Production Update

So far I have finished my front cover and have just finished my contents page also. Which I have included pictures of at the bottom of this post. To make my magazine front cover I included things like a barcode which I created myself on paint shop pro. I also made sure I included what would be inside the magazine and I made sure that my double page spread feature was the main focus on the magazine. I had to change my colour scheme but I believe that this made the magazine look a lot better than it would have looked if I had left it how it was.

Then I moved on to my contents page. I made sure I took a look at my first draft because even though, the colour scheme was going to be different I wanted to make sure I still followed the same layout of the first draft that I was going to do in the first place. I made sure I did this. I put a little note from the editor at the bottom as I believe that this connoted proffesionallism. I also added pictures of people who were going to be featured in the magazine a long the right hand side. I followed the theme of woods and greens and reds on my contents page as I believe that having the same colour scheme throughout the magazine makes it look like it has been thought about and it makes the magazine look a lot more proffesional which is what I was aiming for.

I am just about to start my double page spread. Like my other pages I will look at my first draft to get the jist of what I was going to do and make sure I follow the same sort of theme. However, I looked at my draft and I said I would try and make it look like a movie. I dont think this will be possible as when I took my pictures I found it too hard to do and my model wasnt that comfortable will being very dramatic. I will have to change what I wanted to do, but I will make sure that I follow the same sort of theme throughout the magazine.

I am going to give myself a week at least to be able to finish my double page spread.