More Contents Progress...

Progress of Contents Page

This is the progress of my contents page....

Final Drafts of Front Cover

These are the final drafts of my front cover, I have decided to change the primary colours of my front cover so it looks more sophisticated and less childish...

This is my final draft,

I am going to change the colour scheme because it looks like the colours you see on a child's magazine.

Front Cover Progress...

This is the steps I made to make my front cover I decided that if I wanted to target a sophisticated, classy audience then I would need to change the front cover I had all ready made, my magazine is strongly linked to the Q magazine and if this magazine were to go into production then there may be a partnership, and iD would take the place of Q's young brother.

This is the original picture I started with, I used tools like:

Blur
The Magic Wand
The Quick Selection Tool
The Rubber
Spot Healing Tool

To edited the image I changed:

The brightness and contrast
The hue and saturation
I changed it into black and white
I used the curves tool
I also put some different filters on it to make it look bold and sophisticated

This is the image that I ended up with as the main image in my magazine.

I have added some of the basic conventions of a magazine for example I have put in the barcode with the issue number, price, month and the website.

I have put the masthead in and header and footer border in blue to encourage a house style for the magazine.

I have also put in the main story, the idea to have the writing of the artist's name came from the Q magazine featuring Paulo Nutini on the from cover. I liked that from cover because I found it quite personal and the idea of having the font in handwriting it gave of a diary feel suggesting that the magazine hold some personal gossip and also the absolute truth.












In this draft I noticed that I should put in a tagline to the magazine so I used 'The UK's Best Music Mag". By using terms like 'Mag' in my magazine gives my audience something to associate and identify with because that it the sort of language that my audience would use.

I have also changed the colour of my magazine cover line, so that it would stand out more.






















I have now added a callout to my magazine to make it more professional and add stories to make the reader interested in what is inside.

By using a callout it gives my front cover a fresh, crispy look. I also make the magazine stand out with bright colours and interesting shapes.



























In this draft I added more cover lines to my magazine, the font looks worn away, that it is ending, I have chosen this font because it suggest that something is coming to a close and as my magazine is a December Issue that idea ties in nicely as the year is coming to a close.

























I decided that my cover line did not stand out enough and didn't jump of the page and grab the readers attention.

In this issue I also changed the main cover line again to a golden colour box with what looks like black calligraphy, this has the connotations of rich, powerful and domineering and this is what my target audience aspire to be like.

The inspiration of this came from a Q magazine featuring Paul McCartney.

In this draft I decided to change the main cover line again because I wasn't sure whether the main story stood out enough, I have also changed the font to a more laid back type of handwriting because I don't know if the previous cover line was to formal and uptight, and that is not how I would want my reader feeling if they were to read my magazine.























The next to images are my possible final magazine cover with all the cover lines on:

Base of Contents

This is a mock up of what my contents page will look like I have taken inspiration from Q magazines contents page.

This is the contents page which gave me inspiration.

I like it because it has a simple but sophisticated layout.

I plan to also have a advertisment forsubscription of he magazine, this is seen a lot in music magazines.























I like this magazine contents as it is very striking and stands out, this is because of the colours.

All though I like this magazine it is clear that it is a student magazine and this is not what I am looking for, I want my magazine to look of a professional standard.



























In this magazine I like how the picture relate to the text on the left, I also like how they have split it into sections like regular and exclusive.




























I like this magazine because it has interesting graphics at the sides of the page and also I like how the stories are separated into sub headings like; cover story,features, people, life style ect.

A negative about this contents page is that it looks like a students also apart from the interesting swirls at the side there isn't much colour making it look a little dull.

The last one is my favortie it is very eye catching the main reason is because it looks proffesional also it has some great graphics. It also looks very modern.

I also like the very obvious and dominant colour scheme, I play to use a colour scheme through out my magazine.

Drafts and My Possible Final Front Cover

This is my magazine where I have improved the weaknesses on my final magazine for example I have put something in the top right hand corner to make it look less empty and more inviting. I have also improved how the callout of the left handside middle looks before it was boring but even though I have improved it a little bit I still don't think that it grabs the audiences attention enough.

I have also used the liquify tool to make the glasses look more interesting and also where I had taken the picture and used Mirror Aviator Glasses as a prop the glasses caught my reflection so you could see me in the glasses quite clearly and I felt like this gave off the wrong effect.I was also very unproffesional.

I have also added in a tagline/slogan at the top of the magzine above the masthead saying 'The UK's Best Mag' I have used slang such as 'Mag' because my audience is young and hip, and would talk like this so the would be able to identify with the magazine.

I also dislike the background that they magazine is on because it is dull in colour and the writting  doesn't stand out very well, this is a point which I have learn from the mistakes I made in my school magazine, the writing didn't stand out from the background therefore making my magazine look less proffesional.

This is near my what I want for my final front cover, I have used the gradient tool to make my background shape looklike the colour is changing also I changed the call out shape I used and I also changed the colour of the callout to make it stand out more.

Have also changed the distance between the line of 'This Years Top Tunes' so the lines look connected, more relevent to each other and less confusing.

This is my favorite design so far because everything is vibrant and appealing so my target audience would want to buy it.

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