Current Edition of Magazine

Front Cover

This is my final design of my front cover. I have made various changes from my initial draft such as changing the font within the masthead as I found that the previous font was too thin an did not succeed in standing out amongst the page to the target audience. I also changed other fonts on the page. such as the sub headings, making them bolder to stand out amongst the tag lines and various other text on the page. I used two separate fonts for the tag line and pull quote which support the main article heading as i believe this makes the cover more entertaining for the audience and gives the cover something different to look at than just a simple plain font. I also gave the artists names there brand logo as I believe this will make the article represented more recognisable and appealing to the audience.

I did further editing with the main image as I believed the edges were too sharp from where I had edited out the background and there were still small patches of the background showing. To solve this problem I decided to redo the background editing making sure I did not miss any out when erasing and using a smoother brush tool when erasing nearer to the subject.

Contents Page

This is the final draft I have created of my contents page. I only had to make minor changes from my first draft to this design as I believe the layout and all of the conventions were done fairly well and looked professional enough to appeal to the target audience. I did however add a page number, issue number and date as I believe this pulls the page together and fills any unwanted excess space without making the page look too cluttered.

I did however also edit the main image some more as I found that when I erased the background I had missed some patches just like the main image on the cover. Therefore I carried out the same method when erasing these patches and then smoothing out the edges on the subject.

Double Page Spread

This is the final draft of my double page spread. I made various changes to the design throughout different drafts by experimenting with the conventions on the page. I changed the look of the headline and tagline trying out a range of fonts and colours until I was satisfied with the light on dark method and a more basic, bolder font as I believe this would allow this specific text to stand out on the page and allow the audience to instantly see what the article is going to be about.

I also changed the location of the album promotion poster and the links to the magazines social media sites as when experimenting I found that they looked better in these new locations and would make it easier for the reader to be able to navigate around the pages. I had to reword the text about the social media sites as the initial wording of the text left a lot of excess space which would be inappropriate and make the pages look unprofessional.

I found that I had made a vary of grammatical and spelling errors within the body text of the interview when reading over my text and getting a peer to proof read what I had written.