Designing DPS 4

I am going to base my second DPS on London. I want to make it quite a patriotic page. I am going to base the measurements on Marie Claire. I am not sure how I can link this up well, I had a few ideas about making a guide on good resturants, or good things to do, or shopping.
I am going to Buckingham Palace in the holidays so I am going to take photos of my day and see what type of article would make the images work. I am going to use my own images here and then use a found piece of text as I am going to do my next DPS with my own writing.

Here I am going to make the set up for Marie Claire InDeisign pages:

I am going to search the internet for articles that I could use, in preporation for the images that I want to take. I think that doing it this way around would work just as well then I have an aim for the images and I won't just be taking photos of any thing in hope that it will link well to an article. So I think that doing this will make the whole article work a lot better.

I have found an article about the Palace, and about the state room which I am going to see. I found it on a blog from the internet.

http://gardenofeaden.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/london-buckingham-palace.html

Photographs.

Here I am going to show the contact sheet of the photographs that I took whilst up in London. In the state room, which I went to visit, we couldn't take photographs unfortunately, so I have taken a selection of Photographs around the Palace. I am going to search the internet for another selection of articles that I could use. I have decided that I dont want to make them directly about the state rooms and more about the surrounding area, or possibly the changing of the guards or something along those lines. I am going to take time in reading these articles so that I can link it well to my photographs. I have chosen to find an article for this DPS as I feel that I don't know enough facts about that part of London, but I loved taking photos there which I think is just as important for the DPS.

Here are my contact sheets for the trip I had to London.

Now I have edited some of the images that I think would give me a little more inspiration to make the DPS. I have decided to go for a 'tourist' theme of images. Here are the images that I have edited:

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I have found an article online which I think fitted really well into the images that I have as the article that I found before, is all about the state rooms that I went to see, but unfortunately, photography wasn't allowed inside the palace, so therefore the article that I found before is no longer appropriate. I am going to go through this article and see if it can fit in well, as at the moment it seems like a guide rather than an article and maybe change some parts in order to fit better.

It is from this site: http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/life/index.php?fid=88&page=1

I have also thought of another idea that I had for this layout. I was looking through my photos and I really liked my image of the London bus. I tried looking online for an article that I could use to have this image and focus well on this and use text as the main eye catcher.

http://www.doubledecker-bus.com/history/

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Here I am going to show to beginnings of my designing for this DPS. I have decided to go for the London bus article. I think that I can enjoy this more and can relate to it better than doing a wide spread article on something that can only be explained in photographs.

I have chosen to go for the title 'Where to.. MISS?' as it reminds me of when a lady would jump onto the bus or a train in the times that these were around and the conductor would ask her journey in order to give her the appropriate ticket.

After looking on the internet I have had some ideas about combining this with the old style transport for London posters. I love the simplicity of them and I think that this would work perfectly. I might try and have a go at writing my own article for this, but firstly I think I will do some research into other articles that are about old style posters. I am going to combine my own imagery with found for this article as I think it would work just as well with my image of the London bus.

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I have started to look at found imagery of the Transport for London poster from a variety of times. Here I am going to show a few that I found that I think could be quite uselful and would go well with my work. I am going to show the information that comes with the posters, so there is information for me to look back on that I can write and relate to to for my article.

All of the following images are from : http://www.ltmcollection.org