Final Draft of DPS

Final Draft

Final Contents Page Draft

Final Draft

3rd Draft of DPS

3rd Draft

4th Draft of Contents Page

4th draft

Further Development of Products

Final Cover Draft

3rd draft of contents

2nd draft of DPS

First Draft of Double Page Spread

First Draft of DPS

• This is the start of creating my article page. I have chosen a picture of my featured artist with a guitar, which I will incorporate into my article. Both Pictures have pinkish tones, which adds continuity, because my colour scheme is pink.
• The two lines I have placed in the middle of the page give my an idea where the staples will be placed. I have made sure the picture isn't effected by this placement, for example the face won't be folded into two. 
• I have continued using the word major, with 'major artist', further reinforcing brand identity
• I have used a line to separate columns, on the second page, this is inspired by my case study Q. This magazine often uses lines to makes the article columns neat, so they are easy to read.

Second Draft of Front Cover and Contents

I have added a custom barcode onto my front cover, and experimented with text highlighting.

Most of my development has happened to my contents page. With the feedback given to me by my teacher, I have created brand identity, with the word 'major'. I have separated the pages into different topics, with the associated branding. I have also included new pictures. One of Izzy playing the guitar, for musical reference. And the original model picture, I took of my sister, in the first shoot.

Draft of Front Cover and Contents

Here is my first draft of my front cover and the contents page. I used my layout planning posts to help establish the placement of where the text and images should go. This practice also allowed me to experiment with different colour schemes too.

First Front Cover Page

First Contents Page

My Intial Pictures and Process

Over the weekend I took some pictures of my sister for the cover of my magazine. Here were my initial pictures I took of the main artist I wanted to feature in my magazine:

Originally I was reliant on solely natural lighting for my picture, however I was having limited success, as the picture was quite dark. This made the colours look dull, thus not fitting the glamorous bright-shot conventions.

Original

So I changed the camera settings, from portrait to manual. Where I was able to manipulate the ISO, by increasing it, to get a brighter shot. I noticed this setting made my models hair look a lot shinier, and did justice to the makeup I had applied onto her.

Updated

Although this picture has been significantly improved, it is arguably too bright. However this raw state does allow me to manipulate the colours in the digital editing environments (PhotoPlus x8, and my editing app Facetune). So I cropped the picture, used the 'Blemish Remover' tool, and experimented with the image saturation. My final picture is displayed underneath.

Final Image

 I will be using this image as an supporting featured artist on the contents page, because although I am happy with how this image turned out, there are some thing I would have changed. I wasn't able to take a midshot, because I ran out of card background. And midshots were regarded as a popular choice for the cover photo in my questionnaire. Furthermore, my sister looks too young (she's 14) to be modelling a pop magazines that is intended for young adults.