Making the magazine - Progress 7

I have now began construction on my contents page, as you can see below:

I am following my chosen design layout and so far have:

• Placed the picture related to the main article
• Input "Contents" into the top right of the contents page
• Added the page number down the bottom right of the contents page, surrounded by a white circle so that it stands out

It's worth noting that though the white circles used to make the page number stand out actually go outside the page, it is not a worry as when this would be printed, because the circles go off the page only what is on the page (in this case the top left quarter of the circle) will be seen, so the desired effects I am going for will be shown.

I will be following this post soon with more progress so keep checking back for more when it comes :)

Till next time :)

Making the magazine - Progress 6

I have now made further progress with my double page spread as you can see below:


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The changes I have made are as follows:

• Added text to the left page of the double page spread
• Added  page numbers on the bottom far corners of each page on the double page spread
• Added the word "exclusive" to the top right of the right page of the double page spread, surrounded by a black box to make it stand out.

thought the text in this image above shows up as just line, below you can see what actual text has been entered:

That's all for now :)

My next post will be me making progress on my contents page, as I am at home for the half term and do not own Adobe InDesign, I will obviously come back to this though and will put up more progress posts as I am putting th finishing touches on it :)

Till next time :)

Making the Magazine - Progress 5

I have now started construction on my double page spread, as you can see below:

So far I have chosen an A3 landscape layout with 6 columns for reference on position on the double page spread. Taken a picture of my face into photoshop, then using different effects created the image you see in the screenshot image (red and black to keep with the style of the artist within the article) and then split the image in two halves and placed them onto the background for my double page spread, the reason for the space in the middle is to compensate for the part of the image that would have been lost during printing, as this article is spread across two pages. This way the image would come out whole and connecting across the two pages.

Anyway that's all I have done for now :) I was originally going to add more images though at this point I am not sure, also it is worth mentioning that originally the image across both pages wasn't going to span the entire double page spread, but when I placed the two halves of the image it looked much better this way, so I decided to keep it the way it was.

Anyway that's all for now, till next time :D

Making the Magazine - Progress 4 (Front Page Complete)

I have now finished the front page for my music magazine, you can see how it looked and how it looks now below:

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As you can see there are a number of changed from how it looked last time, these changes are listed below:

• Moved the bar code location, as I believed it worked better and looked more professional in it's new placement.
• Added the cover lines and separators (for the cover lines) to the front cover, also the "FREE POSTER INSIDE!!!" offer was added to the front cover.

and that's everything :)

Please leave comments on what you thing of the front cover of my music magazine, plus any suggestions for improvement or just any possible idea in ways to change it, I will check back regularly and take any ideas I think are good on board and make the changes accordingly, then I will post pictures of the updated front cover :)

From here I plan to start my double page spread before my contents page, as I will be using Adobe InDesign to create it, and the only place I currently have access to that software is at school, so in the week before half term I plan to do as much of the double page spread as possible :)

Anyway that's all for now, please leave comments and cya next time :D

Making the Magazine - Progress 3

More changes and new things added as you can see:

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I have moved my banner to the bottom of the front cover as I believe it works better down there, I know this is different to my original design but as I mentioned, the drawings were only very basic designs and were certainly subject to change. I have also moved the location of my barcode as I believe it worked better higher up on the magazine (again different to my original design). Finally I added in the tag line "The beginning for Rock and Indie Music" and put it against the same black background as the masthead.

That sums it up for now, I wil keep posting my progress every so often and will keep everone updated on where I am in the media coursework :D

Till next time :)

Making the Magazine - Progress 2

Further progress has been made on the front cover :), as you can see below:

 

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The changes I have made are, I have now added the masthead ("Genesis") at the top of the front cover, accompanied by a black background to help the white colour of the text stand out. I added a banner across the front cover saying "Exclusive interview with "Red n' Black" Jack". Finally I created a barcode and then added it to the bottom right of the magazine for realism and to make the front cover look professional.

That's all the updates since the last post on progress :), I will continue to post until my music magazine is completely finished :)

Anyway that's all for now, till next time :)

Tag Line Decided

I have now decided the tag line will be:

"The beginning for Rock and Indie music"

I made this decision as I put up on my blog, 5 ideas for my tag line and the vote was unanimous, so as it is clearly the most popular, I will use this tag line :D

Anyway, that's all for now

Till next time :)