Easter Term/Holiday (Update)

For the next two will be Easter half-term and I'm unable to complete my double page due to the lack of Photoshop. When I get back to school, I will be able to finish the double page and complete it to some the developments and progress.

Magazine Development: Double Page Pt 1: Layout

1) Background

Create this simple background, I use the Gradient Tool" to make this could merge together. Also to make sure that I have used the right colour of pink but using the "Eyedropper Tool" to help get it from one of my pictures in my photos.

2) Image

I like that I have used this picture of my artist, who is looking right at the corner of my page. The reason for this is that it give me place for my title to be and make it look like she knows that I'm talking about her and her raising ing her music.

3) Title

I like how I have put my title in between 4 black as I thinks that it it to stand out and makes it more bigger to show her raise in fame. I put the word "meet" in a slight angle as I think it gives it a slight edge to it.

Double Page Spread Plans

To help me planned out before constructing my double page. I've look through my current 3 designs and I really like the second one. I think that when I start putting it together then it will look good. I'm still keep the first design in mind so that it have edit it then I can work from that.

Double Page Spread Research

These are some of the double page spread from other current music magazines. I made sure that I have a range of different double pages that I can clear see the styles and techniques.

I like this because I like the way that the editors have changes the way that they have change one of letter for each word. I think that it would catch their audience as it looks different and unique.

I think when constructing my double page spread, I need to something that this to make my double page more interesting.

With double spread, I like house that they have used a around of different picture. The reason for this is because I think that it helps explain to stories of their artist that they are interviewing living their moment.

For mine, I think that should maybe get my photo of my artist of them living their moment.

The element that grabs me the it the big letter "L" that is right in the middle of the article about her. This make the artist seem important and make the colour red associated with her.

When creating my double page, I think that I should have a colour that would be associated with my artist.

With their double page, they have add a little caption of their artist that they are interviewing.

With mine, I might that element so that can help me form a relationship with my audience about the new artist that they are going to be. 

Double Page Change

Previously, I was going to make my double page spread to be about artists that you should be on the look out in my pitch but I've change that idea and go with a interview style approach for my double spread instead.

Contents Page Comparison

This shows the clear differences and the improvements that I made to make sure that have made my contents page better that before. 

                                 First Edit                                                      Final Edit

I think that one of the improvement that makes my new contents page better that my old one is that you can clearly see the anchoring text around the the pages. By changing the colours of the background and changing the colours of the text make them stand against page. With my older background, I think that you lose the eye-catching part of it.

Another improvement that make my contents page stand out even more is that it looks less crowned and more organised. I realised that by looking at other contents pages, they have less write and have a smaller writing. So, I did the same thing and made sure that I put different font for my headers and then another font for my stories so that you can clear they that they are separate stories.

I change the way I put my page numbers because in my old contents page, I kept on repeating the same again with the "pg". By putting the number right at the front and in a different colour to make my audience know where the new stories are going to before they even know what the stories are going to be about. With the new way that I have done it gets it straight to the point on where everything is going to be instead leaving it to the end.

Magazine Development: Contents Page Pt 3: Development

After looking at my content page with my teacher and my classmates, I have realised that there is room for improvements to make my content page better than before.

1) Background

The reason why I changed the background because my class thought that it was just too much having two colour. So by using the "Gradient Tool", I made it only one colour form my previous background (which is the green) and let it fade out toward the ending. 

2) Taglines

My class found that the previous way that I did my listing of my content's stories were to crowed, so my teacher suggested that I should make it smaller and put my stories in a box to help organise them. By doing this it has allowed me to make more available for more ideas to be fit in. This as help make my contents page look less crowed and have a neater look. I change the colours of my numbers to make a clear to show that they are different stories for each stories.

3)Anchoring Text

Due to the colour change in the background, I have change some of the colours of my anchoring text. to keep with the theme colours of the green, white and pink, I made my artists names in pink to make them stand out against the fading green. Around the top left and bottom right corners of the page, I have added the page number and the title of my music magazine on there. I did this as it follows the same idea of other music magazine contents to have their symbol and page number on their contents pages. The "connect with us" is along the bottom along with the other social links and this make it look like other music magazine to have their in clear but small space.

4) Title

Change the title just to say "contents" because my audience already that it's about what's going to be inside due to the number on some of my stories. I changed the colour so that it can stand out more.