication. I then started to import the article and images. High Fashion magazines usually layout large articles of text over several pages. Therefore, After editing the article down to fit the text box I decided to continue the article across both pages to balance the composition and lead the eye across both pages. Working with the images proved to be the most difficult of tasks as many of them were of low quality. I decided to use the best quality ones and started to form a composition for each. I also added subtitles in red to form descriptions, add colour and visually link it with the article. Finally, I cropped the word "Shotguns" to link the article with the images. I am pleased with the result of the layout.

I found today really useful in the development of my ideas as I was able to show some of my research I had collected such as visuals etc. After having the oppurtunity to discuss and get some feedback about my current research I have decided to use the content of Gun Mart magazine as opposed to the Sun. Although High Fashion magazines rely heavily on images, After using many of the images fropm the Sun for part 2 of the project I noticed that using image sof such low res proved a problem. The highest quality images would have to be used in association with my ideas and therefore the Gun Mart content would be the best solution even though they arent the best quality either.

A Trip To My Local Newsagent.


Ive started to search for some inspiration by researching and making comparisons between the front cover and article layout's of current fashion magazines such as Vogue and I.D. So I went to my local newsagents and started to take some pics of various Fashion magazines so that I can use them for future reference.

I.D

Part 3: Initial Ideas

Although I have enjoyed working within a group I think part three is going to be interesting as it requires ius to work individually so Ive started to think about some ideas for part 3 of the project. After working with two low quality publications that both have a limited shelflife and are creatred on a budget I have started to think of ways in which I could estabish a contrast between them both by taking inspiration from high quality magazines such as high fashion and lifestyle magazines. I thought of developing this idea further and by taking content from eithar/or the publications which are primarily newsprint and place it within a sophistciated design inspired by the layout from glossy magazine's such as Vogue and Countrylife. I have started to take inspiration from the layout of these magazines and start to develop my ideas. I think this would evoke a new meaning to the publiations Image and text which I have previously been working on for part one and two of the project.

Here's the Sun Vs The Gun Front Cover :

Here is a pic of the finished front cover before it went to print. By using the Sun as the content for the front cover using the layout of Gun Mart the result is very convincing. After working with content and layout I have begun to appretiate how a successfully designed layout is an important factor in relation to the message being communicated effectively. I think the final result is a successful one mainly because we had put into practise what we had learnt from problems throughout part one. Although we came up agianst some problems througtout this part of the project we managed to solve them. Most of them were mainly relating to image quality and fonts as you can see from some of the images and text. Some of the images were of such low res (Probs beacuse of the newsprint they were printed on) we decided to edit them out and replace them with higher res ones. An example of this is when we used the original picture (10 Downing Street Door) from the Sun. It became so pixelated when enlarged that we had to find and use a higher res one from the internet. After I worked on it in photoshop the image was ready to be used. I think that this image works well considering the circumstances although it's a shame we couldn't find another pic in higher res so we could have stretched it to fit the whole cover without it pixellating. However, Despite a few setbacks I think the end result is a successful one.

....and here's a screen grab of the double page article.

Here is the final double page layout of Gun Mart with the Sun's content. This is now ready for printing. I think this has turned out really well and we are pleased with the result. We spent some time making decisions about where to place the headings, images and text within the layout whilst editing some of the Sun's content. I think we have represented the content in the Gun Mart's layout really well.

Now that we made the improvements for part one, We've now started on part two. We swapped the digital files for part one with group 3 and we got thier files. Group three were working on The Sun newspaper so we had to take thier content and place it within the layout for Gun mart mag although it was possible to edit images and text as much as we liked. We experienced a few problems in doing so such The Sun's low res quality pictures as they had been printed on newspaper. After importing them into the layout of Gun Mart we worked together to make some adjustments to form a realistic composition for both the article and front cover. Creating the front cover was a challenge as it realied heavily on image. Anastasia and I had to scout around on the net to find some better quality pictures such as 10 Downing street door (The best image to use for the front) which were then adjusted in photoshop. I think the layout for both the article and the front cover has worked really well, All that is left now is to get the versions printed for the crit on Tuesday.

Just a little Tweaking.

