Contents Page First Draft

Contents Page Initial DraftsIsaac’s Initial Draft Tobi’s Initial Draft Ewan’s Initial Draft

This design follows a conventional layout. The images are placed appropriately and it was inspired by another real acoustic music magazine to make it as authentic as possible. The horizontal columns are a feature of many acoustic music magazines.

This follows a conventional and appropriate design scheme. The layout is orderly and neat which is conventional of all acoustic music magazines and shows a clear understanding of the target audience.

This design is conventional and is clearly inspired by the target audience research survey. The columns are appropriate and are designed in a way that will appeal to the target audience. The placement of the images are appropriate and shows that the design scheme has been planned out well.

Contents Page First DraftFor the contents page, we used the same colour scheme for the text of green, orange and red. The green is for the headings, red for the description and orange for the numbers. The layout follows a cross format with the heading in the middle and two images either side. It is set out due to the two halves of the magazine with the artists accompanying the image of the main artist and the instruments on the bottom with the guitar.

Tobi’s Comparison Of Initial and First Draft

The designs for both contents page drafts are mirrored in a lot of ways. They both follow the same structure and look exactly how they were expected to look.

Isaac’s Comparison of Initial and First Draft

The designs are similar but at the same time the first draft is a big improvement as it was made after the audience research survey and so is much more conventional and relevant to our genre.

The first draft also incorporates a colour scheme which was based off our audience research survey and is typical of acoustic music magazines.

Manipulated Image• For the contents page, we used a very

minor (and very low standard) manipulation on the guitar. Because we had not taken an image of a guitar which was of a good quality, we chose to use one from the background of another image. After cropping it down, we then used the healing brush tool from Photoshop on the area surrounding the guitar. Although it was not done to the highest standard, the size of the image on the page makes the details very minor and almost unnoticeable

Peer Review• When we got back results from peer

reviewing, it was mostly positive. People liked the colour scheme and the use of the same font as on the cover helps to show they are from the same magazine. It was pointed out we had made an error on the final heading by using the wrong colour and we had mixed up the exclusive article and poster as they were now out of chronological order. Once these are fixed, we do not see what other problems there could be and neither could my peers.

Contents Page Draft Edits• Taking on the details of the peer

reviews from other designs, we made a drastic change for the next design. The colour scheme was edited, but kept mostly the same and the structure was changed to be more conventional. The image used for the artist was changed to match that on the cover (Which is a conventional way of arranging images) and the rest of the page is chronologically laid out in a typical style for an acoustic magazine.

Final Contents PageFor our final contents page design, we made several changes from the second and third draft to make it as conventional as possible.

Some of the text on the page was changed to white to make it more consistent with the front cover and double page spread.

We also moved the page numbers to the top to again add consistency with the double page spread.

We also added an editor’s note, as this is conventional and fits in line with our genre. Many other acoustic music magazines do this.

The contents page was also rearranged into categories and because of this made a double page spread to make it fit, and also to accommodate for the additional pictures we added. It is very conventional of acoustic music magazines to be organised into categories rather than having the pages listed numerically, so this is why we made the change.

There were also more orange lines added to make the magazine have a house style as the other pages use a similar design.

We also added a website along the bottom, as well as the magazine name, date and issue number to make it look more professional.