Magazine Production: Details

Adding details to the magazine is important.

Magazine Production: The Image

These are the images I took for the new front cover. In my presentation you can see the chosen image and the potential ones.

New Style Model

Since I have changed the idea for my magazine,  I have selected new style models.

Magazine Production: New Cover, Big Change.

After trying to build my contents page for "The Stonehearts" magazine cover, it wasn't looking how I imagined it. I wasn't happy with my front cover either as I thought I could do much better than that. I also had a problem with all of the images I took in that photo shoot as I thought they weren't good enough, they had green glows around them from the lighting and the green screen. It was proving too difficult to cut out accurately and edit to make them look better. I also didn't think the models complimented each other and didn't like the idea of a duo anymore. This is why I decided on changing my model for the front cover and the design. Therefore I have had to chose new style models for my magazine which can be seen in the presentation below.

Magazine Production: Adding Detail

Adding detail to my cover is important to make it look like it could be a real magazine cover. Most magazines have taglines on their front cover and the magazine that I was using to inspire this front cover had a tagline feature, therefore I wanted to use this feature also.  

I started by thinking of stories that would be related to my music magazine's genre. I then added this text and put effects on it to make it stand out on the page more. The effects I used was outer glow, bevel and emboss and stroke. I used these to create a stand out effect on the page.

Another small feature I done which is important is added a barcode which I found online and the price of my magazine which is £3, the usual music magazine price in this genre of music. I also included the month of publication as this is common. I advertised the magazine's website in pale font beside the logo to show that my magazine is versatile.

Magazine Production: Changing my Logo's Font and Colour.

Before

I decided to change the font of my logo from the one shown at the top to the one in the above two photos. I think this was important because the first font had a slimy kind of effect to it and although they are similar fonts, the second one is more sharp. It was also important for me to change the logo font's colour to white because it made it look more sharp against the background of the logo. I first tried a black background for my logo and changed it because I thought the colour scheme looked too monochrome and was needing a bit of colour, therefore I changed it to a red, I matched the colour of the logo background to the lipstick colour shown on the model to the left, I done this by using the colour picker tool on Photoshop. I think the red background has more of a professional look and compliments the white font colour more than the black does as it makes it look bold and fresh.