Double Page Spread Draft

Draft Contents Page

Front Cover Draft

Contents Page Step By Step

I used the shape tool to produce the two large circles that i also used for my double page spread showing continuity and recognition. I also used the paint bucket tool and eye dropper tool to chose the correct color and fill in the circles. 

This is the finished product of my contents page when everything was put into place and positioned in the correct way.

I used the front cover image and saved it as a picture opened up  anew tab and dragged the image onto my contents page making it smaller and slightly on a side. I added arrows using the shape tool and filled them black whilst adding page numbers with the text tool to direct the audience inside the magazine to the different pages.

I stuck to conventions of real media products and used the heading inside this month using the text tool whilst also adding page numbers and stories to the section. I looked at other pop music magazines for inspirations when creating my stories.

I added a promotional section with a one pound subscription inside my magazine using the text tool. I produced a page number so the audience know where to look in the magazine for the contents page. I added the website name to the page as i have on each one of the three products.

I included a special features section using the text tool to create the text and added the images that i had previously taken at the festival when i visited in the summer of 2013 putting them on an angle and organising them effectively.

I again used forms and conventions of real media products and created a charts celebrity section and charts you section. Using the text tool i added stories and page numbers directing the audience to the correct pages. I used the eye dropper tool to make sure the text was the same color contentiously throughout the three products.

I called the contents page contents and made the text large and bold so that it stands out to the audience. I used the same color scheme throughout making the text the same green as the text on the other pages.

I separated the text sections using the shape tool and adding lines to make boxes so that it stood out and was clear to the reader which text belonged to which section of writing.

I added an editors section like in most pop music magazines with an image of me that i cut around using the magnetic lasso tool and added text with the text tool to form a message from the editor. I changed the levels of the image to make it stand out and add life to the image.

I used social media relating to my target audience and pop genre taking images from Google images and cutting around then using the eraser tool. I used the move tool to place them at the position that i wanted them to be at.

I used a conventional style and layout of my contents page placing the masthead at the top of the page and the message from the editor at the bottom left hand corner. I p;laced the two large dots behind everything else in the background bringing color to my contents page.

Double Page Spread Step By Step

I used the shape drawing tool to create two large circles as well as using the color tool to fill the shapes making them red and blue to match the continuous color scheme.

I took the image of Leah up against the white background in the green screen room at college. I used the quick selection tool to outline the edge of Leah and cut her out so that i could add her to a plain white background.

I used the text tool to create the text featured in the picture above. I stuck with the color scheme making the main heading blue and the sub heading black. I experimented with different fonts and decided which ones i liked the most keeping the same fonts again throughout my coursework.

When i first cut Leah out with the quick selection tool it took off a piece of her arm that i wanted to keep. I used the blur tool to bled in the skin on her arm that was already there. When i took the image that i decided to use for my double page spread Leah had a hair bobble around her wrist. I decided that i didn't want this in the picture therefore i used a copy and paste tool to copy the color of her skin and the paint tool to go over her arm and replace the color on her arm. The picture above is the before and after effects of using these tools.

I saved the final product as an image from Photoshop and added it as a background to publisher to add the final text. Using Microsoft publisher it made it easy to create a drop cap as well columns. It also allowed me to add a pull quote in the middle of the text sticking to conventional existing magazine ideas.

I put a page number and the charts website address in the bottom right hand corner of the double page spread. I used the color black to make it stand out and be plain and simple. The website address is on every page that i have created for recognition of the magazine.

Front Cover Step By Step

I decided on the name of my music magazine through audience research. From the feedback i received i chose to make the name of my music magazine 'charts'. I think this name fits well with then pop genre and fonts that i liked. The final font is called 'copperplate gothic bold'. I liked this style of text because it is bold and stand out to the audience clearly. I used the text tool to make the text and the color, size and font tools to adapt the text to how i wanted it to be for the final outcome.

I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out Leah from the white background so that i was able to place her wherever i wanted on the front cover of the magazine. I also used the rubber tool and the blur tool to make changes to the image after i had originally roughly cut it out. I also changed the color levels for the image to make Leah brighter and add effects to the picture that weren't there before.

I got the bar code for the bottom left of the front cover from Google images. I used the box eraser tool to get rid of the rest of the white around the bar code so that other things including images and text could be placed around it. I opened the three images separately down the side of the front cover in another Photoshop[ file and one by one dragged them onto the front cover file. I used the edit and transform tool to scale the pictures and make them the size that i wanted them to be. I also used layer style and stroke to add the box color effect around each picture highlighting them and making them stand out.

I used the text tool to create the heading for the main story line connecting with the image on the front cover. The chosen text style that i used is called 'trajan pro'. I wanted the font of the name of the magazine to be different to the font of the headings and sub headings on the front cover. I used the layer effect stroke to add a white shadow effect around the writing making it different to the other text.

For the subheadings and story lines included on the front cover i used a range of tools. I used the insert text tool to make the text then i used the  transformation and scale tool to make the texts different sizes on the page. I also changed the color of the texts making them all different but sticking to a clear color scheme which is blue, red, black and white. I used different fonts including 'trajan pro', 'copperplate gothic bold, and 'britannic bold'.

I included a banner across the bottom left corner of the front cover pop music magazine to draw the audience's attention to it. I used the shape tool to make a rectangle and filled it the color red. I then used the edit and transform tool to rotate the shape so that it went across the corner of the page. I inserted the text normally at first then i used the gradient tool to make the text have the effect that it has. I used the size tool at the top of Photoshop to make the text the exact size that i wanted it to be and arranged the text in the middle of the shape.

All of he above processes are place don different layers in Photoshop. This means that if i want to go back and change or edit something i can do that without changing whats next to, above, below, in front of or behind it. All of the layers fit together to make the final product.