Magazine Cover turn-in instructions AND REFLECTION - due TODAY! - posted 3/11 - Minor (1st cover), MAJOR (2nd cover)

Your Magazine Cover MUST include the following:

You will need to complete the following:

A. Magazine name

Think carefully about the font you use

You may not use the name of a real magazine (except on accident) - so please get creative!!

B. At least three and up to 6-7 teasers (Cover lines/headlines) for secondary stories. (Be creative and write ones that go with your magazine title).

C. Price

D. Date

E. Bar Code

Think about:

Scale - how big things are
Proportion - how big things are in relationship to others
Colors - be selective, 3 or 4 colors max, pull some colors from the images themselves
Placement of all elements (where should those things go) - should the price be located right in the middle of the image? Where do bar codes go and how big should they be? Dates? Use your sample images.
Font readability - pick good, legible fonts
Creativity - did you make text work better by creating multiple boxes for a single headline? Do you pick a font package? How well did you match your image up with your title and teasers (cover lines/headlines) and other elements?
Is it smart to put a box around any text? Look at examples

You can turn in your magazine covers at anytime today. I should have two of them from you. ONE OF THEM must have a cutout or a text overlap. 

Here is how you turn them in. You must follow these directions carefully and do this correctly.

Your Magazine Cover Projects (TWO OF THEM) are due at the end of the period. Here is how you should turn them in:

1. In the upper right hand corner of Canva, click the SHARE button:

2. Find the DOWNLOAD option, click the triangle to the right:

3. Increase the size of the PNG, by moving the slider to 2.75:

4. CLICK DOWNLOAD and wait until it appears in your Download folder:

5. Move the file to your desktop, and put it on your Google Site on a new subpage called Magazine Covers. DO NOT DRAG IT ONTO THE PAGE. Use the DOWNLOAD Option. I need to see these a little larger. To do this, on the new subpage, select IMAGES and UPLOAD:

6. You will need to show the computer where you saved the file when you use the UPLOAD function, but that will place the image at a larger size so I can see your work.

7.  REFLECTION - answer these below your magazine covers

1. What aspects of your magazine covers turned out well? Explain your answer.

2. What aspects of your magazine covers didn't turn out as well as you hoped? Explain your answer.

3. Explain the parts of the project, as a whole, that were easier to complete?

4. Explain what parts of the project, as a whole, were more difficult to complete?

5. How would you rate the Canva program in terms of ease of use?

6. Did you use any other programs or websites to complete your task? Please list them and what you used them to do.

7. If you could do your project again, what would you change or do again?

8. On a scale of 1-10 how much did you enjoy this project? Explain your answer and what you would recommend the teacher do to make the project better for future students

Once you have both images on your Google Site and COMPLETED THE REFLECTION, you are done with this project. Next time I see you, we will be creating a Movie Poster. It will be very similar and I think you will like the project.