My Target Audience

Magazine Conventions

Double Page Spread

At first I put my writing to the right hand side but then decided to move my image as it was bright and stood out. I then moved my writing down and put a white line with a rough edge around it. To drop cap the A at the top and K in the article, I had to make them individual letters and put them near the text. I originally put a red bar across the bottom to put quote from the band in but when the image was moved it looked better just as decoration. 'New Chapter' was made by moving the characters 'ew' and 'hapter' closer together, making the 'N' and 'C' red and drawing the two white lines above with the red line through it.

Contents page

Looking back, I should have saved my process to get to this finish product but this what I did to get here. Firstly, I put my main image on the left hand side and added a little bit of black at the top of the page to create the illusion that the image finishes there, I did this because I wanted to follow the conventions of a Kerrang! magazine where they have this style but my image wasn't long enough. I then added the long red rectangle. As I wasn't able to put a rough edge on it, which is my house style, I added a second shape but with just the outline and placed it over top. In a typical Kerrang! magazine the line down the centre would be grey but I used red with a rough edge instead as I wanted to show a clear division. I then made the black text boxes, the red writing for the numbers and the articles in the magazine. I used an outline for the text around the editors section and made the competition section.  

Front cover

To make this image, I deleted the background and used 'Tint' on Picmonkey.com to make the females hair red. To do this I made the whole image tinted red and then erased everywhere but her hair to make her stand out. I also made the brightness higher.

I then used 'Instant alpha' to get rid of the white and make it so that I could put the image on my magazine front cover. 

Once, I added the picture to the black background, I put the Masthead to the back and covered the bottom of it with the main image. I then added a menu bar at the bottom to show what else is included in the magazine which has the shout out of 'Extra'. I added the barcode to make it would be sold in stores. I added the shout out 'Exclusive' and put other features around the main story but with small writing so they didn't stand out as much. The posters the side are to show there are additional features of the magazine like posters. Lastly, I put a burst at the top to attract the reader to see the competition. 

Final Magazine

Front Cover

 

Contents page

Double Page spread

Double page spread drafts

1st draft with unoriginal picture

 

The main image fills the whole page except the right hand side which is where I would put my article. The name 'New Chapter' is the band's name and the font is just a draft to see where it might go. The main colours in the picture are red, green and black where as my colour scheme is red black and white so I have made sure not to have green lights in my picture. The red bar is purely decorative and ties in the red with the black on the right.

 1st draft with original photo and change in layout

My main image fills most of the page but as I like the colour I have edited it to I might move it around to fill even more of the page. I plan to move the red and white line at the top to be inline with the 2nd white line, not have the text boxes as grey and move them to the bottom to make more room for the image. What I like about the page is the bands name at the top left and the red line across the page at the bottom.