Contents page draft

This is the basic layout for my contents page, at this moment I do not have enough images or different models for my contents.

Front cover 1st draft

Front cover drafting process

My first step, I went on an editing website called 'Pixlr.com' which I put the effect of grayscale's but putting the brightness down. On this program this is where is also made my mast head, sell lines and my button. As you can tell I did not use the program photoshop for any editing of my 1st draft. For the headline including the quote i enhanced the colour of the font to change, trying to look like a gradient effect. However the colour did not seem eye catching as bright as red and would not look professional as I want it to be. During this process I did not realise that I had made spelling mistakes, I spelt the 'underachievers' wrong, this would take a few marks away form a silly mistake. So I could not change this as I had already saved the file and had noticed it late.

Photo shoot for front cover

For this photo shoot I had sued my Sony HD camera, all I needed was to take a mid shot of the model.  

4 Different analyses of front covers

DPS draft

DPS draft

This was my first time using Photoshop, I taught myself how to use the tools and also found guide online to help me try to construct my double page spread. I took the concept of David Baileys photography of having that vintage look, in black and white. I did this incorporate the colors also of just having plain black and white as his clothing overall was black and white. I only specifically made my artist in the black and white effect to show he is the main focus. The background I had blurred out to make the focus on him more effective. For my other page I had put all the text onto there which we would be easier for the reader to find what they are looking for, the interview. I had took the artist name and put it in the middle, fading the B into the plain black background.


I have picked this specific image because it is more related to the quote of 'I will continue to pray, until success bows down before me' which shows he is bent down and is praying, showing the audience what he is about.

Photoshoot for DPS

Playing with fonts

Here I test out which fonts could suit my magazine well for my front cover, contents and DPS. I needed something that would be plain, simple and very eye catching at the same time so that I don't overdo it. These were from the website 'Dafont.com' and had a variety of fonts to choose from and download, most of these didn't really attract me to using any of these fonts as it is better to keep my house style simple and stylish at the same time.

Front cover, Contents and DPS sketches

Front cover sketch 

Contents page sketch 

Double page spread sketch - Took  the idea from my inspired DPS

For my front cover, the headline is Skinny B right now, it will be changed to another artist as I want the magazine to focus on another artist so that I have a variety. The layout of my front cover and contents page may change.

Experimentation with photography

In this task we had to to take different types of pictures to do with lighting, composition and positioning of the shot. This task was to help us with how we take our shot to improve our photography for our final drafts for our magazine.