Development of my

magazine

In General

So I did a lot of planning for my magazine and did a lot of research in magazine layouts, how to target an audience and I also did a questionnaire to give myself a broader understanding.

So in this PowerPoint I want to show you how I finished the first layout of my music magazine and with asking different people and taking advice and getting more ideas I change small things and did slight adjustments to make my magazine better.

Front coverSo this is the first layout for my front cover and in my opinion it looks pretty good.I followed all the conventions of a rap magazine and all the planning paid of, because everything is there for a reason.

I asked a couple of people what they think about it, what they like about it and what they would change.

Mr Asks said that the top half is pretty good, but the bottom is too empty and it doesn’t catch the eye as good as it could.His advice was to make the headline bigger and maybe put a selling line at the bottom.

Afterwards

The headline is bigger now and I put a selling line at the bottom, so it doesn’t look so empty anymore and looks more finished.

I also put a link to a the magazine-website at the top right.

In my opinion now it really does look better to the first layout

Contents pageI think this is my best page, because it looks really professional and it shows a lot of Photoshop-skills.

The people I asked agreed but they all said that it should have a bit more colour.

What Mr Asks told me was that the light behind the number 35 should have some more light added, so it looks like the sun is shining in.

Afterwards

I added a light blue gradient effect in the background, going from left to right, this makes it a bit more colourful and the blue goes well with the colour balance of the whole page.

I took Mr Asks’ advice and added some smaller lights around the big light, this way it looks more realistic.

Double page spreadThis is the first layout of my double page spread.It is pretty good in my opinion, but many people I asked said that it could be better.Something was missing in their opinion, but they didn’t really know what. So I went back to my double page spread analyses presentation and I realized that I didn’t had a quote.

AfterwardsSo after adding a quote and cutting some parts of the article and making the tattoo look more realistic.To do that I brought the opacity down and used the eraser and smudge tool.The quote is in blue so I have more variety in my text.In my opinion the double page looks better now.

With the help of others and getting some ideas of them and doing a bit more research I was able to get my magazine out of the development stage and now

it is finished.