Meeting 25/11/13

Issue's

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Target Audience

One issue which arose during meeting on the 25/11/13 was my audience of technology. At time of meeting I was solely going to focus on Apple only devices but having gone and looked at the publishing capabilities of the Adobe DPS I discovered that I could publish the magazine to a number of different platforms such as Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, Android and Kindle Fire devices. I discovered this a website named DPCI which lists many questions.

Which devices does the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite support?
The DPS App Builder enables customers to create custom viewer apps for iPad, iPhone, Android and Amazon Kindle Fire devices.

However, I looked on the Adobe FAQ's and discovered that I would need either the Adobe DPS Professional or Enterprise edition to allow publications to other platforms as the single edition only allows for iPad devices.

Is it possible to create publications for Android™ tablets with Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition?
No. Single Edition is only for iPad devices. However, Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition allow publication to the Android platform as well. Those two editions include Content Viewer for iPad, Content Viewer for Android, and Content Viewer for Desktop, so you can create content for iPad and all Android based tablets.

I will continue to design for these devices and ask whether the university has got the software I need or will help obtain it in the future. From this meeting I also realised the need to do some research for my audience by looking at the student population with these devices. This will help me get a better understanding of the audience/people who can use magazine.

Name of Magazine?

narrowed down to 

Now & Beyond
Hear & Now
Direction 18

Front cover Idea

While looking at existing magazines I had an idea for mine.


For a start I think i will only design it for landscape mode as i think they work better for content.
So with this in mind the idea is to have a grid of equal size boxes but with extra column obviously because of the size.
With this filled with video of students doing something such as holding up cards of there course. this happens at different times. then when all videos are on screen they hold a different shaped card but when put together may make the logo depending on what my name of the magazine is. I came up with this idea while watching a film( friend s with benefits) and something similar happens to reveal the logo. This would look good but all depends on the magazine name. But its an idea at this moment.

design layout to come:

Front cover examples

All magazines have a front cover. They are an important part as they have to be be interesting so it attracts customers. This is no different for interactive magazines.

Here are some examples of print and interactive magazines:

Hands on research

For the last couple of days I have been using existing magazine ranging from top gear to other college maagazines. I have also looked at an html5 example. When using it seems slow and clunky and it does not always do what you want it do to.

Looking at these examples give me ideas and what is essential. For instance it should have a front cover but also a page which shows how the user interacts with the magazine. so this means the magazine will feature many icons, so these must be easy to understand.

Logo design

Not able to come up with a logo design until a name is chosen.

Image & videos resolution for screen

Colour theory for screen