Print- Contents Page & Double Page Spread

The pictures i used for the contents page were from gigs of existing bands. The other two were from the photo shoot for the front cover image, and the last was a picture made to look like a genuine paparazzi picture. For all of these images i edited them by using the all of the auto controls, however for the pictures from the gigs, some were a little fuzzy due to the conditions they were taken in so i used the auto controls on them aswell but not all three of them. For each of the picture i have added the stroke effect so that they stand out.

This is the original image. I have used for the Double page, i have cropped and edited the auto levels, auto contrast and auto colour.
This is the altered image i have used.

The image looks a lot clearer and sharper and so would be suitable for a magazine.

The strucutre of the page i have used a rectangle shape down the side of the right and a banner at the bottom fitting with the front cover. The page has been broken up with thin lines, purple in colour, this to carry on with the colour scheme that i had chosen.

I arranged the pictures on the right side where i had placed the black rectangle shape. All the pictures are at an angle to give the magazine a slight edge. The biggest picture at the bottom was sized this way to show that this is one of the main feature, however this was not the cover picture. The cover picture has its own section on the page, as this is what i have seen in exsisting magazines not just music ones. Usually magazines tend to have a section of what's on the cover. So i decided to do this, but i have not included all the stories on the cover, just the picture and the story behind the quote.

Before starting all the production i had to think about all of the stories i would use, bands, layouts, colour schemes and the genre of the magazine. All of this came form looking at existing magazines.

On this page i have used all the same texts from the front cover to keep in with the house style i have created for my magazine.

For the double page spread i decided to do neither the main feature or the cover story, i decided to do it this way to show off more of what i could do. In the way that i'm not using all the same images from a photo shoot. I thought that it would also show what kind of a magazine it is more. The main feature i have clearly shown on the contents page would be Scouting For Girls interview backstage. So i decided that i would do the double page in the same way that would have been done, backstage and created the page about the up and coming bands that were supporting Scouting For Girls. Doing a backstage interview for a real band was easier for me as it meant that i would not need photo shoot pictures and i would be able to use photos of the actual gig instead.

I had the text for the double page spread in a word document so that i could paste it into publisher once i had the layout worked out. So for the layout i picked the picture i believed was the strongest of the collection i had. I edited it in photoshop and then i decided that i would create the layout in photoshop and import it as a picture into publisher. To make sure that the layout would be the corrext size i set the page up to a3 size so i knew it owuld fit perfectly once it was finished. So after picking the picture and placed it so it would be the left page of the double sread. Underneath i used a black rectanlge shape where i could put the introduction to the interview. On the far right side i created a montage of images for the gig that i thought were the bets. I did it this way, as i had seen it in an exisitng magazine, NME, they used this way of showing a collection of images as there were many artists in the fearure, i thought that this would work. So that i wasn't focusing on an image but the interview. At the top of the page i thought that to break up the page and the amount of text i would use a thin rectangle shape across the right page. I have also included the name of the magazine in the top right hand corner, as some magzines have the name of their magazine throughout with the page numbers i decided that i didn't want it to be so small and i wanted it focused throughout.

Once i had finished the layout for the pages i imported it as an image to publisher then created text boxes adn pasted my text in from word. I picked out points from the interview and used them as pull out quotes from the text. Practically all magazines do this aswell as some newspapers, so i needed to make sure the pull out quotes were interesting as they are what capture your attention and makes you want to read the story.