The making of my contents page...

For the best outcome, it is better that the cover and the contents page had the same kind of design to it.  And I realised that my cover is quite simple so I decided that I would go the same direction with my contents page.


To do this, i used photoshop again.
I put the masthead at the top, and again I got that font from dafont.  Then I produced a a editors letter.  And because inside the editors letter, I had said about the fun whilst taking the "photoshoot", I put a few photos that went wrong to show that we had fun.  
Underneath, there were the pages and information you needed.  I put the information inside grey boxes so that they would stand out, and at the same time the whole design of the page would look simple.


This is my developed contents page:

The making of my magazine cover...

I used photoshop to produce my magazine cover, and I used many different techniques to do this.

This is the image that I took and chose to use for my magazine cover.
 I wanted the background to be simply white and to do this I had to erase the whole background.
I used 
I also used photoshop to help me change the image. I made the colours of the image shaper, and used the "clone" and "blur" tool to help my models skin look nicer. 




And to create the the background, I went onto a site called dafont.com and chose the fonts I wanted to used. and placed it wherever I wanted in the background.  Then I added a bar code so that it looks like a real magazine.
And this is what I finished with:

Magazine Covers

Out of the three magazine covers that I have looked at, this is the one that caught my attention the most.  This is because the background is very original.  And if I do something like that for my own magazine, it is up to me what font I use and how creative I want my cover to be.

And here is my final piece.  My complete magazine cover. 

Research of other magazines

To produce my own magazine, I had to do some research on some magazine covers that I like.  and here are a few of my favourite ones, and i have analysed them.

Elle is a women’s fashion magazine.

The image is a studio shot; we can tell this as this image is a posed position. 

The image is edited we can tell this by the eyes. 

The colours of they eyes are the same colour as the masthead.

There is only one image on the cover, this shows that there is only really one main focus for this months issue.

All of the colours used for this cover magazine are quite soft. And the colour of the font and the background of the image all match, and are all the same colours.

The font is rounded; this can show that the magazine is quite feminine.

Men’s fashion magazine.

A studio shot, again like the elle magazine this is a posed position. And the background is there on purpose.

The pose is a man stood up, this shows status.

Cover lines are written in capital letters, this can also be another way to show power.  And it also stands out more.

Colouring of the writing is simply black or white.  So its more noticeable and stands out more.

Men’s fashion magazine

It is a posed position

The background is created purposely for this issue.  And it is in black and white.

The image is also in black and white but it stands out from the background.

The masthead is in a different colour, and in yellow because that colour attracts more attention.

The fonts of the cover lines are all different but they do not clash.

The font is capital letters to show power and status and its more noticeable.