Double Page Spread

I used InDesign in the making of my magazine and the typesfaces were imported from Microsoft Word.I places my pictures as i went along.

This is the final look of my double page spread, the colours i chose appeal to both genders of my target audience. The first picture is not edited because it makes the feature article look natural, however the second picture was edited in order to add a a poster look to the article, which makes it interesting and exctiting to read just like posters.

This was the very first look of my magazine, it changed drastically as shown above and the changes are the background colour font sizes and the second image. I changed the font size because my font size was 14 which was far too big compared to the rest of the magazines in the industry. The average is 10 to 12, i didn't want it to look too small and also to not be able to fit all the text so i chose font size 11. I also added tags in the centre of texts to make the article exciting and also to make the readers curious to carry on; e.g "my dos was hit by a bus" is one of two that i used as shown above. The reason i added the second picture was because readers want to see more of the celebrity that is being featured to engage with the interview therefore , in my point of view it was worthy to add the second image.

Contents page

This is the very first look of my contents page, as i have stated it look very much like a poster and the vibrant and electric colours did not appeal to my target audience at all.

This is the second look of the front cover, however i still was not fully satisfied although i placed my picture in, also my research in to the contents pages of other R 'N' B magazines showedt hat my one did not appeal to my chosen genre of music but rather to indie and rock.

So i ended up transforming the contents page fully appart from the font of the titile 'Contents' and the image. The colours are more suited to the magazines in appearance and as genre. I discussed this with my male and female peers and they agreed with me that it was more suited to the magazine as a whole.

Final front cover

This is my final front cover, in my evaluation i said that i wanted to use vibrant and electric colours however i saw that it did not really apply to males as much as it did to females so before i went any further in the making of the magazine i altered the way the magazine looked for the benefit of my target audience. Everything on the front cover changed apart from the logo, because i thought it was adequate and related to both my male and female target audience.

Before my magazine looked like this i never finished it off because i changed my mind before i finished it off. Also the frotn cover below looks too much like a poster, whereas my intention was to make it appear cool and original. Nonetheless the picture below is now placed on my feature article. I decided to put the picture on the double page spread because it makes the article more interesting to read.

TYPEFACES

Voltage? I don’t imagine that’s your real name...
Ha-ha no it’s not actually. My name is miles!

These are the two different fonts used in my feature article, the first is ‘HOBO STD’, and the second one is Bell Gothic STD Light. I use these fonts because they look cosy and are easy fonts to read. One of the other main reasons as to why I used it is because I didn’t want to use the default font Times New Roman because it is a type of font that you expect to see in newspapers which is not at all relevant to the concept of my magazine.

Features
This is a font that that I used in my contents page I used on my contents page and as a title for the feature article. I chose this particular font because it makes the magazine look edgy and adds a twist of a cosmopolitan look. It also stands out without looking to exaggerated and making the magazine look really busy.

Other fonts I used on my contents page were:
Bookman Old Style: I used this font to make the magazine easy to read and to give a straightforward look. It looks really serious as opposed to the fonts below which are very eccentric, which overall makes the contents page eccentric to look through.

Stencil STD: I used this font because I wanted some parts of my contents to stand out so that people definitely see them; it is in a ‘don’t miss section’ of the magazine.

Chiller: This font I used because it gives a tacky street look to the contents page which is what the section I used it on was aimed at.

This is the original picture that i used for my front cover. I didn't want to make any changes because, i wanted a very original natural look. The 'No Loud Music' sign above his head was my target, it gives my magazine a rebellish look, which would impress my target audience.

This was the original picture that i intended to use before the one above.

I manipulated it in photoshop however the outcome gave the magazine a poster appearnace which i did not like therfore i decided to use it on my feature article, which has a more poster look which makes it interesting to read.

This was the second picture that i used on my feature article. I did not manipulate this aswell because again the originality of the picture would have been lost. I did not lose the black object that appears because i placed the picture on the magazine in a away that hid it.

The picture below is the original picture, that i used on my contents page. I took it purposely to give a relaxed look.

It is the final edited photo for the contents page. I gave it a black background, because the background colour of all the pages of my magazine is black, so i made it belnd in with the bakground.