Composition, Part 4 (CC2, Week 10)

Orient your page in portrait format (vertical) draw your one inch image area border and neatly letter your name in the bottom right hand corner as usual. Divide the image area into four equal quadrants. Leave a half inch gutter between each quadrant.

Study these illustrations. Choose one.

In the top left hand quadrant, redraw the image you chose as a simplified thumbnail sketch with grey tone values.

Now imagine this image is the visual for a magazine cover. In the top right hand quadrant, add the magazine title. Using greeking, add a header, a footer, three story headlines and a UPC rectangle.

In the bottom left hand quadrant, redraw the composition. Use all the original elements but attempt to improve the composition.

In the bottom right hand quadrant, explain in writing and with diagrams why your improved composition work. Describe how you have applied the principles of composition studied over the last four weeks.