Construction

Font Practice
I decided to use 'Lazy Sans' as it's sans serif making it look modern, but it's a little wonky and has lines to make it appear different and messier

Skills Development

I decided to use DaFont to design my masthead, the website has so many fonts to choose from and although it took a while to find the right one, I'm very happy with this.

I then used photoshop to change the colour of the text to match my house style colours of black, white and grey.

Contents Page draft

Final Flat Plan for Front Cover

Construction

Focus group with target audience:

Comments:

Positive

“I really like the colour scheme”
“Are they a real band? They look like one”
“That girl is gorgeous, I love her hair”
“I’d think about buying this magazine but I’m not too sure on the price”
“i really like the white border around the edge”

Negative

“Not so sure on the logo, it looks too bold”
“The ‘Next Chapter’ bit doesn’t look right, maybe try a different font?”
“I agree, the colour of the AMP is good but it looks too dark with the black at the back”
“The quote used isn’t very obvious that it’s from ‘Next Chapter’

Final Colour Scheme

Construction

I’ve now changed the masthead to red and put more black in, I feel like this would be better suited to a punk-rock genre of magazine instead of alt-rock so I won’t be using this colour scheme

Construction

I’ve responded to the feedback from my peers, I trust their judgement as they’re editing magazines too and have done their research just like I have.
I have cleared up the messy layout making it easier to look at, removed the messy border with the different colour greys and added more grey in but of the same colour
I have kept the blue in for now but I’m going to use photoshop to see what it looks like with red which is a more rocky colour

Construction

Feedback from peers:

Star- I really like the image, it looks really professional

Wish – The grey in the top corner and behind the text are different and it’s noticeable, they should be the same colour

Star – I like the white space at the bottom

Wish – on the left hand side the white space doesn’t look right, it either needs to be fully white or fully grey

S – Good quality image

W – The layout is very messy and I don’t know where to look

Star – I like the grey white and black colours

Wish – I’m not sure if the light blue works with the genre of the magazine

Construction

I have added paint splodges around the outside to give the edgy effect

Construction

I have now used photoshop to see how the masthead looks on the cover photo.
It really stands out and I'm pleased with how it looks

Construction

This font was designed on photoshop, I think it really stands out which is important for a masthead

Construction

The top picture is the original image that I took for my front cover
In the bottom picture I have used photoshop to make the background black and white, keeping the models in colour.  I put two layers on, the colour image, and the same image in black and white.  I used the eraser tool to rub out the black and white where the models are revealing the colour from underneath.
This technique has made the models stand out to be the focal point

Colour scheme

Construction

Interview Questions for Double Page Spread

Photoshoot for magazine