2. Magazine Production
Step 1
I first of all inserted the masthead,
using the website ‘Dafont’ to print
screen the font of my title and
used the crop tool to cut it down to
size. There was difficulty fitting the
masthead behind the image so I
used the rubber tool on Photoshop
to erase any overlaying text
covering the models head. This
title stylistic of positioning text
behind the main focal point being
the musician is a common feature
of a music magazine as seen i n
kerrang and NME to give their
stars priority.
Step 2
Next I began adding
key shapes and a
puff/splash. I then
used the eraser tools
textured setting in
photoshop to tear
and texture the
shapes giving it the
grunge style often
typical conventions of
this rock genre of
music magazine. I
used bright primary
colours such as
yellow and red to
immediately draw
attention to both the
left and right hand
side of the cover
image, giving my sell
lines equal priority on
the page
3. Step 3
I then began to add text to
my image. I established my
main headline featuring
‘Harry Bloomfield’ in bright
text and bold font to convey
headline importance over
other sell lines and I have
used a army stencil to
conform to the genre stylistic
conventions of grunge for my
magazine. I then
downloaded other text from
DaFont.com and printed
featured stars on my skyline.
I finally added the rest of my
sell lines and the puff
advertisement text at the
bottom, as well as adding a
barcode to re establish the
layout conventions of my
magazine.
Step 4
For my second
to last final
touches I
added images
relating to
enclosed
featured
articles inside
and added my
poster ads for
my puff advert.
4. Final Image- Completed
Step 5
For my final touches I added another
shape of a stripe going across my
magazine to contain excess headline
information of Harry Bloomfields
interview and added my last sell line
being the magazines recommended
‘Top Ten’ picks linking to the images
around the sell line. I finished by
adding paint brush back paint strokes
behind the sell lines on the right to
further highlight their importance and
bring attention to all areas of the
image. For the overall stylistics of my
magazine I took inspiration for my
colour scheme and rugged features
from such music magazines as
Kerrang, NME and Q as all have
similar layout features.
