Second draft - double page spread of my music magazine - page two

This is the second draft of my double page spread (second of double page spread).

Like the first page, I changed the background colour to white so that the text would be a lot easier and clearer to read. 

I put the interview questions in red. I followed the colour scheme of the double page spread which I set as red, black and white so that it was consistent and more appealing throughout. I also wrote the questions in red so that it would be easier for the reader to distinguish the questions from the answers. 

Using the 'line' tool, I drew lines around the sides, top and bottom of the page. I made sure the lines weren't straight as I thought the page seemed a bit boring and needed something to make it look more attractive and appealing. 

In the centre of the page, I wrote another quote as I thought having two quotes on each page of the double page spread would draw the reader into reading it much more than just having a whole page full of writing. I know being a teenager having a whole page full of writing is really boring and uninteresting and would rather have something to look at so I added the quote to appear more attractive for the reader. Also so the quote could state the seriousness of the situation that the artist was in. 

Second draft - double page spread of my music magazine - page one

This is the first page of my double page spread (second draft). When I looked over my last draft of the double page spread I realised that I needed to change quite a lot about it.  

Firstly, I changed the background colour. I think that this was the most important thing to do as you couldn't read at all what the text was saying. This was because of the dark colour with another quite dark colour. I changed it to white because it is obviously a colour that you could read any other colour clearly on it. 

I kept the same picture and put it on the right hand side of the page. I wrote the next next to the picture with it 'hugging' going around the picture's shape. I think this looks more appealing compared to block text.

I also used a different quote at the top of my page, I did this so because this quote is quite funny but still very serious. I wanted it to really catch the readers attention and being kicked out of your 
own gig is obviously a very serious problem. 

I used the colour scheme red and black as I think these colours go really well together. Like the other pages, I used different fonts so that it wouldn't just be consistent, boring and too plain. I put 'LUKE CONFESSES' over the top of the picture because the reader will be dragged to the text as they are looking at the picture. Also, the word 'confesses' will hopefully draw the reader in because it is like they are being told a secret.

Second draft - contents page of my music magazine

This is the second draft of my contents page. It is quite obvious that I have changed a lot on this page. Originally, I liked my old contents page however I thought it was too plain and that not enough was on it. With the way I laid everything out on the other page, I couldn't fit any more information on it so I decided to try a new layout.

I kept the same picture of the artist in the top left hand corner as I feel like that's the most important page in the magazine, as It is about a double page spread on how music saved his life. On top of this picture, like on the front cover, I added a banner at the top of the picture with the title in it. I changed the location of the title as I thought that maybe people wouldn't notice it as much as they are so used to reading what's included on the page at the top. However, I do prefer it like this as I saved extra room because I made the title smaller because I knew it would be the first thing that people would read.

Underneath the main picture, I also added the advertisement shape again as I think that it would really appeal to the audience although I changed the text inside of it matching the front cover 'Win a chance to meet YOU ME AT SIX'. The picture underneath of the text is a picture of one of You Me At Six's concerts. However, I decided to write You Me At Six's initials to make the picture look more effective and bold for the reader, and also not everyone will know who the picture is of so won't be too sure who the competition is about.

The old background that I originally had, I changed to a plain white background as I have more going on in this page and didn't want it looking too cramped and confusing for the reader. I like the plain colour as it makes the text very much more easy and clear to read.

Second draft - front cover of my music magazine

This is the second draft of my front cover. On this cover, I didn't change too much about it.

I added some writing on the left of the page so it filled the blank part and so that it wouldn't look like much was involved within the magazine. I wrote 'Win a chance to meet YOU ME AT SIX'. As I know that You Me At Six is a popular pop punk/rock band I thought that it would draw the reader in and make them want to try for a chance to meet them. 

