Magazine Skills Profile

I have now created my magazine front cover and contents page, there are a number of skills that i have used in this module that i used in my film poster work.  For example i used the apply to shape technique (the way i did this can be described in my photoshop skills profile on this page).  I also used the overlay and soft overlay technique.  I used this to make my mast head stand out on both the front page and the contents page, i feel this gave the magazine a much better look and when it would come to launch it would look great on a blown up banner.

Firstly when putting together a magazine this is the industry i would love to move into, so i spend hours looking at existing magazines covers and at what age group they appeal to.  I then looked at the common conventions such as typography, colours, images, and the overall layout of the magazines.  This is something that i had never done before, but annotating the covers soon realised that there are more conventions that first thought.

It was then time to start to put together the sketches for the final idea, we did sketches for when we did our DVD menus at the beginning of the year.  So creating sketches were the easy bit, but these needed to be detailed giving reasons as to why we included what i did.

Because creating a magazine cover, contents and double page spread this would mean that i would need to really organise the way i put together the pages, for example the folders and naming the layers.  This could have been a problem but placing them into folders once i had finished a section seemed to help this.  There were a couple of problems that i came across one instance was were i was putting the images on the double page spread but so they didnt go outside the recipe box, see below...