Magazine Final Draft

Chosen Images

I have decided to use these possible imgaes to be featured in my magazine. One of the close ups of one of my models in the purple dress i have decided will be on my front cover. As I am thinking of having many pictures on my article, I made sure that the chosen images are not the same images whith the same outfit. This is to make the magazine more professional looking with the artist having different looks.

Contact Sheets

  

These images are my contact sheets which contain all the images (good and bad) that had been taken in my photoshoot recently. This is a good way of showing all the images and having an idea of the selection of images I have and to easily spot which ones I want and which ones I don't want. The contact sheet is also for proofing purposes to show evidence that I have done my photoshoot and that all images featuring on the contact sheets are taken by me. I've not only made a contact sheet for proofing purposes however to see which images will be the best for my magazine.

Behind the Scenes Video of Photoshoot

Magazine Progress

Production Log #16 - Improvements to Magazine Pages

16th December 2013
Today's lesson was a very productive lesson, not only did I complete my first double page spread, i moved onto make an extra double page spread for my box outs and readers page which was a page recommended by my target audience in a survey which I conducted a time ago.
I read through the article once again to make sure that it made sense, in between I added more text into the interview as I had very good ideas which I didn’t want to miss out in including them in my article. I also added text after an important paragraph informing the reader that they should watch a certain video or buy an album. This text was in italics so that It’s different from the rest of the surrounded by it.

Model Release

In order for me to take images for my magazine, I had to get permission from my models in whether they would allow me to use their images in any of my media assets I will produce. Natalie and Georgia signed the model release the grant me permission to take images of them and use it for my media product.

Production Log #15 - Starting My Double Page Spread

9th/10th December 2013
Over the past 2 lessons, I have been mainly updated and improving my magazine pages, however this week I've been focusing on my double page spread. 
I completed my final look of my front cover and contents page. I decided to focus on my double page last as the easy task of these pages would be adding the article text by just copying it from where I wrote it and then paste it into the columns. 

I have taken a decision that I will be making 2 double pages and 2 pages of photos which will have box outs and additional to text related to the article. 

On the first page of my double page spread, there is an introductionary page of my artist with a caption to support it. 

I had quite difficulties at the beginning of the lesson becuase the software was not working for me as my texts boxes where being rearraged just after I opened it. When I opened up the document, each box was overlapping meaning I had to arrange them the way I needed to, this took me 10 minutes to solve out.

I copied and pasted my article which I already had typed up on a word document and I also had a back up on my blog. I made the quotes bold  which were within in the text so that it could be slightly eyecatchy in the text instead of have the same standard block text. 
I decided to have a pull quote on the first page of the article.

On the 10th December 2013, I continued to add all the essential components of the article into the page, which slowly started to build up the magazine 'exclusive' article.As you can see from both images, I have made a big progress in the first double page article of my magazine. I've added more text, and replaced the text 'Pull Quote' with a quote taken from the article. I had to think about which quote to pick so that the reader will be interested into reading more into finding out why they artist said that.

Production Log #14 - Progess of Draft Magazine

2nd/3rd December 2013
In both lessons, I continued to work on my front cover. I made a lot of progress, I also edited few things onto the front cover as I wasn't satisfied with the look of it.

                    Before                                                After

I added more cover lines, as I knew what cover lines I was going to have, the process of adding the cover lines to the front cover didn't take me long. Also I played around with the fonts and the sizes as well. This is because I wanted to make that the font and size are clear and suitable for the front cover. As the front cover is the most appealing page to get the attention of my reader, I have to make sure that this page stands out and appeal to my audience. 

I've kept the main sell line 'Name' this is because I'm playing around with different fonts to make the name stand out more. I also needed to adjust the sell line description in which why the artist name has been removed. 

I thought of the idea to have two rectangles going across to make it more modern and eye appealing, also as the main sell line would be on the rectangles, it's gives more focus to that part of the page compared to any other places on the page.