The document summarizes the steps taken to develop a contents page for a magazine in the style of 'Kerrang'. Key details include: - Adjusting a model image to give it a more professional appearance through editing blemishes, decreasing saturation, and increasing contrast. - Creating borders and shapes using drawing tools and adjusting shadows/highlights to add depth. - Finding suitable fonts from websites and the Photoshop selection and applying them consistently throughout the page. - Adding elements like an editor's note, band names, and article titles/fonts styled after 'Kerrang' to complete the layout.

1. Development of my Contents Page

2. Original Image The model is wearing punk styled clothes but her image remains feminine with her minimal makeup and pink and grey skirt. Her character combines some of the current female artists such as AvrilLavigne, Florence Welch and Hayley Williams. I did not want her to come across as a naive, very feminine singer, it would not match the content of my magazine which is styled on ‘Kerrang’, the one vital difference being it celebrates the female figure whereas ‘Kerrang’ is usually focussed on male artists. The graffiti wall background reflects a trash/rock style and is similar to many Blink_182 images. To begin with I duplicated the layer of my image to make it more adaptable. I used a combination of the clone and spot healing tool to cover any blemishes found on the model’s face. Then by decreasing the saturation by 40% and increasing the contrast by 55% I was able to give my image a more professional appearance. Finally I used the eraser tool to take away the colour of the yellow line shown in the above images, allowing the lower layers colour to come through and making it stand out above the rest of the image.

3. To create the contents layout I simply used the shape tool to fashion the borders and edited the shadows and highlighting of certain shapes to give them more depth. I used the website “’dafont.com’ to find the font for “contents”, the website had more variety of interesting magazine styled fonts that would be suitable for my product. The rest of the font from this page was taken from the Photoshop selection.

4. Original Image Similar to the adjustments of my contents image, I duplicated the layer, decreased the saturation and increased the contrast of the top layer and then used the eraser tool to remove the eyes of the top layer allowing the brighter eyes of the lower layer to be shown. The contrast of the eyes to the rest of the image is effective. The Editor’s note found in the top right corner along with the miniature cover is similar to the editor’s cover found in ‘Kerrang’ magazine. I fixed an image of “Jilly Talentless” in the space below the contents with a page number in a bold font, this is similar to the contents of “Kerrang” magazine. The names of my fictional bands I created by adjusting the names of real bands, e.g. Billy Talent- Jilly Talentless, Vampire Weekend- Werewolf Weekday.

5. To fill some of the space at the lower half of my main image I put the title of the ‘Parma Petit’ article in bolder more diverse fonts than any other heading on the contents. The font for “Parma Petit” was from the Photoshop selection. You will notice the font has an army, masculine look about it, I did this deliberately in order to go against the common views of female music artists, I wanted to show that though she is still feminine she has masculine qualities to show she is just as good as any male music artist. The “who’s that girl” font is taken from ‘dafont.com’, it has a scribbled, rushed, distorted quality that fits the style of the contents well. I created the black paint looking background with the paint-brush tool, this final finishing touch to the contents has a graffiti style reflecting the main background image.