Final Magazine Elements.

Adding Article to Double Page Spread

Adding Text to Double Page Spread

I decided to test out the test on my double page spread, After trying pastel shades of yellow, blue and green I decided that black actually looked the best and was the easiest to read. After testing different font types I found that Tw Cen MT was my favourite, as I tried to find an unusual font that would fit the magazines theme, but actually a plain text looked better, but still quite feminine. I used the font in size - 9.25 pt as this made it clearly readable, but also left a lot of space to right a fairly long article.

Double Page Spread Interview

So jamie how does it feel to suddenly be recognised almost everywhere you go?

Its absolutely mad yeah! I was even asked for my autograph the other day, thats when the whole thing really hit home.

And is this industry what you imagined it to be?

Honestly - it’s harder work than i expected, but I have been through much harder to get to where I am today. Its loads of fun and you get to meet some pretty amazing people so the hard work definitely pays off.

Sounds great, whos the most influential person you’ve met so far?

Alex Turner for definite! Its amazing to be able to talk to someone of such high status and still have things in common, for what he’s acheived he’s so down to earth - Great guy.

Yeah he’s a reknowned nice guy, but how has this whole process been affecting your ego?

Well i’ve never been full of myself, what’s the point? Everybodies equal at the end of the day - just some people are luckier than others. I guess.

Speaking of luck, with fame usually comes a lot of freebies, have you received anything substantial?

Well actually my favourite brand Stockholm, sent me out 3 sweatshirts and 2 pairs of jeans last week. They’d noticed me wearing the brand in a few press photo’s and it’s been giving them publicity so I guess they were repaying the favour

Wow, that must’ve been a nice surprise. So speaking of fashion, is it an influential thing to you, or do you see it as just clothes?

It’s definitely not just clothes, I think the way you dress reflects the person you are, thats why i’m always dressed in light hearted colours with subtle accessories. I dont take myself too seriously - and I think that shows through the way I dress.

That’s an interesting way to look at things, so your style isn’t influenced by anybody in particular?

I see my style as a geeked up, hip hop style, and i suppose if I could nail my influences down to a singular person it’d be Pharrel Williams.

Thats unusual as he dresses a lot like you, but you have very contrasting music styles.

Yeah, I guess my music and my look contradict each other, as most people imagine acoustic artists to model themselves asthough they were brought up on a farm, but I was brought up in a city, surrounded by street style.

Well it is obvious to see that the balance between the two works really well. Unfortunately it seems that i've squeezed as much time out of you as i'm going to be given, but as myself and the in flux readers would love to hear more about you and your rise to fame, maybe we can revisit this interview again further down your promising music career. It's been a pleasure speaking with you, and I wish you the best of luck for the future.

I wanted to keep the questions and answers to a style that would fit the artists outlook, he is not an excitable person, nor is he obnoxious and rude, he is infact a reserved person, that is passionate about his career. I feel the interview is ok, it could maybe do with some tweaks so that it flows better though.

Adding Page Numbers

Adding page numbers was straight forward as I already had the font type ready from the contents page. My contents page was named as number "2" as behind the front cover would be named as the first page. For my double page spread, I decided to only number one of the pages, as it is altogether one article. I decided to use this technique - not only because it will be much neater, and allow the article to have a better continuity but also as I have seen this technique used before in successful magazines.

Changing Double Page Spread After Feedback

My main focus for the double page spread was with the continuity, to fulfill this I spread the title over the two pages and used the lace over both pages. I also used the polaroid effect again to connect it to the contents page and make the magazine flow. In my opinion this page is aesthetically pleasing and fits my initial magazine brief very well.

Final Mock Double Page Spread

Effects/Skills/Techniques I have used to create this double page spread:

- To allow the brown paper to fade into the background rather than stand out I feathered the edges at 20 px, I think this worked very well and looks alot better than just having a raw cut image.

-I turned the contrast up and the brightness down on the photos that run along the side to give a very bold effect, against the faded colour of the background image (i'd turned down the saturation to give this effect).

-I scanned ribbons, and buttons in and cut them out, I then turned the brightness down and the contrast up to give them a bold effect.

- I used the magic wand tool to select certain areas that needed colouring, e.g. title font

- I changed the opaquity to 75% on the photos along the side to allow them to fade into the background - without being lost altogether.

After showing my teachers my double page spread I have been advised to experiment further with the following things;

-Contrast/brightness on jamie in the main photograph as it is a little too bright,

-Making the page symmetrical so that nothing will get lost into the fold,

-Experiment with fonts for the article, and maybe use fridge magnets for the heading.

Draft Magazine

Conclusion: Unfortunately I made poor use of my time management, I spent too much time fiddling with my front cover, and just 'threw' together the contents and double page spread. In all honesty I will probably only use very minute details from these two elements. There are of course some elements I feel went well, e.g. use of torn paper and buttons and effects such as greyscale. But overall these elements are not what I want for my magazine atall.

Initial Ideas for Double Page Spread

Firstly, I know that I want to do an interview, as this is relevant to an up-and-coming music magazine as people will want to know more about featured artists, but also as I can use questions that tie the fashion and art themes into the magazine. I don't want to ask ordinary, boring questions that will just allow you into their musical life, I want to ask other curious questions that may sound childish - but i'm sure it's something people are interested to know. Here are questions that I could use;

What is your favourite item of clothing?, What's your favourite colour?, If you were left on a desert island what item would you take?, Who is your favourite musician?, What is your favourite food?, etc. - silly questions but unusual, fun and could provoke quite interesting answers that can show personality well.

I also want to have a sort of photo montage of the featured artist, it would be good if I could find a way to make the photographs look unusual asthough from a photobooth, or from a polaroid camera or on a negatives strip.