The document discusses the process of designing a magazine cover and spreads for a Star Wars gaming magazine. It describes experimenting with different layouts, images, and design elements to make the magazine appealing to Star Wars fans. Several draft magazine covers and spreads are presented, showing the iterative process of refining the design with feedback. Legal issues around using copyrighted images without permission are also briefly addressed.

4. For my dps Inspiration I have used this grand theft
auto 5 spread which by the looks of it, it looks fan
made but I like the look of it as the font and the
way the pictures are presented are Rockstar's
style they like to include coloured borders to show
the importance of the image I think this is good
for my audience as it looks good with the
magazine genre and it will intrigue fans into
buying the product however this could work well
with a star wars magazine as the pictures and the
fonts would work with my magazine I'm also a fan
of the layout as its neatly packed and the way its
set is intriguing

13. These are several of the images I have chosen for my
dominant image I like these as they are heavily Star wars
related which is suspected for a Star wars game but these
show Some of the main characters which is expected in
the game I'm thinking about using a emperor palatine
picture as my front cover as it looks legit and professional
and could really drag star wars fans in i will have to give
credit to the creator of this image for using it as I do not
own the rights. For my primary images I will take a picture
of the Battlefront 2 case and maybe the new Star Wars
Jedi fallen order front cover I will also possibly even show
someone playing the games. I will include a few sub
images about other games maybe red dead or Battlefield
5, as other gaming magazines tend to this which will be
going with codes and conventions. There are many legal
issues when using other creators content as its copyright
and this could result in legal action if you don’t have the
proper permission.
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polygon.com

14. I believe that this layout will work for my magazine as it can be compared to my
sci fi genre of star wars as they can be lots of pros to this adding star wars
colours in as my magazine is heavily based on star wars

15. Primary Images

17. Production Log

18. This is my first step after using the clone tool on Photoshop to blend in
the the ps4 case and the background of the cover I have done this
because I think it looks better with the background blending in into the
cover my next steps is take off the red sticker.

19. Here is my front cover attempt number 1 I have used a stroke tool on title to get the
title with the border I went for the look of lightsabers as my magazine is about star
wars

20. Here I have added my masthead and added a
stroke effect and inner glow to it again to give
the look of clashing lightsabers I gave them
precise colours blue and purple (Mace Windu and
ObiWans lightsaber colours as well as red for
DarthVader's/Emperor palpatines)

21. Here I added more sell lines using the
text tool and added a stroke to them
so they pop out and look appealing to
the eye this also looks more
professional on my magazine.

22. Again I have experimented with my front cover again I have
altered my sell lines by increasing the font size and
changing the colours to catch the viewers eye I have also
added the issue number and date to show the
professionalism of the magazine and to make it look more
appealing

23. Here I have experimented again but added the price on I
have done the price in dollars because believe it looks
better to the magazine many popular star wars
magazines are exclusive to the us. I have not added a
barcode as I am arguing that my barcode will be on the
back of the magazine as I believe its more appealing
having it o the back than placing one on the front

24. Here is my DPS experimentation here I have added my
review talking about the game I'm doing Jedi fallen order
and I have used the text tool and altered fro my title by
changing the colours to red and orange this is because the
lightsaber you can get is a orange one in the game you
fight sith lords which they use red lightsabers this again can
be appealing to star wars fans .
Here I took a u turn on the article because originally I as
going to be writing about star wars battlefront 2 but I
changed my mind as I believed that doing Jedi fallen order
would be more beneficial as it’s a more modern coming out
in November of 2019 where battlefront 2 came out in
November of 2017 I think that Jedi fallen is still very
relevant in a lot of Star Wars fans mind as some have just
started to play or some have just finished playing some
may be revisiting it after completing it once or twice
already .

25. Here is my 2nd experiment of the magazine cover I
have added a star destroyer from the star wars films
into my dps as I think it will look more interesting and
it matches with my article as my writing a review
about the new star wars game so I'm trying to relate
to my audience I achieved the star destroyer effect by
using the eraser tool to get rid of the transparent
background and the quick selection tool to make sure
I didn't miss many white spots around the edges.

26. Here is my dps I have added some gameplay pictures in
this is going with codes and conventions as many gaming
magazines include gameplay screenshots in this helps
harness potential buyers.

27. Here I have added a stroke to my picture of
boba and added a stroke on it and lowed the
opacity so its dim I have added the drop cap as
well this goes with codes and convention of a
dps as most dps have these it makes the
article look more professional I have added the
game case as this is generating more

28. I used the spot healing brush to remove the thumb however this impacted the
pegi 16 in the corner so this had to removed I also used the clone stamp to
remove the sticker outline on the right hand side and to also blend in the blue
banner where a sticker had previously been I used the clone tool to remove the
black box in the left hand side.

29. Masthead
Date
Sell line
Title
Pull quote
Sell line
Issue Number Price