Progress on Contents

Progress

• I started off with just my masthead in the corner, similar to the front cover to keep the brand obvious, I then set out black lines across the page that are pretty much how I drew them in my layouts. After that was when I started inserting to content to my contents e.g. pictures, page numbers and article titles.

Here is how I cut around pictures to fit my borders

I then put in my main cover story picture, this is a slightly different one from the cover but clearly from the same shoot. I chose a more fun looking one, for the purpose of showing variety in my magazine and therefore appealing to more of a range of potential customers. I chose to make them overlap the borders to give the effect of standing out.

• However, I noticed the problem of Erin’s hair, on the last version, It was cut off because of where she was in the picture, so I used the clone tool to replicate her hair and make it look more natural.

• I added page numbers, all of the same font, size and colour, a clear red to keep with the colour scheme and make them easy to spot.

• After this, I filled a box with blue dots, to add the splash of blue to the page and change up the background a bit.

• I did this with a paint brush tool.

• I have also moved the place of this box from my layout because I felt that the two pictures below needed more space and this box was too overpowering in it’s original place.

• Here I made a BRIT awards ticket design to show what was on offer, using gold to show the expensiveness of the prize.

• I also blocked out the top box in red to fit with my drawn plan for my editor’s note to the reader. Again, this breaks up the background colours and separates the sections.

• I made my dear reader section with small fonts as that is what I have previously come across in other magazines.

• Keeping with the idea of colour blocking I put a black box around the ‘Dear Reader’ sign To make it stand out.

• In this section I gave a basic overview of what the magazine was about, this is pretty much what I wrote in my drawn plan.

• I then decided to extend my editor’s note and make the font even smaller, so I went into slightly more detail about the magazine.

• I also inserted a signature to show who the editor is and give a personal touch.

• I liked the idea of dotted backgrounds so I did it again behind the picture, I felt this was needed because the background looked slightly too blank at this point.

• I then added my own picture of Two Door Cinema Club and made it fit around my border ideas.

• I also added pictures I had of their Concert tickets and signed CD cover to show a prize giveaway.

• Here, I wrote the Exclusive Interview sign to attract the attention of the reader and make it sound worth reading. I put that bit I a large font, then changed the colour to black and smaller for the next bit of information, similar to other magazines I have scene and in newspapers. However, I made the band name stand out and stayed with the colour scheme.

• I then went even smaller for the detail and smaller again for a bit of extra information which is not as significant as the rest. I decided to include the feature of posters from the photo-shoot, and gave a few examples of them.

• I made a queries/suggestions box to show how my magazine would be easy to contact and gave all contact information below it. It means that the magazine is modern because it has adapted to social networking sites and the internet.

• Here, I have started to fill in the actual contents to the magazine, following what I have seen in other music magazines. Using the red for the section titles and black, smaller font for the sub-sections.

• I have only changed colours and sizes and kept the font the same to make it neater -this was a suggestion from someone in my front cover feedback.

• I also added a black box with some extra information about subscriptions as this is also a popular feature of a magazine.

• I then put in the review section in the contents, I made sure I spread everything out so that I could try to keep things on one line to make them easier to read.

• Although I could not do this for every line, I made it still clear enough to read.

• The I filled in my Rock & Roll section using the same principles of large, red fonts for intitialinformation, and black, smaller fonts for the more detailed information.

• Finally, I put in little ‘n the Cover’ signs. I did this because a lot of magazines do this and it makes it easier for the reader.

• This is because, a lot of people buy magazines because of what they see on the cover, and this is a quick way to find what they bought the magazine to see.

• I made them blue to give the blue splash that runs through my colour scheme.

• I also put in a ‘top tip’ sign to tell readers what was in the very small font. I did this in a different font to make it stand out.

• I have then tilted the ‘on the cover’ signs to make them stand out more and draw the reader’s eye to them.

• It also deciphers them from the actual contents even more than just being different colours.

Final task

• I had planned to put an album cover in my contents page of a band that I created.

• Here is how I created this album cover from 4 models.

• I first took each of the four pictures and took a quarter from each face.

• Then using resizing tools I fit them into similar sizes and cut out the backgrounds of the pictures.

• I then cropped the final image because the bottom right picture was longer than the bottom left.

One issue I had was that I would have preferred all of their skin tones to be similar but the top left model has a slightly redder face so I used the curve tool to change the lighting of that section and to fade the red colour so that he matched the other models.

I then used curves again to create a different filter effect of the picture making it look washed out but vibrant at the same time because the original image was fairly dull.

Feedback

• I made the text slightly smaller on my contents because I got audience feedback that said that it was too big.

• The feedback also said that the pictures maybe needed captions to show which picture matched which story.

• After I inserted the newly made album cover, I went over the feedback and adjusted what I was suggested to change.

• I put captions of my pictures and made the contents text smaller.