The document describes the production process for a magazine cover. It discusses:
1) Choosing black as the background color to make the gold theme color stand out, as black can also represent darkness and conflict relating to the magazine's content.
2) Adding gold-colored top and bottom strips to tie into the gold theme color and catch readers' eyes.
3) Including text in the strips to advertise a fictional music festival and artist, to attract readers and fans of different genres.
4) Positioning headlines on the cover and using different font sizes and colors to highlight important phrases and indicate what each headline is about.
3. Background/colours The first thing I did when I began the production of my magazine is I put the colours in. I was certain on the them colours I wanted to use for my magazine from when I was planning. For the front cover I put in a black background. There are several reasons why I wanted to use black. The main reason is because the gold colour, which is the main theme colour for the magazine, stands out best with black behind it. Secondly, because black can be seen to interpret darkness and conflict, and because my magazine relates in a way to the harsh reality of inner-city living. The purple colour lines in the screen shot are just there as guide lines to give me an idea of where to place all the other aspects of the front cover that I add to the page such as images and headlines. These guide lines can be selected on all pages. On top of the yellow background I have added the conventional top and bottom strips. As you can see they are a gold shaded colour which links in with the theme colour of the magazine. Like I explained above, the gold colour stands out a lot with the black background and this help to attract the audience because as it is the front cover, the gold colour would appear bright and hopefully catch the eye of customers. The writing that is apparent will be explained further on.
4. The next thing I did after I add the top and bottom strip to the page is put text inside the strips, using the rectangular tool.. I chose to do this because it is a key feature to all normal edition music magazines. From the research I did I was able to find this out and acknowledge that real music magazines tend to write sentences or statements in the strips that may persuade people to buy the magazine and see what’s inside. So I did something similar. Horizontally, the strips do not take up a lot of space but are very effective. In the top strip I wrote some brief information about a prize. I made up a T4 music festival and advertised the chance to win four V.I.P. tickets to it. I added to it the appearance of an artist ‘MdotJ’ who’s pictures are in the magazine. The person is actually just a friend of mine in my class but he is represented as a artist in the magazine. This advert is there to attract people to buy the magazine for the V.I.P. tickets. T4 music festival do actually exist but the one I’m advertising does not. The reason why I chose to advertise a T4 music festival is because the showcase artists of different genre’s so from doing this I have given the hope of attracting fans of other genre’s apart from Grime to buy the magazine. I have used the red colour for the font because red is the third them colour of my magazine. Plus, the red colour emerges well from the gold colour of the strips. The strips
5. Headlines After inputting the strips in, I add the headlines to the front cover. As you can see I have used the guidelines to help me position the headlines on the page. The font I have used for the headlines is ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’ in a bold format. The colour of the font is yellow apart from the specific words or phrases to in each headline that I have made red with a yellow outer glow. Similar state follows with the font size. I have made the font size bigger than the rest for the words and phrases I have chosen to highlight. The reason for this is because the highlighted phrases are the most important part of the headline and they indicate to the reader what the headline is all about.
