College Magazine Progress

Before working on my music magazine, I have decided to make a college magazine to develop my understanding of Photoshop and InDesign.

This is the first draft of my magazine. I have decided on the name The Prior Preview as the alliteration creates flow and links in with the College theme. The photo I chose for the background was used as it the winding path creates a welcoming impression, further re-enforced by the image of me smiling. The typography I have chosen suggests professionalism and formality, it presents the college in a suitable manner. The background image I have chosen in the contents page was used as the pillars create a rule of three, with the walls on the left and right sides. This allowed me to easily separate the contents page into three segments. I edited the image in Photoshop the contents text to be seen clearer. However, this proved to be unsuccessful. The articles featured link to my audience questionnaire as there are articles relating media and clubs available at Prior.

This is the second draft of my magazine.The masthead has been recolored and Contents Header to further fit Prior's house style and the image of me has been edited in Photoshop using the "auto colour" tool to make me blend into the background more and look less "grey" as I did in previous images. The background image has been edited to compliment the text and look more attractive.  

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This is the third draft of my magazine. I have added a plug which states "First Ever Issue!" to attract an audience as it suggests importance. The plug has been edited on Photoshop using the shape, text, and gradient tool. 

This the fourth and final draft of my magazine. Conventions such as a barcode and price have been added to give my magazine a more professional look. The content's font has been recolored to stand out more against the background and more text has been added to remove dead space. One of the images has been relocated to again remove dead space and to make the contents look more appealing.

 Overall I think that for my first time using InDesign, my draft magazine has been successful. I have most of the conventions found in my research to create a magazine for a specific  audience (in this case College Students) whilst organizing them in a way that creates a professional and neat layout. Images have been edited to make them more visually appealing.