2. Switching software
After my first draft did not give the desired finish I would have wished I decided it was time to head
back to InDesign. The software I had used to make my previous magazines for my AS work. This was
due to the feedback I received on my first draft and the fact that the finish as not as quality as I
wished it too be.
3. The first stage of creating my magazine was to insert the image, in
photoshop I added the grain that is seen in my movie poster and made the
image slightly lighter so it was more appealing to the eye of a magazine
reader.
4. The next stage was to insert a bar code with I did simply by getting one
royalty free of the internet and making it into a bit map so it could be
put onto my magazine front cover.
5. I then used the type tool and rectangle tool to
create the main title of the magazine. This was
done in the Bradley Hand Font and the
rectangle is red. These then were moved to the
right side of the magazine. While it may be the
convention to have titles on the left side I felt
for the image here this would not work and
purposefully went against the convention.
6. Using the text tool I wrote in the articles of the magazine, these
were in varying fonts and I changed the colour to white so that they
would contrast to the dark background of my central image.
7. I decided to do the article list in a bullet point form
which can be seen here. To create the bullet points I
simply used the ellipse tool and inserted them onto the
magazine front cover.
8. At first I thought of making the text white for ‘Live’ however when I
looked back at my research I realised that all the text was the same
colour on almost every movie magazine. For this reason I decided
instead of making it black I would use a drop shadow. This was done
using the effects tool and then giving the text a ‘drop shadow’.
9. Using the type tool and the Bradley hand font I inserted the subtext: ‘exclusive
movie insight’ beneath the masthead, in this way I hoped to assert the genre
more clearly.
