Magazine production screenshots

This screenshot shows me transferring my masthead from editing onto my front cover, I decided to the change the colour to be orange. This is because that colour tends to be popular amongst indie/rock fans, as it is close to favourite colour brown.

I had many different fonts to choose from on the Dafont website, but I decided upon this one as it is tidy and quite classy, which I think fits into the indie genre, and is also quite ironic as my magazine is called Tidee (close to tidy).

I then adjusted the colouring of my photo of the band, I decided to make the image brighter to make it stand out more and seem less dull and boring. I then added an orange header and footer in which I was going to place text, I played around with some effects.

I eventually ended up with smaller boxes that were lighter and didn’t have any effects

After a long period of time, my magazine was starting to take shape, I had added a pull quote which was “we are not a drink”, and the band name in its own font. This was used a second time in the skyline as it is specific to the band.

I also added two more pull quotes which were “ follow us on Facebook” and “free iTunes album inside!” I used these as freebies and pull quotes as I found out in my questionnaire that people don’t like paying for music, and the favourite website to visit is Facebook.

I then decided to move around the competition and freebie symbols, I placed the freebie and the competition on the left third as this is the part that is the part most visible to the readers when it is on the shelf. I then moved the Facebook logo to the top right to make it more appealing to the reader, as I found out in my survey, most people use Facebook, and it should reach out to them.

I also added a background which I later changed around a bit. It was made using a paintbrush of steel sheets and a warning badge.

This is my final magazine front cover. Since the last print screen I increased the brightness of the image as I found it was still to dark, and I changed the background using free transform. I also shrunk the size of the orange boxes so that the image size could be increased and the image itself moved, freeing up the mast head.

After much thought, I started on my contents page. Here you can see I added the list of pages with titles explaining what's on them. I also added headings to them to section them off from each other, so everything is easier to find.

I also added an orange box, to which I was going to add the subscription information, something found in many magazines.

I had added the image in first time round, but kept deciding against it, I eventually stuck with it because I felt it gave people a reason to stop and take a look at the contents.

I also added a smaller image of one of the band members a piece of speech from the interview. This is so people can see what is being said and will want to read through to the double page. I also added a page number so they know what page relates to the picture.

I decided to have “magazine map” as the title of this page because “contents” is boring.

This is my final version of my contents, the only change I made since the last screenshot was that I shrunk the image in the orange box, this was because it was hugging the head of the main image and needed a margin.

These three screenshots show my first ideas for my double page spread, thankfully I did not stick with them as they weren’t very good. They also lead me onto my final double page spread which I personally think is a lot better than these.

This was to become my final double page, I decided to put in a profile for each of the band members to fill up some of the space and to make the reader more interested. I also used the same font for Carlin as I had done on the front cover, this is so people would recognise it and stick to the page.I added some text below the page title, this

was an introduction to the interview, unfortunately, it was too long and I had to shorten it down to 3 lines, rather than 10.

Since the last screenshot, I added a background, the interview and changed the images for the profiles. The background is a shot of the band playing on guitar hero on expert, this was used as in the interview they say about how guitar hero was the game that set them off on their career. I used two colours for the text, eventually using three. This was so you could tell the difference between question, answer and narration.

I changed the photos in the profile as the last photos were from the same picture and didn’t really give each artist their own space, so I used separate images, showing each artist in motion doing their own thing.

This is the final copy, I changed the colours of the profile images so that they didn’t clash with the background like orange did. I also added my introduction which I shortened down to 3 lines. I also added who done the images and who wrote the interview, and a small piece of text explaining the main image.