Construction of My First Front Cover

I started off with just my image, I cropped and resized it to the shape of my front cover. I decided it looked good with out and editing.

I decided on a title and used one of the fonts that Photoshop have, I added an effect to the text to make it stand out.

After researching other real magazines I came up with the idea of the design and information at the bottom of the cover.

I came up with a band name, and from my double page spread article I took a quote that I thought would stand out and look good on the front cover.

I added more information signifiers using a simple font, and sticking to the colour scheme.

I added a bar code and put a small layer underneath to broaden it, I also added the price and date under the title and on the bar code

What I changed to my magazine front cover

• After finishing my magazine front cover I discovered that improvements could still be made, and so I began to change the look of my front cover once more.

• I cropped the background image further bring the reader closer into the image and making the image stand out more. More attention is paid to the people on the cover.

• I kept the same title font, name and effects as last time, but brought it down the page further, to make room for inside features at the top, it makes the page look neat and organised.

• I kept the same main story headline, and changed the position of it to coincide with keeping most features on the left hand side of the magazine. I changed the inside features of the magazine to link with the contents page.

Construction of My First Contents Page

To start off my contents page, I sized up the page to the appropriate measurements and decided on where my text and picture would go.

I added my contents title keeping to the same font, I added an effect of an outline on the to the contents title to make it stand out. I decided on

my contents photo, and I resized it to fit the layer I had set out for it to fit, again I did not edit this photo.

I inserted to layers, one for the text title and one for the page number of the image at the bottom of the page.

I decided on what would be in my magazine, and so added these into my contents to which page they would be on, I added a title for the story then underneath I described what the story was on.

I decided that the title to go in the white box layer would be ‘features’.

I wrote about what my main story was about, this was what the big picture is advertising.

To finish off I added a page number at the bottom and tidied up my spelling and positioning of things.

Final Contents Page• After reviewing my first draft of my

contents page I decided it needed some major changes so I set about refurbishing the page completely, and starting again with a whole new design.

• I changed the title of the contents page to something that stands out more and simply sounds and looks better. I decided to go for a black, white and blue colour scheme.

• Differently to my first draft of my contents page, I decided to include more features in the contents page, to make the page and the magazine on a whole look busy and full of things to read.

• I kept the photo from my first draft of my contents page, but added two new ones to give the contents more to it and to make it look fresh this resulted in making the magazine a bit more professional.

• I then added the list of things that feature in the magazine, complete with their small description and their page numbers.

• I also added bands included in the magazine into the ‘band index’ in alphabetical order with their page numbers.

• I added the descriptions to the images of what was being talked about in the story and then added the page numbers.

Construction of My Double Page Spread

I chose my picture for my double page spread and resized it to the correct size of my double page spread page. I also edited the photo my increasing the saturation to make the image sharper.

I chose what my title would be and wrote it out in capitals and then chose the colours according to the background setting.

I used the quote I used on the front cover, and added an effect to it to bring it off the page, I then got the idea to place it in the window of the background, because I thought it looked nice and worked well.

I added the text that I had previously written out especially for my double page spread.

To finish off I added the page numbers with a small logo to give my magazine individuality.

I added the by-line, naming the person who took the photos and who did the writing. I made up the name for one the writer.