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this is my blog which I've been adding to throughout this coursework. The music magazine I've made is in the hip-hop/alternative genre.
Below you'll find my finished music magazine cover, contents page and double page spread as well as the evaluation questions, research and planning, college magazine and the tasks I had to do before creating this.
My blog will start with my finished college magazine, go on to the evaluation, then research and planning and finally my college magazine.

Monday, 19 March 2012

Research and Planning: Creating my Double Page Spread

 This is the original picture I took for my double page spread, the image is too yellow as artificial train lights were on when this picture was took.
 I changed the levels and colour balance settings on photoshop to change the colours to look a lot more natural and just better quality, I also cut out the picture of my model, copied and made it a new layer, then made the background blurry, this would make the lines in the background more subtle so when I put text over the top the text would be readable.

 I then added in my magazine name and the page numbers of my double page spread, I made this font size 9 as they only need to be small
 I then added a title in a font which looked like it had been drawn on, this added the young feel I wanted this page to convey.
I then thought how I could draw the audience in and make them want to read the double page spread story (interview) I thought if a added in something the model had said in the interview then maybe they'd think that was interesting and read on, so i added in a tagline.
I then added in who the interview was with as this would once again make the audience want to read it more if they were flicking through quickly.
Then I added the boxes the text would go in front of, this would make the text easier to read.
I then wrote in the interview/double page spread story, I used a white font in order to make it as easy to read as possible.
Next I imported the poloroid looking picture viewers I'd previously made in photoshop.
I then put in the pictures I wanted the borders to surround.
After a few more tweaks this was the final double page spread design.

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