Draft of double page spread

To assist in my knowledge of what the appearance of my double page spread of my magazine may be like, I decided on creating a draft copy of it, so I could put the ideas in my head onto paper and see if my sketch designs from earlier were workable or not.
Below is the draft copy that I’ve made, as well as some annotations that explain my designs.

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To aid the designing process I asked my audience for their thoughts on my double page spread draft.
Here is what they had to say, powered creatively by Voki.

Draft of contents page

To help me understand what the contents page of my magazine may look like, I decided to make a draft copy of it, so I could properly formulate my ideas and see if my sketch designs from before worked well or not.
Below is the draft copy that I’ve made, as well as some annotations that explain my reasoning.

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I asked my audience for their thoughts on the draft copy of the contents page. Here are their reactions, powered interactively by Voki.

 

Draft of front page

To gain an understanding of what my front cover for my magazine could potentially look like, I decided to create a draft copy of it, so I could play around with my ideas and see if my previous sketch designs worked well or not.
Below is the draft copy that I’ve created, as well as some annotations explaining my choices.

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To get an understanding of what I could improve on this I asked my audience for their thoughts, presented here by interactive online tool, Voki.

Photographs

Subjects
I’ve asked my two friends Alice and Livi who I know very well to be the subjects for the photographs that I’m going to use in the production of my magazine. I chose them because I think that they suit my magazine’s genre and also as we’re close friends it’ll be easier for us to get a clearer and more casual shot – which is what I’m aiming for.

Photographs – unedited
These are just a few of the many photographs that I took, I haven’t uploaded all of them that I may use as we’d be here donkeys years.

Here is what my audience thought of the photographs, creatively powered by Voki.

Photographs – edited

After taking the photographs and looking through them analytically, I decided to edit them by cross process. I did this using the online editing tool, Picnik (like Photoshop). Here is what my photographs looked like post-editing.

Here is what my audience thought of the edited versions of the photographs, interactively powered by Voki.

Designs for masthead

I used the website bannerfans.com to create five individual mastheads for my music magazine. My preference out of the five is the second down, as I think it’s original and I personally like the font choices. I can tweak these as the process goes on.

 

Here is what my audience thought of these designs, creatively powered by Voki.

Sketch layouts of front, contents and double page spread

Here I’ve designed and sketched my initial ideas for my front, contents and double page spread of my music magazine. I’ve gone for a quite simplistic and minimalistic feel, as I think it’s more about the featured story rather than bombardment of confusing waffle.

 

Here is my audience feedback for these three sketches, interactively powered by Voki.

 

 

Initial video: Storyboard

For our group intial video task, we created a storyboard which shows our planned camera shots, angles as well as transitions. This storyboard will help us when filming and editing the video.

Mock up of contents page

I’ve also designed what the contents page of my magazine would look like if it went onto be published professionally.

Mock up layout of front page

I’ve designed what the front page of my magazine will look like. Here is a basic outline, or mock up, of what it will generally look like.