Women's weekly should hire us as page layout designers

In art we're learning how to create page layouts using knowledge and skills we learnt last term (leading lines, thumbnail sketches, etc). We we're put into groups and decided what aspect of school we were going to cover. My group chose theater but we later changed this to The Arts as it's more general and we can cover more.

First we looked at different page layouts to get an idea of what a layout needs and how to use things such as leading lines, fonts, font size, and color schemes to page our page stand out. After this we did a couple of thumbnail sketches to get an idea of what we want to possibly do. Then we learnt and mucked around on Adobe Illustrator to learn how it works and get a feel of it. We didn't take it to seriously as this was the first lesson on this unit and 1/3 of our group was away. Once we had our whole group together we went and looked at our thumbnail sketches as a group and picked one.


So far we've written about performing arts and visual arts at school. We have yet to figure out what font we want to use for our paragraphs and are still sorting through photos that we're going to use.

original plan

Our current page.

Reflection

Does our design reflect our thumbnail sketch?
Sort of. At the moment it does resemble it but we've change a few things (such as the space between boxes) but if you compared our current layout and the thumbnail sketch we chose, then they would look similar. So yes? I think?
Does the design reflect the feeling of your topic?
So far I think it sort of does. It's not quite finished so I don't know for sure, but so far I think the feeling is starting to be there.
Do you know where your leading lines are?
We're planning on tinting some of the photos different colors so hopefully we can use that to sort of create leading lines. Other then that we might need to look back on our design and change some things
Do you know what your focal point is?
We're trying to make our heading that or the picture that we'll be putting behind the heading. We haven't found a picture of the stage we like yet but we do have some lined up to try.
Have we played around with layering visuals
Yes. We were originally going to have our text over the stage but then we didn't like that. We do plane to have images overlapping on the text boxes and have a sort of collage of pictures with one main image + the title on the left page. This will probably end up changing but we'll see.
Have you figured out how to screenshot your work?
With some help, yes.
Is there something you want to learn how to do? Have you asked or googled how to?
At the moment, no, nothing comes to mind with something to learn in particular. As the term progresses though that might change.
How does this help your learning?
It shows that we can work as a group and know the steps to creating a page layout. It also shows that we can take what we have learnt and apply it to other projects.