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Today:
Using InDesign:
Lay out four stories and headlines on a single InDesign
page. Use five cols. tabloid size. Don’t worry about bumping heads. Layout:
1.
A one-column story, 1-24-4 Times New Roman.
2.
A two-column story, 2-36-2, Helvetica bold, with
a 1-18-2, TNR italic deck.
3.
A three-column story, 3-48-2, TNR
4.
A four-column story – you decide the headline
order, but use a different kind of headline (kicker, slammer or deck, for
example).
Use real type.
Use 10-point TNR for your body copy.
Experiment with the columns for the type.
For next time:
Your first story will be a news or “explainer” piece
(advance written in class Jan 23; story written in class Jan. 30). You will be
doing an interactive PDF infographic with your story, which you will do in
class a week from today. So on Monday I’ll have you do a “practice” infographic
in class. Your assignment for Monday: find a two or three examples of
infographics and write up a critique of them (several sentences on each). Use
your blog to do this, using embedded links to the examples, plus a headline on
your critique. Make it conversational. What is good/bad about the infographic?
What could be done better? What elements does it include? How does the text
work? Are the graphics easy to understand?
Finally, tell the reader what infographic you’re going to do
in class on Monday. You need to think about art, information, links and ease of
readership.
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