Date post: | 14-Jan-2017 |
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DPS Layout
At first for my layout I followed
my flat plan, by including the G-
cliff graphic to the structure of
the interview text, so it would
go up in stairs which I got the
idea from ‘NME’ Double Page
Spread on the left.
I added blue boxes to map out where my
Mast head would go, which I took
inspiration from ‘NME’ music magazine
below. I tried out having a graphic text in
the background in the same font as my
Mast head on my front cover to make it
Cohesive, but overlaying it behind the text
Made it bit hard to read.
This is not the image I will use for the double page
spread, however it is there just to help me get a general
idea as to what pose and where I should position my
actual image in the layout. Like how I’ve tested using
cut out to experiment with, which didn’t look good.
Then I tried only having the image on one side and
only text on the other. Which was ok but it didn’t
work as Indie music magazine layout, to me
personally.
With this one the image covers both pages
which works best for the text as it’s background.
I tried changing the colour of her jumper to blue
to link to her name ‘Ocean’ and to really just
experiment with. Which makes it look a bit
sketchy which would suit a more rock themed
music magazine better.
In most indie genre and
any music magazines in
general tend to take a
bit of the text in the
interview and make it a
pull quote for the
readers, which had to be
something relating back
to the genre Indie and
the artist as well that is
why I tried different
fonts and quotes to
achieve that.
Here is the actual image I will use on my DPS as it links to the genre of Indie with
the flower and guitar, also the colour scheme is cohesive with the front cover and
contents page as her shirt is blue it links to her name ‘Ocean’ and is used to
highlight the questions with in the interview. I changed the layout of the text so the
stairs are coming down instead of going up, to better frame the image of the artist.
I have used photo manipulation by changing the levels of the image to brighten up the
image and the background.
Instead of making the title tilted going over both
pages like I originally intended like in ‘NME’, I had
to put on one side not tilted. I chose to use the font;
Perpetual tilting MT bold to be cohesive with the
front cover.
I chose to include the
sub-heading of
‘Making waves’ as it
links to the interview
in which the artist has
released her first
album called ‘Tidal
Waves’, so it’s to link
it to that and to be a
metaphor to suggest
the artists growing
popularity.
I have added a peach colour drop shadow to make
the title and sub-heading standout more and so it’s
cohesive with front covers colour scheme and to
introduce a warm colour to all the blue which
links back to the theme indie and my research on
mind map of things which are more likely to be
indie.
I have also neatened up the text and
made sure the second column isn’t
longer than the third and i have done the
font in ‘Segoe print bold’ as it’s cohesive
with the font used on my contents page
and links well with the theme of indie
music.
I experimented with
changing the font of my
interview just to see how
another font would look
like however the DPS as
whole didn’t flow as well
as it did without the new
font, so I'm keeping the
text font as ‘Segoe print
bold’.
I tried adding the
to fill up the page
a bit more.
However as an
Indie music
magazine I like
the simple and
elegant look it has
as personally to
me that looks
more indie, so
I’m not going to
include the
quote.
I included the
page number
like any music magazine
would and kept the colour
scheme white to be cohesive
with the content page.