First attempt of my front cover

This is the first draft of my front page of my magazine. i have cut the surroundings out of this image and just left the artist in the middle.

I also have the masthead on the top of the front page, and the strap line underneath the masthead. The strap line is what the initials of the magazine.

original photograpghy

Here are all of the original photography that i have taken for both my front page and my contents page.

Pre Lim task contents page

This is the contents page for my pre lim task. This is a contents page for a sports magazine for my school.

I have had ideas from people because i did some research and asked people what the main sports for our school is and what colours they represent our school. i have based my contents page on what people have said.

Doing this task has helped me get used to using photo shop and has made me aware of what has to be put on a contents page. This has made it better for me because when i have to make my contents page for my music magazine i will be able to understand what to easier and i will be more familiar with the program photo shop so i will be able to a really good contents page.

This is a contents page taken from a man lifestyle magazine.

Compared to the women's lifestyle magazine contents page, this contents page has several images on it. This is done because this contents page doesn't have headings so they use pictures to help inform the customer what is in the magazine without actually saying what is in the magazine.

They use large page numbers so people can easily see what page they need to go to to get the specific items that they want to read in the magazine.

The use of the very bold heading '100% useful' is because then customers will believe and think that everything that people need to read is in this magazine and is completely useful for men's everyday life. It also makes people trust the magazine because then they will believe everything that is written in it.

Although there are no headings to say what articles are in each section of the magazine. Some of the magazine is broken up into sections by different colored lines. This is good because people know without headings what items are on similar topics and what items are in similar categories of the magazine.

This is a content page of a magazine called ELLE magazine. The magazine has a content of People, Features, Report, Insight, Fashion, Looks, Travel, Cuisine and Elle-Ments.

The main coulour of this magazine is red. They have matched the masthead colour and the main headings colour to show that the magazine has a theme.

The magazine has a very simple content page. This is good because the magazine is simple its a women's lifestyle magazine and thats what it is, its not fussy. the main focus of the contents page is the two pictures of the girls. both the gilrs used on the content page are very glamourous. this helps entice people into reading the magazine because people will belive that they may be able to look like the mdoels on the content page.

Also under the masthead is the date of when the issue was printed. This reassures the customer that the issue they are reading is current to the fashion and people scene.

NME Double Page Spread

This is an Article from an issue of NME.

The picture and the writing are on separate pages. this is so the artist doesn't over power the writing because she is on another page. Also it is don't so the pages look neat and tidy because there is not too much fuss just on one page. The way the Artist is sitting is a very sophisticated and confident pose this shows that she is good and powerful artist.

The colors of here clothes contrast with the colours she is sitting on because the colour she is wearing is dark and deary, where as the colors she is sitting on are either bright and warming or natural. This makes the artist Florence and the machine stand out from the surrounding colours

In the back ground there are the letters 'USA'. This stands for United States of America. the artist Florence and the machine is an English artist, so i think that the 'USA' means she is going to try and concur the 'USA' with her music. also over lapping the letters 'USA' is the sentence 'got the love'. this could also mean that she loves the USA or that she thinks the USA are going to love her music and what she is about.

Marie Claire content page

This is a content page from one of Marie Claire's issues.

The main pictures in the middle of the content page are all images that are main features of this article. Having the pictures on the content pages helps give the reader a feel for what there is supposed to be in the main magazine itself. On every picture there is a number next to it, this number shows what page the article is on. this helps the reader so they can go straight to the article and see what the picture is all about easily.

At the top of the page is Marie Claire's website. They do this so people know that they have a website and because it shows the reader that they can get more information and more articles and features on the website.


Also under the main heading 'Content' is the date that the issue was sent out. This assures the reader that the fashion, celebrity gossip and everything else inside the magazine is up to date with what is happening all around the world.

on the bottom of the page is all the content of the magazine. It is separated into different sections in which the there are different articles underneath the headings. they do this so people can go straight to the parts of the magazine that they want to read or look at, without having to search through a random list of content. Also underneath the content is a little summary of what the article or feature is about so the reader can see if that part of the content is what they would like to read.