Considering that their needed to be an ongoing theme throughout my front cover and contents page, I used the same text type 'Sketch Block' for the masthead on my contents page. I put 'January 2010' in bold, black sketch block font. This looked striking against the white background. As I wanted to keep a theme with the masthead on the front cover, I put a bold line underneath the text. However, I did not want it to appear too similar to the front cover so I put it in a ice blue. I decided that because the front cover had a colour scheme of black, white and red that the front cover would have a colour scheme of black, white and blue. Underneath the text, I put a line of writing in a 'decade' font which I found on dafont and wrote 'NEWgigs.NEWyear.NEW.' etc. I felt that this would look attractive and also contribute to the excitement that a new year brings, I also related all the words back to music to remind the readers that it is purely a music magazine.
I used a background of a photo of my black and white flower wallpaper, I felt that this looked classy and indie against the pictures I chose to use.
I used a background of a photo of my black and white flower wallpaper, I felt that this looked classy and indie against the pictures I chose to use.
It also went well with the colour of the font, which stood out against the shadowy background. Also, this linked back to the colour scheme of the front cover. For the photo's, I used the other shots that I took during the photo session for my front cover picture. I used the photo's of the 1940's girl with great style. I edited these photo's into a greyscale and shadowed them all to the same extent. I then put them on top of one another in a column so that the photo's resembled a polaroid shot. I liked the style of the photo's because they all were different poses but all related back to the front cover and the classy, indie jazz that the model connoted. The background did look good, however the writing didn't show up as well as I wanted to so I changed the background to a plain tourquoise one which I felt went nicely with the blue writing.
I then created a text box and split the columns into different sections such as 'GIGS' or 'NEW MUSIC' using the 'sketch block' font and the 'nicely written' font. I felt that this would connote the sense that the magazine is soley about music, it shows that it is not a celebrity, gossip obsessed magazine.
I then created a text box and split the columns into different sections such as 'GIGS' or 'NEW MUSIC' using the 'sketch block' font and the 'nicely written' font. I felt that this would connote the sense that the magazine is soley about music, it shows that it is not a celebrity, gossip obsessed magazine.
Once I created my first contents page, I posted it on facebook to get some feedback.
The feedback that I got showed me that I need to change the colour scheme because many friends commented saying that they didn't like the tourquise in the background. Therefore,
I decided to review the colour scheme and make the background white to create a more professional, clean cut feel to the page. However, my audience did say that they liked the photos and the way which they were taken and edited. Therefore, I kept the layout of my photo's the same.
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