2. 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.
3. Here is how I cut around pictures to fit
my borders
4. 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.
5. • 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.
6. • 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.
7. • 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.
8. • 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.
9. • 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.
10. • 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.
11. • 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.
12. • 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.
13. • 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.
14. • 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.
15. • 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.
16. • The I filled in my Rock
& Roll section using
the same principles of
large, red fonts for
intitial
information, and
black, smaller fonts for
the more detailed
information.
17. • 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.
18. • 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.
19. 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.
20. • 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. • 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.
25.
26. • I took multiple images and wasn’t happy with the
quality of my original image because to please an
audience I have to have high quality pictures so that
they feel they are getting their money’s worth.
• So I chose an image and made it brighter using the
curves.
27. I then cropped
the picture, first
to a square
shape, then
realised I would
fill the space
better with a
rectangular
shape.
28. Here is how I put it into
my contents and
replaced it with the
original one I had.
I still quite liked the
signed merchandise I had
put in it because it
attracts the attention of
the audience.
29. So I kept the signed merchandise image but deleted the image of the
ticket because I felt it looked out of place and didn’t serve much
purpose. I also had to move the 36 to make it more clear so I put it in
the corner because that part of the image was not important and has
a solid dark background and therefore makes the number more
visible.
30. I felt I could stretch the album cover I had on my cover so I went back to
Photoshop and edited it again, this should make it look better on the
page.
31. Here I made the edges neater for the album
by erasing the jagged edges. This makes it
look more professional like a real album
cover.
I then, using the clone tool added to the left
arm to make the picture look more
symmetrical because it looked odd with one
round shoulder and once straight, cut off
one.
32. I also updated my
contents through
adding more pages
and adding page
numbers to make it
clearer to my audience
where to find exactly
what they want.
I added explanations
to each article and a
few extra articles
because a real
magazine would have
more than what I had
originally put.
I added a page about
social networking as
most modern
magazines with similar
audiences to mine
would use cross-media
convergence to get to
a wider audience.
