This is my final sketch of the contents page
This is my final sketch of the double page spread
This is the typeface I will use
for my page titles:
for captions, subheadings and contents page:
for the text:
This is the colour scheme I will use
This is a selection of photos I will use
This photo will be my main photo on the front cover. It will be the biggest photo in the magazine so any facial flaws will need to be airbrushed out. His eyes are facing directly forward to catch the readers attention. I have taken this photo like all the others on a black background so it will be easy to cut around and hard to spot any mistakes on the dark magazine background. Because I want to put a large headline overlapping this photo I will need to extend the bottom of the photo using the clone tool so the title overlaps the t-shirt only and not the face.
This is the photo I will use on the front cover to go behind the main artist. It will be darkened and much smaller than the main photo but the same attention should be paid towards removing blemishes and cutting out.
The following two photos are very similar. The clothing and stance are basically the same however the facial expressions of the subjects are different which will give readers an insight into the personality of the two musicians. The expression in the face of the second photo looks slightly worried so I think I will have to change the shape of the mouth slightly with the warp brush. I will curl the edges of the mouth up slightly to make it more like a cheesy grin
rather than a worried grimace. I will also use the warp tool to manipulate the shape of the hair in picture #2 to make the quiff more defined. I will use the Hue/Saturation/Lightness tool to make the eyes of picture #1 more blue to stand out.
The idea for this photo was inspired by the photo on the contents page in the NME magazine I analysed. They showed a snapshot of the band in their apartment but it wasn't taken professionally. This photo is supposed to look like a quick unprepared snapshot and I will put it in my double page spread with a caption about listening to their new album.
This photo was taken in London on the South Bank. I decided to go to London with friends to take photos for my magazine. Instead of taking a professional camera I decided to buy disposable cameras in London because I like the style of pictures they take because they feel more personal and nostalgic. I thought the South Bank would be a good opportunity to take some interesting photos, luckily there were a lot of street performers there that day which is where I got the photo of the policeman in a tutu. I think I will put this photo in the contents page as a story about a celebrity embarrassing themselves.
