Planning my Contents Page

Photoshoot for Contents Page

For my contents page photo shoot I decided to visit some scary looking locations to try and extend the mysterious, serene atmosphere to try and capture some images for the contents page, I went to some churches and old buildings with statues in them to try and encapsulate what I was wanting for the magazine. I used photoshop techniques to edit the images after I had taken them and experimented with different textures, brushes and adjustment layers.

Final Images

After sorting through the photos I had taken I decide that these were the two I liked the most as they would fit in best with the rest of the magazine and the overall house style.

Indecision

I couldn't decide out of the two images which one I liked best, and after requesting feedback from different people, there was not a clear favourite. I liked the subject of the statue in the first one, but I liked the colours and lighting in the second one, after much deliberation between the pros and cons of both images, including assessing the lighting, colours, subject and angles of the images, I came up with a compromise...

CompromiseThis is the final compromise that I came up with: it combines both the images to create one visual. I did this by cropping both images to different extents and then colour correcting both images and overlaying them over each other. I then used different brushstrokes to edit different textures on top. I was very happy with the results and thought it fitted in nicely with the overall theme of the magazine and the house style.

Contents Page Draft 1

This was my initial design for my contents page, although I liked the title and the text and fonts, I wasn't sure about the picture placement or the white background, I thought it didn't fit with the magazine.

Second DraftAfter feedback, the general feeling was that the white contents page did not fit with the rest of the magazine, and that the picture placement was wrong. This is the second draft of my contents page. I used a cropped version of the background I had created for the double page spread to guarantee continuity throughout the magazine.

Draft 2 Feedback

After reviewing and peer reviewing my second draft of my contents page, it was agreed that I needed to put the image back into it. The problem I had was the placement, the original placement in the bottom right hand corner didn't work so I had to choose somewhere else.

Final DraftThis is my final draft of my contents page. I decided to put the image in the top right hand corner, I feel this looks much better. I also slightly adjusted the contrast and colour corrected the image so that it fits with the background more.

Favourite FeaturesI really like the inclusion of the magazine masthead in the contents page title, it looks stylistically good as well as reinforcing the house style.

I like the bold and bigger sized text compared to the regular smaller sized text.

The language used is typical of a music magazine aimed at a youthful audience, it is satirical, slightly sarcastic and very pretentious.

I like the inclusion of the fitting image, it balances the contents page.