I also changed the quote that was on the front of the cover. I did this because the other quote didn't really match with the genre of the magazine. i thought it looked too 'soft' for a rock magazine, however as i'm mostly into rock I know that rock bands are really into their fans and try their hardest to talk to them. I also think that this quote would make the reader want to buy it and read the story because it's talking about them on the front cover and also 'saving' someone is very serious, obviously when you think of saving someone, you think that you saved them from death. So hopefully would really stand out and appeal to the fans and readers. In the text on the right, 'IN DEPTH INTERVIEW WITH LUKE HOOPER, HOW MUSIC SAVED HIS LIFE', originally I had put the page number on top, but looking at other magazines I have now realised that most of them don't include the number on the front page. I want my magazine to look as realistic as possible. 

I added the price as I didn't have it on the cover before. obviously the price is one of the most important things to have on any product and it should be clear for the reader so they know how much they're paying. I put this above the barcode as the barcode is usually scanned to read the price so someone would look their first. I also changed the cover by taking off the circle shape at the bottom. I did this because I didn't think the colour went well with the colour scheme of the colour and also it didn't look as realistic as I wanted it to.

Overall, I think that this front cover is a lot better than the last one. However, I am still noticing extra space on the page which I know could and should be filled with more about the magazine.

First draft - double page spread of my music magazine

This is my double page spread. On this page, I wanted to make it really different to the other pages that I created. This is because it is all about one person, so I wanted the colours and fonts to express what the person is like and what his story is about. 

I chose a black background because the story he is telling is very deep and moving as it is about a sad part of his life. To me, black represents sadness and seriousness and I wanted it to express to the readers, through the colour of the darkness what he was put through. 

However, the use of the dark colour black was to show the darkness in the persons life but the bright colours were put there in order to represent the goodness that came out of the story. I wanted to create a meaningful story and I think that the colours helped me to express it.

The title "Music saved my life" is a quote from the interview. I wanted to use a quote so that it would drag the reader in as they are being told just in the title about the seriousness of what happened to the artist. At first, I wrote the title in just a blue colour. I found that this didn't work because the colour of the background kind of hid the colour of the blue so I decided to make it look brighter and bolder by using the yellow colour too. I wanted to keep the blue colour so I just wrote the same title, in the same font but just in a different colour. When I was placing it, I moved it a bit further down than the original title and slightly further to the right of it too. I did this so that it looked bigger and better and also I thought it fit within the rock genre too. In the top left hand corner, I wrote 'R! REVEALS'. This was to introduce the story and to make it sound more serious and hopefully more eye grabbing for the reader. 

I placed the picture in the bottom left hand corner of the person bending down presenting a 'rock' symbol with his guitar. This was to show how in love with music he is. Scattered over the page, I drew music notes to show also how important music is to him. I placed the other pictures on the other page and on the side for just little snippets of his life now. I didn't crop him out of his bedroom because I wanted like a natural photo shoot with him in his own environment showing how he lives his life now. 

I wrote the main text in blue because it is quite a neutral colour and the other text on the second of two pages In white. I did this so the white would stand out as it is a quote to the readers from the person himself so I wanted to make it meaningful and bold. I put the persons name at the top of the second page in white as like a carry on from the page before.

Overall, I quite like these pages but like the other pages, I think that I can improve. I have noticed that it is not really clear to read the actual interview because of the colour, so maybe on my next draft I will change the colour of the background.  

First draft - contents page of my music magazine

This is my first draft of my contents page for my music magazine. I wanted my contents page to look quite simple but seem to have quite a lot of information on there. 

I wanted the title of the contents to be different and not like every other magazine e.g. at the top of the page, named 'contents' etc. So I decided to position my title at the bottom of the page. At first, I was worried that the reader may not pay attention to the title because of the position it's in so then I decided to change it. Before, it was at the bottom but in a more simple font and smaller text size so I changed my font into a very unique one and I made the text size a lot bigger, this way it seems to be the boldest part of the page so hopefully the audience would be drawn to that first.