Today, We started to make improvements to our version of the copy even though we should have started work on the second part of the project. We had to work quickly and efficiently as we were delaying another group from working aswell as limiting our own time to work on ours. The first thing we started to work on was the images as this we thought this would yake the longest. New cans were made of the original version using 450 dpi and then imported into photoshop toi work on them. The new versions of the high res scans turned out o be the best to work from as it provided a detailed image from which to work from. As we working from a new scan we had to make new selections for the images to se in the layout.We used the eyedropper tool again but made sure that we chose the right colour this time , Comparing it with the original before using it in the layout. Next up....The fonts, We decided theat the only way would be to trace the logo in Illustrator and then apply the correct attributes to it. We knew this wasn't exactly live text but knew it would provide us with the best results.

Crit Results!

The crit didn't go aswell as we thought it may have done. To start with we had a few issues with getting the work printed although we did manage to get it done just in time for presentation. After the crit we spoke to Pete and Luke about the changes we would need to make in order to make our version of the copy more resolved. Most of the comments made we agreed with. It seemed the layout didn't turn out to be the main problem, Instead it was the fonts and image quality that needed more work. It was clear that our copy of the layout seemed to be the most accurate even though It was mostly the Fonts we used that let it down. We would have to reconsider how we are going to make work on this as the text has to be live, Maybe downloading off the wenb will be the oly possible solution. Image quality was another important factor that could be improved. The scan res hindered the quality of the final print out making the images slightly pixelated. We used these low quaility scans with the eyedropper tool to replace some of the colours which evidently proved to be wrong idea so we will need to work on that more. We decided to take a step back and to re-do the copy which would delay the second part of the project. We knew this was important as it enabled us to consider and work on what had been discussed and make improvements.

Just a quick note to show the final double page spread layout for the across pages 91 and 92 after it was printed. I think the layout in the double page spread has worked more successfully than the front cover as there weren't so many typefaces and images to copy. Most of the article's fonts were Franklin Gothic and the header's were Helvetica (Some of which were stretched). Although each of the changes were easy to make we had to think about making changes to the appropriate ones. I think the hardest task of the copying the layout was working with the justification, alignment and spacing of the typefaces which were most commonly found in the headers of the article. I think that working seperately on individual tasks isn't always the best method of getting the work done more efficiently as it was easy to forget who was allocated each task. Overall, I think we worked well as a group for this part of the project with good communication between us.

Copying the Double Page Spread in Indesign.

Here's to Finding Fonts....

Today was really productive as we worked together to use the files to work on the content for the layout. After exchanging the files Anastasia and I got to work on finding the fonts used for the front cover and article of the magazine. After spending ages sifting through Font book and not finding many of the typefaces that made a perfect match we came to a conclusion that most of the fonts were eithar commercial or that they had used a font such as Helvetica, stretched it and added drop shadows etc! We tried finding the typefaces and downoading them off the web but found most of them didn't even come close to the original ones and even those had a price tag attached to them. We decided that the only option would be to choose a typeface as close to the original as poss. Other probs included the scan quality of the images (150 dpi) which turned out to be a poor quality to work from when imported into photoshop. Although we came up against a few problems we worked together well to solve them.

Live Text:

Just to say that today I wrote up the article on the double page spread and saved the document as live text so that it could be imported into the Indesign layout (setup by Sam and James) to be worked on during Friday. Here's a screengrab showing the document setup in Micrsosoft Word before it was burned to disc.

The Indesign Layout For The Front Cover Of Gun Mart.

Copy-Remix-Create-Destroy !

Part One: So here's my very first blog entry....Bring it on!

Part One of the project requires us to work in groups where we have to recreate the copy of the front cover and a selected double page article from a selected magazine. So we were chosen Gun Mart Magazine! Not exactly the most exciting of magazine layouts. The magazine is a disposable monthly publication and is aimed at Gun enthusiasts. As a starting point of the project our group re-read the brief and discussed any potential problems we might experience and how we might solve them. The first thing we noticed was that many of the fonts used on the original seemed to be commercial fonts. This would probably make it difficult tracking them down off the web or finding another font to replace it. Other problems we found were that most of the images overlapped the text which meant that we would have to make scans, Import them into photoshop, make a selection and work on them indivdually. This may be time consuming so we decided to allocate each member of the group a task to work on and then eventually pull all the resources together to create the final copy of the cover and article.