Final Magazine

These are my final magazine features, which includes a front cover, contents page and double page spread. I feel that all these aspects of a magazine that i have created myself, have succeeded in the best presentation, establishing the music genre, and also attract my audience that i have aimed my music magazine at.

I created my front cover for my magazine on Microsoft publisher, because didn't have programs such as photoshop and my computer at home, however i feel that i still seceded in creating a music magazine front cover. On my front cover i used the main magazine conventions such as a masthead, headline, subhead lings, a main image, dates, price, websites, bar code, colour schemes, all that is needed to create a successful front cover for my music magazine. The main image is in black and white, i decided to edit the photograph black and white because i think it would give contrast and create a good affect. I wanted to main text to be colourful instead of the picture, which i think i was successful in doing this, by using 3 different colours, black, white and red. I also think the layout of my front cover is successful in making everything on the page clear, so that it was easy for the audience to understand and notice. It also allowed the main image to stand out from the page, which shows the main artist and feature of my magazine.

The contents page, that i have chosen to be my final contents page was also created on Microsoft publisher, again because i didn't have programs such as photoshop to create it on. I feel like this contents page could be made better on a different program, but it was unavailable to me at the time. But still, i believe this contents page is successful in its purpose of giving out information to the audience about that is included in the magazine. On my contents page, i used conventions of what i need to make a successful contents page, these included a list of what was included in the magazine and also a title of the page, in this case i used 'contents'. I also used one main image on the contents page, with was an original one i took my self, i edited it in the page, with a black background, i did this by cutting out the model from the background, which makes the photograph stand out from the page.

I also created a double page spread using Microsoft publisher, this was harder to do because i needed to find out how you create a double page spread on publisher. Once i found out how to do it i started creating my double page spread by using the main conventions of a double page spread. I used two different images on my double page spread, one at the left hand side page and a smaller one at the top of the right hand side page, by doing this is created variety but also allowed me to use more of the original photos i took. I also created an interview to go on the left hand side page, underneath the picture, this took two columns up, which was the wright amount of text that would be included in an actual short interview with a celebrity. The colour i used for my double page spread, were different from the ones i used on the front cover and contents page, this again created variety by the different colours used. The colours i used in particular for my double page spread were pink, white and black. The pink brought back the feminine aspect of the artist gender, because it wasn't stated on the front cover by using darker colours such as red. I used a main headline and a subheading on the double page spread. the headline reads the name of the artists featured which is 'Gemma Love' and also the subheadings reads 'she speaks out about her new fame'. which are the main conventional aspects used on a double page spread in a magazine.

Overall i think i was sucessful in creating a front cover, contents and double page spread using publisher. I think i have used all the main conventional aspects that would be found in magazine therefore have created a good magazine that would be sucessful in attracting the audience of my magazine, and estbalishing the music genre in a presentable way.