Notes.

As i have finished my designed already for the deadline this week, most of the time i have been playing around with my designs. Iv been changing the positioning of my images and text to get the full accurate, professional and simply look iv been looking for. I have made no serious changes to my layouts or text at the minuet as im still undecided on weather some positioning need to change or not. This week has just been little alterations and playing around with current ideas iv already done.

Double page spread altered.

When looking back at my ideas i felt i hadn't included many images and therefore shown a large range of photography skills, so i decided to take some more last minuet images. I felt images were needed of my double page spreads writer, photographer and fashion designer as this is convention of popular music magazines its commonly used in news papers to place an image of the article writers. I felt in this magazine that the article writers are just as important as the band or artist them selves being interviewed, so a little imaged placed near the names of the writer, photographer and fashion designer just to show their importance in this article. Iv also used the same image editing as the big image of the band to bring the all features of the page together nicely. 

Weekly target.

As the coursework deadline is this friday this week i need to be making the finishing touches to all my pages, the cover, the contents page and double spread to get the better higher grade. As all my ideas have been made i just need to make sure everything is how i want it to be and the ideas all work together to make a magazine, last minuet touches to my work will be needed.

Double page spread progress.

My double page spread ideas were developed from my draft but i wanted to start from blank. As this time i was more influence by clash i tried to interpret some of their double page spread features. I started with featuring the articles writer, photography and fashion of the double page spread to make my magazine look like a real magazine and professional.

I also wanted to place a pull quote on my double page spread but not in the article as i don't find that effective with my style i am going for. So i decided to place a catchy quote from my article at the top of the page in a bigger and bolder font then the actual article text and any other text appearing on my pages.

Like all common basic articles i had to place a title somewhere so as inspired by clash i copied their article title layout of being in a bigger bolder text and just above the article and towards the center of the page, to make it look more different and unique to common conventional music magazines.

Then to add my article, as i knew my whole article wouldn't be placed on the double page spread what was going to be shown would have to be what attracts the reader the most to carry on through the magazine to read the rest of the article on this music band. The layout of my text was inspired my clash as well, as their layouts are simply but different which is that that will attract my indie/alternative, indie scenesters target audience. So i copied their text layout having the first line of text shorter than the second line of text and starting from the left.

My image was then placed on the other side of the page filling this page. I decided to do some editing to this image i was using as it was an image showing the whole band but it was only the lead that was being interview in this part of the article. I thought having the whole band showing would show the readers the whole picture that they are wanting to know reading this article. In the editing of this image i decided to create the image black and white, but then thought that was too obvious and common, so instead i added a bit of warmth to the image, making it look more grey. 

I decided to make this double page look real and professional to add a piece of text at the bottom of the image explaining whats in the image and who the models are. I thought this would look really effective as it shows my thoughts and ideas into the little details needed on a double page spread to look professional.

Then finally the finished touches are the page numbers. Like with my contents page and how clash place their page numbers i placed mine in the middle of the two pages to the side, this looks professional and makes my magazine unique for its own take on layouts and designs.

Weekly target.

This week i shall continue some more progress on my cover page if needed, but start drafting new or improving ideas from my draft of the double page spread and maybe even improve or add to my article as new better ideas for this magazine have been made since my first draft of the article and improvements everywhere will need to be made now.

Ideas of fonts.

Clash magazine use capital letters for text on both the contents page and cover page, i have copied this idea. I wanted my text to be typewriter but i also wanted it in capital letters that make text more bold and powerful on a page, so i want to use the font Alien League. But i shall only use this font for the contents page and cover page the double page spread however like clash they use a different font for their article text, which i have decided to use Courier New for my article font and it still looks like typewriting.  

Weekly target.

This week i need to plan ideas for my photo shoot for my draft, play around with ideas and insertional photographers photos and modelling then do my photo shoot which i will need to place all images taken on flickr and begin editing and playing around with black and white, brightness levels and colour to improve my photos quality. Then place images onto my draft to complete my draft design to hand in for the end of this week.