Exercise 16 Page layout

Take between 5 and 10 images from your archive on a single subject or theme then turn them into a picture story by doing the following:

·       Using the layouts above or any other published layouts that you’ve admired as a starting point, design your own pages to meet the needs of your selected photographs.  Design and make at least four different layouts.

·       Write a heading and some short introductory text to explain what the story is about.

·       Write a caption for each image.

Choose the fonts carefully and explain, in your learning log, the reasons for each choice of font.

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I started to create some pages based on a local annual steam fayre which I took last year.  Then on Sunday (June 23^rd) the Westland Motorcycle Club held its annual charity run which went from Lyme Regis to Weston-Super-Mare on antique motor bikes and side cars.  There must have been between 80-100 pre-1970s bikes and sidecars lined up along the sea front and people flock from the surrounding areas to wallow in nostalgia for a few moments in time.

This seemed an ideal opportunity to create some new, original pictures for this exercise.

Basic page layout

Once I had taken a sufficient number of images I sorted them into usable ones and also rans.  I saved the best ones into a folder and created an A3 page layout, in Photoshop, using column guides to assist in the layout.

I looked at various publications for the type and size fonts that they used and they seemed to use a sans-serif font for heading and sub-headings but had either serif or sans-serif fonts for body text.

I decided to stick with tried and tested Arial (sans-serif) for headings, sub-headings and captions and used Times New Roman (serif font) for the text.

Pages one and 2 layout :

Pages 3 and 4 layout:

Pages 5 and 6 layout:

I accept that if I had produced these images for a commissioned article, it would be very unlikely that I had control over the chosen images and layout of the pages.  Hopefully, the picture editor and page layout artist would ask my opinion but I would have to accept that control had passed into the hands of other people.