My Front Cover
Here is my front cover that i designed in Photoshop, by using a magazine called DJ i based the set out, layout, colour scheme so that i had something to base my magazine on. i think that by using the other magazine, it helped me create my magazine and i am happy with the outcome of the magazine, i also think that the magazine gives out the appropriate message to the audience about what this magazine has to offer. i think that a strength point i can point out in my front cover is that i think that the colours go well, and do represent the colours that are mostly likely to appear in a club such as the dark room and the neon colours/lights flashing around the room. i think the main weakness in this front cover is that maybe the writing layout could be organised better and maybe structured it better to make it look more professional. but overall i am quite happy with the outcome i think that the magazine shows what it is meant to show to the audience.
My Contents Page
Here i designed my contents page in Photoshop, again by using the magazine DJ this helped me get my layout and structure of a rough idea i wanted to do with my contents page, i then applied the same colour scheme to the contents page as i did with the front cover, this is to show a link through out the magazine so that the audience doesn't get lost with the magazine and lose interest with it. how i designed the contents page was by using simple effects in Photoshop that i just played with until i thought that the magazine looked good enough to be final end product. i then just used for to get the black background was by using a tool called a gradient tool, this made the view of the background of the, also what went well was the good was the nice mix between the pictures and the layout, this is done by blurring out the outside of the figure and then just placing it in the middle of the page and also just turn down the opacity so that picture can blend behind the text . i think that one of my strengths i think worked well in this front cover is that i like the layout of the actual contents page i think that the text images and colours are set up very well, and also it is simple enough to read and not to long winded so it bored the audience.
My Double Page Spread
Here i created my double page spread in Photoshop, and by using the same colour scheme i have been using through out my magazine i went for the dark background by using the gradient tool and mixing the white and black colours to create the shade of two colours. also i added the effect of having the image of who the double page spread is interviewing, so i applied the image in the background and then i used the opacity tool to turn down the actual view of the image so it is lightly faded in the background. i think that this did help quite a bit with both the look of the magazine and also with the text of the interview so you can see the image of the artist is. i also think that the layout of the dps is standard and also very easy to view so it will not confuse the reader and make them lose track of what they are reading.
