Magazine Cover – Klemens Koestler 9IGCSE Design Brief:
News Magazine = TIME Issue = the economic crash
Development Process: 1. The word ‘economic crash’ had me immediately thinking about Wall Street, the financial
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district of New York City. Therefore, in my opinion, if there is an economic crash, the markets would be falling in Wall Street. My main objective was to find/create an image that can be portrayed as the Wall Street crashing. Wall Street brought me to the idea of big glass buildings, so saying that Wall Street would crash, I would have the buildings collapse. Since big glass buildings can be portrayed differently in people’s opinion, I began to focus my idea more. The second idea Wall Street brought me to was money. Therefore, I decided to create a building out of money that was collapsing. I started looking into the basic design of the Time Magazine Cover and created the basic outline of it. To create my own ‘dollar building’, I researched on flickr and a single dollar note with creative commons. I used the lasso tool to cut out the single dollar note without the background and started piling the dollar notes on top of the other to create a side of the building. I did the same to another side, putting the dollars at an angle to portray that the building is falling. The roof was added and I created a black backgroynd behind the dollars to hide the gaps in between the dollar notes. I added debris to the bottom of the building, which usually rises up as a building collapses and took a screen shot of the final work to minimize the layers being used.
8. To highlight the image of the collapsing building, I created a spotlight on it. The spotlight was done be adding a new background layer and filling it black. Then, I used the ellipse tool to border the outside of the building and colored the ellipse white. To finish the sporlight, I created a blur on the edge between the black and white border using the gausian blur. 9. Instead of the cover just to focus on the economic crash, I wanted the audience to be alarmed by it, so in addition, I researched for a picture of a black silhouette crowd and changed their color from black to white and added it into the picture.
10. To finish the magazine cover, I added an appropriate title, the dtae it was released, and the times website.