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Final Contents Page

Second Contents Page

This is my final contents page and in this version I tried lay everything out in a more organised way instead of having it all over the place however, I still kept the packed look as people in my survey and interview said they thought a packed layout would be most fitting for a rock magazine. I've improved this one from my draft therefore I also added in contents conventions I realized were missing like issue no. and date, page numbers by the featured images (changing their sizes to relate to their importance in the magazine) and I also added who took the photo of the front cover and an editors note - both features I noticed in existing magazines that I thought would be interesting and effective to add on my contents page. I also changed it to A4 to make sure I'm placing everything on the proper page size . In the text, I highlighted in red the important words which would stand out to the reader and make it easier for them find what they're looking for or what interests them, putting them under sub-headings which is usual in magazines. I felt it would look more appealing by having some images in bordered boxes and some just cut out to grab the attention of the reader. Throughout, I've kept in mind the feeback from the survey, interview and peer reviews and kept the colour scheme which is black, red and grey, put quite a lot of images to keep the reader engaged as most thought less text was more suitable so I spread out the text by the images and made the rest smaller to take up less room on the page -making it look like there's lots of images, and I made the laguage casual as most suggested a rock magazine should have informal text.

Contents Page Draft

First Contents Page

This was my first contents page I did. Some aspects were effective and looked part of a rock magazine however, it was still unfinished and wasn't layed out efficiently with the images too close together and the text spaced out with white space. Also, the size of the page wasn't A4 which affected the layout space and how they were presented. At the bottom, there's the wrong page number and the magazine logo wasn't needed as it's on by 'contents' and there isn't an issue no. or date. 

However, I think the subscription and competition ads work well with the genre of the magazine. I also find the images in the photo frames are effective as they're creative and would catch the attention of the reader. Although I've added on a photo from my front cover model, I should also add or replace on of the images with one of the DPS photos as that's what would be featuring in the magazine so should be displayed clearly on where to find the feature article. 

Contents Page Photos

Contents Page Pencil Sketches

 

These are the pencil sketches of possible layouts I can use for my contents page. I looked at some existing rock magazines to get a wider range of ideas of contents page layouts and conventions. 

Contents Page

Final Front Cover

Second Front Cover

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Front Cover Draft

First Front Cover

This is a draft of my front cover. This is missing a few front cover magazine conventions like the bar code, date, price, issue etc. I experimented with the background and decided to black it out so any text over can be seen clearly. However, it's not very effective as the list of bands in red aren't very clear as they go onto the main image. Also the masthead looks rough. I like the main image and her pose, I think it fits in with the rock genre. The image above was the final edited photo which I worked on to create this draft of my front cover. 

Front Cover Photos

Masthead and Headline Experiments

These are some of the different fonts I looked at to use for my masthead and headlines. I chose the second masthead and the third headline because I felt they were most suitable for their purpose. I didn't want to use the first masthead as it was the font used for the title of my DPS. When editing my front cover, I darkened the light areas to make it clearer.

For the headline, I used the third font as it suited the artists name 'Bella Muerte' which translates to Beautiful Death. I think the grunge look of the font links with that. I found the others more plain for this headline.

Front Cover Pencil Sketches

 

Here I've tried out two layouts of my front cover that I can use. Creating more than one will help increase my ideas when developing and making my final front cover.