I didn't want to have just a plain singular coloured background as I don't think it would look appealing or bold enough so I used a photo of textured paper. In photoshop, I edited this photo to give it the dark grey colour to follow the dark colour scheme of my magazine. I then wasn't sure of what colour text I should use. Firstly, I tried the same yellow colour which is on the front cover but it didn't match well with the grey so then secondly, I tried a dark red colour which seemed to match much better with the colour of the background. 

I decided to put the main picture in the top left corner of the page because I think it draws the most attention as when we read, we start from the left so the readers will see the picture and will force them to read the story. Underneath the main picture, I created another sort of advertisement shape like I did with the circle on the front cover. I did this to draw the audience in and to make them apply to win the free magazines. I wrote this in all different fonts and bright colours for it to stand out and appeal to the readers more.

The writing of the actual contents is all the same because I wanted a set font so it wouldn't look messy and 'all over the place'. I chose to write the page numbers in the dark red colour and what's on each page in black so it was easy to read and be sure what they mean. 

Like the first cover page, I still feel like I can improve on the contents page. I have noticed that I haven't put page numbers on the top of the pictures on the side so the readers will not know where to go to read them. I also think that this could have a bit more information on it to make it look a bit more appealing. However, I do like this and think it's good for my first draft.

First draft - front cover of my music magazine

This is the first draft of my front cover for my music magazine. When I was making this, I changed a lot of my ideas, such as using paint splatters on a plain white background for the actual background of my front cover. When I tried this, it didn't go particularly well as I thought it looked dull and that it didn't really 'fit' in with the type of magazine that I wanted to create.

After I tried the ideas that I originally thought, I searched through magazines and looked at the backgrounds used on them, as all the magazines I looked at were rock, I noticed most of them had a 'dark' look to them. I decided to take this on board and decided on using one of my ideas which was to  use a picture of the sky. On this picture, in photoshop I edited it to make the sky have a darker tint to it. Once I made it look darker, I used the gradient tool to fade it nearer the bottom. I did this as I wanted it to look faded towards the bottom to make it look more intriguing. For the title, I really wanted it to stand out and not look boring and unattractive so instead of just a normal text, I used the rubber tool to put lines through it so you could see the background through the title. I think this was affective and makes it look quite captivating. I chose to have the title in grey as I thought white wouldn't go with the 'dark' colour scheme as there is also some grey in the background.

For my main picture in the middle, I used a shot of his full body so it would fill the page from nearly top to bottom. I cropped the photo of the gituarist out and left a thin white line around him, I did this so I could smudge the white out into the background so it would look like a glowing light is shining off him. I made his head cover part of the title as when looking at proper magazines I saw this on nearly every one and also I quite liked this idea.

For the other text I wrote, I put them in lots of different fonts. I did this so it would look more appealing and eye capturing as if it was done with all the same text, it may look boring. I mainly used the colour yellow as I thought it went with the dark turquoise colour in the background. I decided to put a giant quote on top of the photograph of the guitarist as it shows that it is him who is talking. The quote is also put there to captivate the reader so for me, it had to be large enough for them to be able to read it and also it had to be an interesting quote otherwise the reader would not be drawn in. On the bottom right corner of the magazine cover, I made a circle shape with 'WIN A FREE YEAR OF RESONANCE MAGAZINES' in the middle. I made this so it so it would grab the audiences attention so that more people would want to purchase the magazine and apply to win a year of free magazines. On the top of the magazine, I created a black banner stating in bright yellow all of the posters that are included inside. I know being a teenager who is into the rock genre, posters in magazines are always included and teenagers love magazines to put on their walls at home, so I wanted to include a decent amount of posters that are included inside so the audience will see it straight away and may force them into purchasing the magazine. At the bottom of the magazine, I added the barcode like everything you buy always does, the website, the date and issue number.

Overall, I like this cover that I have created as I have tried very hard to make it look like a realistic magazine. However, I still think there is more for me to improve, like more writing down the left side of the page, beside the photograph explaining more about what's involved in the magazine. Also, I have noticed that I forgot to add the price to the front of the magazine which is obviously a very important thing to have on anything you are purchasing, so on my next draft I am going to work hard to fix them in.