'Double page spread' in the making

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Day 1:All I have simply done is put in the correct page dimensions and added my text to it's correct page and altered it slightly.Here are the results:

Day 2: Today I have mainly focused on my double page spread.I have attempted to take my double page spread away from the conventional page and changed the layout of it however I have used one central image,which is the only thing that you can relate from my magazine to a conventional magazine to mine.I have yet to add some head shot to fill in the gaps on the second page as at the minute there is to much white at this moment in time.

Day 3: I thought the right hand side looked abit plain so I have decided to fill it with musical ratings.

Day 4: Today I have decided to tweak and fine lined everything and this is my FINISHED product of my double page spread.

'Contents page' in the Making

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Day 1: So I have just started my contents page, now I will admit I had no design ideas going into this, meaning i've research some however because my music genre is so unique I couldn't really research any similar pages so I was going on pure imagination.I know I would like this page to represent the life of a star, so chilled and relaxed yet so important and vital to the stage.This is why I have the foot like holding up the title of the page, because without the foot the title will fall, with contrasts with a star, without the star there is no good performance.

Day 2: I have started to tweak some fonts now and have started to sort of number pages drastic change to say its only day 2 that i've worked on this but I'm happy with the way it's heading.I have decided to change the overall font of the title contents because I felt that font just looked like the font on the back of some playing cards therefore I have gone and am going to stick with this font 'Orange Juice'.

I'm still playing around with a-bit of colour and sizes of certain things like the images.

Day 3:Today I have added a little bit more of the musical element by adding the good witch from wicked and I have edited the back ground colours and some of the fonts so that it doesn't look so plain.Here are my results from today.

Day 4: today i have tried to make my contents page tidier and attempted to add little tweaks to see if i could decrease the amount of free space.

Day 5:we I have just developed my contents page and I have now started to try all the colours matched together

Day 5: As I have decide to change my whole theme to suit my artist of Toulouse Lautrec i have decided to make my main image really cartoony to tie in with the front page so heres the results and I feel this might be the version I stick with.

Day 6: I have decided against the carton foot because I feel it made the page feel quite plain therefore. and here is my final page.

Day 7 :RIght this is it I'm not changing it anymore.Here I have added my forth original images and wrapped the text around it and here is my final result.

Day 8:I have tweaked some colours and fine lined everything, here is the FINISHED product of my contents page.

My Progress

In my first term I feel that I have made a lot of progress as I hadn't even done one lesson of media before starting this class.Our first major task was to design a magazine for a school.At first I found this task really hard as I wasn't familiar with any of the software we using, I wasn't even that sure about using the apple Macs to be honest.So my first attempt was okay I guess for my first try, however when we went through it I saw the mistakes I have made and I know now not to make them therefore i've learnt something I guess.You can't really see the title and even then it was a mouthful to pronounce.I made common mistakes like underlining and not lining my page up probably therefore I will not be making them next time but overall for my first magazine I feel it's an okay attempt.The feedback I got was:

• Underlining makes it look abit tacky.
• Colours like on the tytitle are abit confusing to read.
• Make sure th page is lined up probably.
• Make sure the fonts match as the acticles spoilers dont match.
• The starat the top looks tacky and makes the magazine looks cheap.
• The magzine doesn't really have a focus.(No Main image) 

My contents page I found was easier to design then the front cover and this was because there is less of a resisted convention towards a magazine.I took a picture of a friend over the age of 16 and used her arm to carry the numbers.My contents page looks alittle bare and I know there are alot of images and they make a busy theme throughtout my content page.It's a school magazine therefore I knew pictures of people in uniform and educational props may be the way to go.The people on the left are under the age of sixteen therefore we had to get consent from there parents to photograph them which they all had signed,and authenticated as one of the children is another person in my classes sister.The feeback I got for my contents page:

• Your page numbers dont match as your first page would be your front cover.
• The colour of the textmakes the magzine look cheap and un even.
• You must follow the rule of thirds as the 3 people down the left hand side of the page are not in line.
• The images of just the business dress and the arm is quite effective.
• The page in it but it's quite plain next time add a quote or something.