Once opening my booklet this is the first thing the reader will see. It’s a quote from a blog by ‘The Minimalists’ who believe collecting DVDs is a waste of time, space and money. I believe this quote is suitable for my book as a lot of people collect DVDs and it is talked about in my booklet quite a bit.
I also noticed a trend amongst film posters of the last year and thought that the link between DVDs and films is direct enough to use the link to benefit the design of my work. Although I don;t want to just follow trends, in this case I feel the link is extremely subtle and possibly not very noticeable but I like it and I think visually it works well with the rest of my booklet considering how I’ve designed it.
The idea behind this graphic on the left of the spread is it reads ‘DVD vs VOD’, which stands for ‘video on demand’.
I thought this was suitable as the spread is on the statistics part of my research and a lot of the stats are to do with how well DVDs sell and how much they’re watched compared to online and digital content.
I took inspiration from the work I had researched earlier and I knew I wanted to experiment with pages for images only and type only, so in this case I sort of combined the two together.
To get to this idea played around with the layout and the format of it a bit first but these two were the strongest out of the designs. I asked around which of the two did people prefer and the majority said the one on the left. Like myself, they thought the other had slightly too much going on somehow, although it’s just one extra letter. I think the placement of it in the bottom corner plus the extra ‘S’ gives the impression it’s too squashed and cramped. Whereas the final one looks simple, clean and easy to read which is exactly what I wanted.
With my page to the right I took a lot of inspiration from one spread from Elephant Magazine. I really liked the fact the type has the effect it carries onto the next page, but it also does so for a reason, in this case the ‘W’ is the stating letter in the block of text.
I wanted to take this idea further for my spread so this is what I came up with. The concept behind it is the spread is for the facts area of my research, part of the requirements for the brief. So it initially reads ‘ The Facts’ but then on the second page of the spread the type reads ‘Act Now’. My intentions with this and the way I laid it out are I hope the reader starts at ‘The’, reads ‘Fact’, goes back over the the ‘S’ and then that sets them up to read the body text.
For the ‘Act Now’ page I first tried using the same font as the title but saw that for some reason it just didn’t look right; I changed the tracking and the placement of it numerous times but it wasn’t working. So I then used Bodoni (which is also used in the body text) and changed the tracking on that to give me the finished result. I think it works quite well and this is the page people like the most.
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