MY FINAL FRONT COVER

Development of my Double Page Spread

At the top is my first attempt at my double page spread of my magazine, below it is my final double page spread of my magazine. After revising my first double page spread i decided to make changes to my double page spread to make it better. For example one of the changes was to te title, the title and subtitle below it went across the page and this does not follow codes and conventions of magzines. So all i did was move the title to the left so that it did not go over the crease in the middle of the page.

I moved the quotes that i had highlighted out of the text to various points in the text, so that the text was broken up, i did this because i didn't want there to be huge amounts of text with no breaks. To break up the text further i moved the smaller picture from the right hand side page to near the text on the left.

I also added a 'what you need to know' section which tells the audience a few bullet points as to bits of information on the band and tickets. It also gives a must see rating on the band.

Development of my Contents Page

At the top is my original attempt at my contents page, below it is my final contents page. I have revised my first attempt at my contents page and continued to make changes to it. For example, in my first attempt i have at the top of the page 'contents' as a title. I decided that this was too big, i then decided to bring the magazine name from the front cover onto my contents page, in the same position on the page. This allowed me to move the title 'contents' to the left of this and make it smaller.

Then i looked at the rest of my page and realised that at the bottom of the page there was a big space with nothing in it. This made the contents page look very top heavy and very unbalanced. So then i made each of my pictures bigger and shifted them to the right hand side of the page, this made the right hand side of them page filled.

The text then had to move, so i moved the text to the left hand side of the page and I made sure that the text took up most of the left hand side of the page so there was no big spaces. The subtitle 'features' didn't stand out much so to incorporate the colour scheme more i decided to change the font colour to yellow and put a red strip behind it which linked with the red border of the main picture.

Also i felt it was hard to determine which story went with which page on my features list, so I made two changes. One was to put the page number on the picture aswell, and the second thing i did was to move the text about the pictures as close to them as possible, coupled with this was the fact that the text about the pictures is bigger than the other text in 'features'.

Development of my Front Cover

At the top is my original attempt at my magazine front cover, my final front cover is below it. I then revised the front cover and began to make changes to it. For example, on my original front cover there is a big gap in the top right corner, which makes the whole of the front cover look unbalanced. So i took other bits of text from lower down on the page that didn't look very visible and put them in the top right hand corner. This made the magazine look better in two ways. Firstly the splash began to look more balanced and also the text became more visible. Above this text i put 'reviewed inside' this gave the text some meaning.

I then looked at my main subtitle in the middle of my front cover and in parts it didn't look very clear. So i then outlined it with red and it became more visible. I also then decided to change the angle the text was as it went against the angles of all the other text on the page. I then moved the main subtitle down the page aswell. I did this because the main part of the picture behind was covered by the it. To show even more of the picture i moved the 'go on tour' text to the right underneath the main subtitle. This allows the audience to see more of the guitar and the guitarists hand. Which is important, as it shows what my picture is portraying about the band.

Once i did this however, the middle of the splash became packed with all the text, and my other subtitles made it hard to see which part of text was with which other one. I also began to notice that at the bottom of my magazine there was lots of other unused space. So i moved my other subtitles down to the bottom of the page, and made them about the same size, to show that they are of equal importance, and not bigger than my main story. To show that these were still big features, i put an 'exclusive' heading above them.

Contents Page Plan

Double Page Spread Plan

Plan of Front Cover