26/03/13 my Front Cover so far

So I have been working on my front cover still, as well as my Double Page Spread. I am fast approaching the deadline but I feel ahppy enough with my current progress, and I feel that this could be the final thing on the condition that my teacher also agrees.

Firstly, to make this how it looks I have changed a lot of things and the first thing that I did was change the opacity on the footer bar that portrays 'Tickets to Leeds festival' as I wanted to make

it seem more spontaneous rather than the solid block colour that it previously was, as well as this I added in a new shape that would be the base of my main headline, and I also altered the opacity on this so that you could still see my model in the background. To me this still wasn’t enough so I tilted it along with the text. Even still it just didn’t satisfy me so I added some lines that would give it that extra edge and allow it stand out from a crowd of magazines. I decided to line my sell lines out generically so that they were simple, and easy to read and I put them all, apart from my exclusive sell line on the right hand side because this is seen as the ‘weaker’ of the sides due to us reading from left to right. However, I did place my exclusive on the right hand side but that was down to the fact there was very little space left on the magazine. Another big difference on my magazine was the editing of the masthead in which I played around with for about 30 minutes to give it that extra, alluring, attractive, and enigmatic of looks. On this magazine I have stuck firmly to my three colour pallet scheme in which is also portrayed on my models clothing, and this allowed my magazine to look more appealing rather than a mess of colours. I went onto a barcode generator to generate my own barcode, and the barcode portrays a few random numbers and ‘BottledMag’ just to give it that more professional of looks.

I added a new background with a pattern of a wall (although the brick are very small) and I coloured it blue with a gradient from a slightly lighter blue to a darker blue. I liked this addition because I felt it added another element that could help attract my target audience.

13/03/13 My Front cover so far

So last Friday’s magazine front cover wasn’t the most appealing thing to look at so I decided to take some drastic changes to seriously up my potential grade!

After three days of production, from Monday, Tuesday and today (Wednesday) I have changed a lot, and I will continue to do so!

So here is the newer copy!

I have changed a lot when it comes down to the technical side. First of all I got rid of the bottle as it was taking up too much space while distracting the audience's attention away from the model. After doing that I decided to enlarge my model before adding a little noise around him to create a blurred exterior layer. I placed my model central of the cover so that his arms looked free and could 'bang the walls of the magazine'.

My model's eyes are above the line of thirds which will allow him to relate to my also, teenaged target audience. Secondly I changed the colour of the footer bar which displays the Leeds festival ticket chance. I chose the colour blue as it is my primary colour and black was dominating the cover beforehand.

Thirdly I arrange all the text so that they slanted all the same way, and I got this idea from peeking at a magazine called 'fourfourtwo' that was lying around during the time of changes. As well as this I decided to change the colours of the text, and by this I meant using white and black in the same sell line.

I decided to add and exclusive sell line as I seen that on a magazine that was also laying around the classroom. As well as this I added a 'plus' sell line which joins the Leeds festival chance.

I added some custom shapes and coloured them with my primary colour, I did this because I wanted it to gain attention but at the same time, I didn’t want it to distract the attention from my main sell line.

My man sell line took some drastic changes, as like the sell lines I changed the colour on some words, putting emphasis on the words in white as they are different from the rest of the sell lines bodies. as well as this text change I changed the font size as I wanted to add emphasis onto certain words and sentences, for example I enlarged 'I' because as it being a first person pronoun it draws a teenage audience as it acts as a piece of speech towards my audience as it is personalised. As well as the letter 'I' I did it to words such as gulp and death.

I added a small enigma on the front cover in the way of 'budding footballer James Francis on how orange juice saved his life' as it instantly engages the audience as they will want to know how on earth orange juice saved someone’s life. The fact that the person in focus is a budding footballer will attract the attention of my male target audience.

I have added a price to my magazine because obviously, like everyone I want to bring in some revenue, at £2.50 per month it isn’t that much money for such a quality magazine.

I added a picture of Balotelli because throughout my male target audience he is very well known for both his antics on and off the football pitch. This will also engage my target audience to open up.

The sell line regarding Dr.Christian will engage an audience because he is from the famous show 'embarrassing bodies' which many a teenager watches due to its freaky nature of people with abnormalities. As well as this is relates to the magazine's purpose to entertain but also inform as it tells my audience what to look out for in or on their body.

That’s it so far and I hope to make more changes to make it even better.

08/03/13 My Front Cover so far

This is my front cover so far (after one week’s worth of production).

To do this I have been seriously stressed out as getting my model into the bottle was very difficult, but I did this by getting two copies of the bottle, one for the back, and one or the front. I then layered my three pictures including the model which was firstly lassoed around. Next I lowered the opacity of the front bottle in order for it to look like my model was inside the bottle.

I have only had time to add one sell line as of yet but that was very simple as I just added a new layer before typing in my text and then tilting it to add a spontaneous effect.

I added a gradient for the background to add a bit of colour as well as making my magazine front cover looking unique to the traditional mag. I added this with the gradient tool after choosing my desired colours. I predominantly used the colour blue to relate to my male target audience, as well as using the colours black and white. These three colours form my three colour pallet scheme.

I downloaded the 'varsity regular' font for my headline and footer. This was very difficult as the colleges supposed improved system failed and stopped me from doing so fluently.

I added a footer to attract an audience that enjoy music.