9th January 2014

First I coloured the background to my contents page,

as the colour can change the appearance of any image

or text that I put on the page. It wasn’t hard to get

the colour, because I had said in my proposal that I

wanted to keep it the same as the front cover.

Then I added the title of the page and used the same

font and colour, to ensure that my target audience

could develop an identity for the magazine.

Furthermore, when I had done my research, I had

found that many rock magazines had used the same

style they had used for their masthead on their front

cover as their contents page.

After sorting out the main template for my contents

page, I started manipulating images for my contents

page. I edited the background out from the single

female artist to make the photo more effective. The

crème wall behind my model didn’t fit with the

colour scheme of my contents page.

14th January 2014

A convention on all magazines is having a page

reference to the image which has been placed on the

page, so I decided to use a star to reference the image

my original idea was to have a sharp 3 point shape to

reinforce the aggressive rock attitude. I used the

polygon tool and

I started to create the box for the

editorial. I used the line tool to create a

shape at the bottom of the page. I then

increased the weight of the lines to

make them visible.

15th January 2014

I used the text tool to put my editorial in. to stick with the

colour scheme, I coloured the text white and stayed

consistent with the font on the front cover.

After this, I added in a white line underneath the contents

to make it stand out more. I also manipulated the image of

George and added that into the contents page. I made the

image smaller and cropped it to get rid of the internet

café in the background.

Then, I added three rounded rectangular shapes for the

different sections of the contents. I made one shape and

then just copied it twice to make sure that they were the

same size and thickness. Also, I counted the space apart

each of the rectangles were from each other to make sure

they were the same space apart. Furthermore, I added a

star to George’s photo as I would need to reference the

image later on.

After this, I then had to work out what to put in the

contents and what pages they were going to be on. For

this, I had to estimate how many pages a certain article

was going to take up to make it feel realistic. On top of

that, I had to think about the images I had used, as I had to

reference these with the pages I put in the contents.

13th February 2014

A few lessons later, after concentrating on my double page

spread, I got the opinions of my teacher, and she

recommended that I put a border round the contents and

add the masthead in the corner. I also realised that I needed

another image for my magazine, so I used an image which

would represent the editor. I used a very small image, as the

readers aren’t interested in this.