Final Interview page

I re-created my interview page which although I was originally very proud of for the quality on publisher I was disappointed either way and began to rethink my ideas. By doing this I started thinking of and re-writing up a new interview for the magazine, as the other had been very boxy, and too much to take in, so I felt the need to make it smaller, shorter and sweeter, and a lot more reader friendly in order to keep their attention there whilst making it catchy and a lot more casual so that the reader is obviously reading something like this on the way home or during their free time and the purpose of the magazine is to give news on entertainment, entertain and to keep the reader wanting more, from this spreadpage I was quite lost at what to do, and then whilst getting dressed, I had a shirt in which there was onomatopaiea art (such as "Pow", "Bam", "Zooom" etc.) And it occured to me, that I wanted to give a more personal approach with my magazine alongwith whoever I had interviewed and inspiring the idea for poloaroid photos, which were captioned by using quote from the interview so therefore co-ordinating with the photos within the polaroid style image and acting as both captions and pull quotes. I also used a spraypaint effect which had music is my language as text within it, which helped me title the interview "music is my language". The splats in corner are used to symbolise the creativity, and the mix of colours is similar to the mix's of the DJ's. His pose is as such so that he's looking at the music is my language stamp, his ipod and pointing towards the splats. Another reason for the onomatopaeia is the resemblence of his youth. Here it is:

Final Contents page

After a lot of trial and error, and having a look at magazines, I ended up doing something conventional, since I didnt see the point in challenging the convention for the contents page, as it was meant to be one which was detailed and caught the readers eye for what elses included inside, which is not mentioned on the front page. After looking at t a RWD magazine, I saw their contents page and really enjoyed the feel of it, as I myself just based on the photos decided to actually use their layout, while added a few extras which I though were quite interesting, Heres the contents page:

Front cover final

After making re-arrangement and looking for the faults on my previous front cover I felt the need to completely re-do it, here it is:

Also by the time I had finished this, I felt the need to re-do the rest too, which meant that I had to have another photoshoot, due to the terrible quality of the previous boy model, but I still wanted to make use of the album cover for the contents page, so that was kept.

Masthead design

This was the design I used as my masthead for my refurbished magazine which I complied on photoshop, learning techniques and obtaining ideas from using tutorials in which I self tutored myself to be able to use photoshop. The reason behind the mastheads "cracks" within the word 'RAVE!' is due to the fact that in raves or in house party's things do get damaged pretty much and those cracks represent a night to remember, and in this particular case an issue to remember.

Photoshoot, 3rd one

I realised that I definately needed a few more things to be done with my magazine, one of which was to actually re-do a photoshooot, this time paying more attention to the clothing, mis-en-scene. The photos I selected were:

Interview spread draft/layout self criticism

Heres the interview spread for the magazine:

Well out of the three, I felt that the interview spread was my personal favourite and probably the best of page of them all. Reasons being that I managed to use the pictures to create a flow of text which allowed me to give a great effect which made the reader, read from left to right and drew them in. But also at the same time, the quality could have been a lot of better and the text URGENTLY needs to be purged and embedded into the page to make it shorter, because right now it is pretty much just a bunch of text, and i believe that I could express this better and also improving the way its presented showing the capabilities of the language used and more entertaining plus a lot more reader-friendly and gripping.

Contents draft/layout self-criticsm

Heres the contents:

Now after looking at this.. I felt that I could obviously change out and change up the layout a lot more. Such as moving the editors letter to the left hand side of the page since in actual fact people in general tend to read from left to right and move the main image to the right so that it is structured in a way that the more important topics within the page are acknowledged and noticed earlier so that the reader can think of what appeals to them within the magazine.