These are 3 pictures that I took of my friend, and wanted to use in my magazine

• This is the picture I decided to use on my contents page. I put it onto Photoshop to manipulate the image and make it suitable for my page and genre.

• This is my final image and all I did was remove the background on Photoshop using the magnetic lassoo tool.

• I began with thinking of a background design, but I thought the best thing to do is to get my background and enlarge it. My original logo was majority the colour black, however I thought that was too dark for how I wanted my content page it too look so I increased the contrast until I had an end result with a light grey and white finish.

• After I thought of the background and applied it, I needed to chose one of my main elements which was the picture and this is crucial as if this is wrong, it could jeopardies my overall end product.

• I took a few pictures of my friend and I requested her to wear a dress and big jewellery as I wanted to give her the prestige and rich look as if she was walking on the red carpet

• I placed her just above the ‘Explicit’ as if she was walking on it

• After I chose the background and picture, it was now time to add text and build up to the final result.

• I decided my colour scheme was going to be black and red as I think this suits my genre of modern rap of bold but simple colours and I also think the red looks good as the female in the pictures lips are red and this all ties in well.

• I put my ‘CONTENTS’ at the top of the page in size 60 and MS Reference sans serif also I made this bold. I done this to keep it big and obvious so when people flick to this page they automatically know it is the contents page as it is the first thing they should be able to see.

• Then I began to put all the elements that would be in the magazine e.g. ‘new releases’ I made these bold, size 36 and the font apple chancery, I chose this font as it is different and it gives a hint of elegance to the page, I made sure these was black to stand out against the grey and to not make it too colourful.

• As a design element I decided to put a ‘>’ after each subtitle to make it more interesting.

• I chose to keep the style simple by keeping all the text to the left of the picture

• This is my final contents page I am very pleased with it and feel that it suits the genre of my music magazine.

• The artist on my front cover and the artist who is the subject on my double page spread article is not pictured on my contents page.

• I have broken the convention by putting another artists on my contents page. I did this because I wanted to show that my magazine was about different elements such as music, fashion etc and my contents picture is fashion related.