Diary Entry #10 – creating my contents page

Diary Entry #10

I have now created my contents page draft on Photoshop. I found this a difficult page to create, as I had to focus especially on the page numbers of my magazine and make sure none were repeated or mentioned wrongly. I then had to find pictures I could use for some of the pages. On this page I have a title of ‘THIS WEEK...’ to make it obvious what this page will be discussing. I have five main sections on my contents page: features, news, plus, exclusives, reviews. This makes my magazine look busy and full of different types of stories, making my target audience feel they are getting value for their money.
I have also included a ‘Facebook’ section, which states that my magazine is now on Facebook. I feel this will make my magazine seem more in touch with modern technology; therefore will help to distribute it successfully. It makes my magazine seem more thought out and will help it to appeal more to a younger audience.
I have also included a section on ‘Subscription’. This implies that my magazine is successful enough to guarantee more issues, making it more appealing for the audience.

Diary Entry #9 – creating my front cover.

Diary Entry #9

This week I began to make my front cover on Photoshop. I started by colour ranging my image, and using the quick mask tool to effectively cut out my image, so it looks professional. I placed it to the right of my page, as I have put my sell lines on the bottom left of the page. I followed my colour scheme of red, grey, black and white. I used to spotlight tool to create a gradient grey-white background, so that it did not look too plain. My masthead dominates the page, but not quite as much as the main image as that overlaps it. But I used a splatter-like font to create a bold, graffiti style masthead. I chose to do this in the colour black as I feel it connotates success and sophistication.
For my main sell line “ALICE LIBERTY” I created 12 different sized black boxes, I then places large, bold, white letters on top of them. This gives the illusion of newspaper styled writing, as it looks as if they have been cut out separately and scattered across the page. I did this as it makes my front cover stand out from other magazine articles that use the same style font for their main sell line as their other sell lines.
Above my main sell line, I have placed a pull quote from my article in black: “If you play with fire, your going to get your fingers burnt.” I did this as I felt it would give my readers a taster on what my feature artist’s characteristics are like. I know a quote like this will appeal to my target audience, as they will have an interest in reading about rebellious music artists.

Contents Page Photoshop Draft

I generally stuck to the design I made for my magazine contents page. I wanted a lot of text to make my magazine seem worthy of its price. I added the Facebook feature, to imply i am thinking about modern forms of technology in a way to distribute my magazine.

CLASH word assosiation

CLASH’ Word Association

Double Page Spreads draft

Here is the first draft of my double page spreads, I didn't follow my original design, as the images spaced by text didn't conform to the general style of bold text i have decided to use for my magazine.