Magazine construction diary/jornal

FRONT COVER

I chose this picture to start with and realised I didn’t want Vicky looking up on my front cover.

I changed the front cover picture to this.

I edited the photo of Vicky to decrease the brightness and make her hair look darker to fit in the idie genre of my magazine. I put my ‘In Tune’ masthead in this font from dafont.com.

I changed my mind about the masthead and decided I needed a bolder one for it to stand out more. I chose this font called ‘Porter Sans Block’, also from dafont.com and used the magic wand tool to remove the background from it. I then made the masthead blue to follow a colour scheme.

I added a date, issue number and price, all in the ‘Consolas’ font and blue to match my colour scheme and barcode to my front cover. I made my main image larger and put Vicky’s head in front of the masthead.

I then realised that my main image couldn’t cover my masthead that much as it is the first issue of the magazine, so I put it behind the masthead. I made my main cover line, using ‘Lemon milk’ font from dafont.com and some anchorage text in black underneath it.

I added some more cover lines to my front cover in the same font in blue and black colours, in order to go with my colour scheme, and some smaller pictures showing what else is featured in this issue of the magazine.

CONTENTS PAGE

I put my masthead the same as it is on my front cover, on my contents page and a ‘Contents’ title which was called ‘Secret code’ from dafont.com.

I added 3 photos to my contents page to show what is featured in this months issue of the magazine. I added page numbers to show where abouts to find the features in the magazine in the ‘Rockwell extra bold’ font and text to accompany these page numbers.

I do not have any screen shots of making the double page spread because I forgot but here is the finished magazine in In Design.

To make my double page spread I first put the back ground picture on and resized it to fit the page. I then added to two extra images of the cover story artist in the studio to make my double page spread more interesting and added a stroke effect to make the edges stand out from the background picture. Lastly I added the interview in columns to make it look like an article and then the title, which was in the curly ‘FreeStyleScript Regular’ to link in with my indie genre.