Front Cover Idea

I have been thinking about what to put on the bottom right hand side of my magazine front cover, I did not want to put another feature as I feel the front cover would look boring and be overwhelmed with writing. So I decided to look around at magazines, particularly 'vibe' magazine as that is an R'n'B magazine that I have looked at quite a lot throughout making my magazine. I came across this magazine...

This is a front cover that I have shown earlier in my blog, but the thing that caught my eye on it was this; this seems as though it is a feature but styled differently, however as I do not want another feature I am thinking of doing a pug but in this style...

 

Contents

Here I am altering the brightness/contrast/radius of my photograph of the shirt and bag. I have done this because the two pictures of my models are bright and felt the picture of the shirt and bag was too dark and looked out of place. 

 



 Here I am using the rubber on paint.net to rub out some of the picture around the number due to the fact the page number '54' did not stand out enough.
In this screenshot I am using the rubber on paint.net to rub out the background of this photograph as you could clearly see there were sheets behind which looks unprofressional, I then coloured it back in white so it looks as though there is a white background.
 

Front cover

Today I have been working on my front cover; the last time I posted about my front cover, it looked like this...

Today I have added more writing on the left hand side, a web address and I have changed the price sign. The writing on the left hand side is about other stars that are featuring in the magazine, one being 'Drake' and the other being 'Rochelle'.

I chose to put 'Drake goes old school, because I find a lot of R'n'B fans, love the R'n'B classics; therefore this would be something that would catch there eye and perhaps makes them want to know  why or how.

I chose to put the feature 'Rochelle in all her Glory' because its something that would make my audience want to open the magazine. The word 'Glory' connotes to 'God' and being 'Glorious'; so my audience may think Rochelle is almost 'God-like' therefore would want to see what that feature is about.

CONTENTS

Today I am starting on my contents page, I have put the contents masthead in the corner of my contents page so the magazine links, and so my audience feel as though the magazine is continual rather than disorientated; I kept my font the same on the word 'contents' as the font used on my front cover for the same reason.

Once I had added my photograph in, I tried out a background that might add excitement to my contents rather than having it plain. This is one of the backgrounds I tried out; I realised I did not want a background behind my model as it looked odd on the contents page.

DPS



This is my finished double page spread, I have made the questions to the interview bold so it is obvious as to what part is the question and what part is the answer. I have uploaded this to my blog so it is clear as to where I am at with my work.

DPS - Second Half

This is a quote from my interview that I am using as a title for my interview, I decided to use this quote as for a celebrity to say those words would be intriguing and make my audience question as to what the artist means as being in the music business is a lot of hard work.

 I felt the quote looked quite plain and didn't stand out, so I decided to put a black background on it so it stands out more; once I had done this I liked it so this is something I will defiantly keep.

DPS - First Half

Today I am starting on my double page spread...

 

I thought the red eyes in this photograph made the photo look less professional as in magazines the photographs are perfect, so this is something I made sure I took out. I also coloured the lips in red like I did on my front page; this is to match her lips with the letter 'A' and to link the magazine together as the masthead is red and my model has red lips on the front cover.

 

 

 

 

I decided to play around with the 'A' in the background as it might look better if I edit it. The first thing I did was brighten the letter which softened the redness and made it stand out less; however when I put my model against it I did not like them together, the 'A' looked too soft and did not suite the dominant model.

The next thing I tried was making my model black and white and having the red 'A' in the background; I did not like this either as the red 'A' did not suite the black and white, and I much preferred my models skin tone being shown.