Production Of Contents Page Continued...

I have finished producing my contents page for my Pop music magazine. Once again I have used Photoshop to create this as I found it easier to align my text and images so that my contents page looked like it would feature in a Pop music magazine that is currently on the market.

As I have already shown parts of magazine which I have had my inspiration in my last blog post I am now showing the production stage of my contents page.

I have included a presentation of slides with some print screens of the production of my contents page, showing the different stages of the making.

production of Contents Page

Production Of Contents Page

My inspiration for my contents page has come from a couple of magazines that are already on the market as I couldn't find one that I liked and one that I could easily match my magazine to the conventions of my pop music magazine. Although I have chosen pop as my genre I did not want to follow a pop magazine like, Top Of The Pops, as I knew that this is likely to be aimed more towards girls with the colour schemes etc. and would not fit the design of my front cover and my double page spread which has been produced.

I am going to use my logo that I have created to feature inside of my contents page as I thought it would be good to have the website and subscription prices next to it so that people will look at the logo and relate it straight to the Body Of Music magazine.

This was some inspiration for the bottom of the page inside of my double page spread as I had a free space that needed to be filled.

The way that the images have been presented inside of Kerrang magazine has influenced the way that I have set my pictures out. By keeping them all straight with a black line around the outside to define the photograph so it makes it much easier for the reader to look at.

I have kept my writing in columbs which has come from most magazines that I have analysed that are already on the market. Most genres keep it simple with the text in columns and that is how I have decided to present the writing on my contents page.

My producers say was an idea that i really liked, therfore I have taken a photograph of myself to show the magazine has been produced by me and written a little paragraph in the top left hand corner of the contents page. This was something that I have seen in many of the magazines that I have already looked at.

Production Of Double Page Spread

I have now also finished making my double page spread. I have taken some print screen shots of the different stages in the making of my double page spread.

I also used Adobe photoshop to create my double page spread. I looked at a double page spread from NME magazine to follow the look of the title to make my magazine look similar to it, although I used a different colour scheme to the NME magazine.

I liked the idea of having just one main image for my double page spread but as I have written an interview I wanted to be able to spread it across the two pages. Therefore I decided to use two images but kept the same style and conventions as the NME magazine has done in its double page spread.



making of my Double Page Spread

Production Of Front Cover

I have now finished the front cover of my magazine and to show some different stages through the production of this I have created a powerpoint with some stages during the making.

I created my magazine front cover on Adobe Photoshop which made it easier for me to manipulate photos and produce a page where I could have a layout of a main image with text around it, placed to the front and back of the image so that it followed the conventions of other pop music magazines that I have already looked at.

 

Although I chose to look at a well known pop magazine I added in things that were similar to other pop magazines and things that I thought worked well and fit in with the conventions of a pop music magazine.  

Making of My Front Cover

Body Of Music Logo

I have decided to create a logo that is going to feature somewhere inside of my magazine. Taking the name Body Of Music and trying to create something that would look like a logo that is going to fit the genre and the layout inside of my magazine. I have created this by taking a photo of someone then changing the exposure of the photo in photoshop so that it was really low, therefore the image went black.

To create the B O M that is down the middle of the body I used the same font that I have on my contents page and filled the colour in so that it is white and it stands out from the main image, obviously because it is black.

This idea came purely from the name of my music magazine that I produced. By using the lettering from my contents page and putting them onto the body really emphasises the 'Body Of Music' name.