Development diaryFront Cover

First of all I inserted my chosen background into Photoshop, I then inserted my magazine name as an image. As the magazine name was an image and not plain text, I had to crop out the background to remove the white space.

I cropped out the white background using the ‘magic wand tool’.

After selecting the text using this tool I then cut the selected text from the background and then deleted the background layer. This then left me with the magazine name.

I then chose another photo from my photo-shoot and cropped one of the models from the picture to use

on my front cover page. I cropped her from the picture using the ‘magnetic lasso tool’. Once cropping the model from the picture I inserted her onto my front cover and then using ‘free transform’ I adjusted her size to ensure she fit well on the page.

Once the model had been adjusted to the right size, I moved her to the left hand side of the page in order to leave room for my coverlines. This went against my plans from the mock-ups and the skeleton layouts but I felt that it would work best this way for my overall magazine front cover.

I then found an image online of a barcode to use for my magazine and adjusted it to fit. I decided to use the

same coverlines as used in my mock up front cover because I felt that they were still relevant to the genre of magazine and would fit well in the page. However I changed the name of one artist on the coverline to link the coverline to the main image and the bands double page spread feature.

I then added a strapline at the bottom of the page again using the same text found in my mock up pages as they relate to the features within this magazine.

The insert for the page is also similar to that found on my mock up, but for this insert I decided to use an exclamation mark at the end of ‘free’ so that the word stands out to the target reader, making them want to buy the magazine.

I included the date and issue number in the masthead of the page in order to convey to the genre conventions of magazines.

I also chose to include the price of the magazine next to the barcode so that it is easy for the target reader to find and it was where I included the price on my mockups.

Contents pageFor the masthead and the main body of text for my contents page, I decided to change my font because I believe that it looks a lot more like a font that would be common features found there.

I included a pull quote from a feature of the magazine in order to pull in the attention of the reader. This quote will help to draw the reader into reading that specific page.

I changed the spacing for this part of the text so that the text did not look too bunched together and to make it easier to read. This is important because if the text is difficult to read then the reader is less likely to read it.

The first image is the original image taken from my photo-shoot, the second image is the edited image from Photoshop, I chose to crop and edit the colouring of the photo in this way because the sepia effect was popular in my questionnaire and it is as convention of the folk genre. I chose to crop the image so that it would fit better in the space allocated for it on the page.

These are the Photoshop effects I used to change the original image to sepia. I chose to use this method because it allowed me to change the strength of the

sepia tone to ensure that it is right for my magazine.

This is the before and after editing of my smaller contents page image. I used a similar editing technique to my sepia image, but without the orange tone. I chose not to crop this image because I believe that it is framed well and shows the location of the image.

I chose to capitalize the listings of m magazine so that they stand out on the page. I also chose to make the page numbers alongside the listings slightly larger than the text and bolder to ensure that the reader knows what page each feature is on. I ensured that the listings were large enough to take up a lot of space on the page because it is the main feature of the page, so should not be overpowered by the other features within the page.

I chose to put the editors word and staff box within a coloured shape so that they both stand out against the white background of the page. I chose to make sure that the editors word box was quite large because it is the magazines first issue and it is a convention within the magazine genre.

Double Page Spread

This is one of my photos before and after editing, as my image was supposed to be of two people, not 3 I cropped one person out. In also boosted the colours within the image to make it stand out.

I put the title at the top of the page in order to conform to genre conventions and I made it bold and in a larger font size so that it stands out from the rest of the text.

I put my stand first at the beginning of the page so that the target audience knows what the article will be about and will know the author of the article from the by line underneath.

I made my drop cap larger as it is a typical magazine convention and it symbolizes the start of the article so that the audience knows where the article begins to draw in their attention.

I chose to use this a pull quote because it is a quote from an interview from the band and supports what is being said in the article, it also draws in the readers attention to the quote and draws them into reading the article and finding out why the artist said that.

This is my finished double page spread, I chose to have text on both pages as I believe that it allows for me to write more about the band rather than having one large picture taking up a whole page of the double page spread.