Making my magazine 3

Alot has happen in the past few week. I had a little problem with my files that the magazine was on so the in-design was acting up. however I was able to overcome this by using a mac and starting the whole magazine again X3 all I have to say is that I hate macs there like using a map for the first time with no x and y points. Anyways I pulled through and have created a front page, contents and a DPS using the images from my photo-shoot. 

Here is my contents  page :) ok the font I know will not look like it stands out but being on the macs there was a problem with missing founts and the only one I was able to get back was orange juice but not opificio. I will have to change all the fonts when I go in for my last design lesson next week. so away from the fonts I like the way this page looks, its east to read and as you will see has consistence of colors that run throughout my magazine referring to my target audience of teenage girls. As you can see I have my logo which I said I would put in on the top right hand corner. I will talk about this in a later blog as I explain how I manage to get it there through photoshop.

To make this page better now that ive been looking at it for a while is that the top bit were I have the cover stories I should get rid of the lines and see what that looks like as at the moment it does make the contents page look less professional.

I decided to have my front cover on my contents page as I though it would help my readers find the articles that were on the front cover and I liked the idea that was in top of the pops magazine when they done this; so im following the conventions of them as if it works for them it will work for me. I have also notice that my target audience is not of a high age so the visual of having the front cover will also help younger readers to find and get engage with my magazine. 

Here is my DPS which I tried to recreate from a top of the top magazine artificial but I have change some of the layout of my DPS so it works with my magazine. as you can see my first attempt on the top and my second one on the bottom. 

the troubles I had here was with the arrangement of the article itself, as seen on the top image with the numbers every were which I sorted on the bottom image. I got rid of the numbers as looking at question and answer DPS in other magazine I seen that they don't have the numbers. by doing this I was able to make all the text look more even so the page wasn't a mess. I got rid of the speech bubble and move it to the other side as again this was making all the text go funny. 

I move the text ''Leah pops into the charts cover story'' for the side to the top adding a blue border to make the headline stand out and I used this in my contented page so there is a consistency throughout my magazine. I have the title of my magazine and ''Question and answers page'' on the top of my page as when my readers are flicking through the pages they see this and go to the page. at the bottom of the page I have links to Facebook and twitter which morely so advertised my magazine. the pull quote which I have placed in my speech bubble is hinting at a free album that comes with my magazine which I couldn't put any were else in my magazine due to there wasn't any room. I have also moved one of the images a little to the left so you could see the page number 6 more easily.

I went on Facebook and I wanted to see what the public though of my magazine so far and what I could change which I will take on board and change in my next design lesson. 

The front cover of my magazine. ok the font need to be change I know XD but I like the image and I can see that the font will work with the image that I have chosen for my front cover. i like the effect from my masthead that you can see the person hair through the masthead which looks cool. the logo of my magazine on the left of my masthead im thinking of making it transparent so it goes with my front cover a bit more than it dose now.