Media AS

M a k i n g o f t h e C o n t e n t s P a g e

Photo’s for Contents Page

What I have done here is by hand drawn a rough plan on what I want my Contents page to look like. As you can see I have sketched roughly where I want the photographs to be. Through this I have been able to distinguish where the empty space lies and thus able to create text. What I haven’t shown on this plan is the colour scheme, but I want to focus it on red and have shades of different levels of white and blacks.

Cover Plan

Editing the Background

This is the background for my contents page. As you can see I used the gradient tool to perform this.

This was the main image that I want to use for my contents page. I imported it into Photoshop and here is where I will cut it out.

I used the magnetic tool to get the rough outline of the subject. But then I went around with a rubber having a softened edge. This

smooth’s it out.

Here I have added my main image and the title. The title is the other part of my masthead. This is not finalised and you will see

the change through out.

Here I have added a lot more text and other photographs. As you can see I have a lined the text to wrap round the images to create fluidity. I have also inalised the title and added the date etc. I used

different shadowing techniques to create stand out effects.

Another thing I wanted to add was the different “contact points” for the magazine. I Got the logos off Google, and then I needed to

cut them out and size them in Photoshop.

Final Contents Page This is the final contents page I produced on Photoshop. In this I have included a masthead, photographs, page numbers and other textual headlines. I continued to follow the colour scheme from the cover. What I really focused on is having the connection between images and photographs. This works really well and the page looks professional. Another technique I used was to create shadowing behind my text, this makes it stand out and allows it to be seen easier on top of images or different coloured backgrounds. Finally I added contact points at the bottom like a real magazine. I got this idea from my research.

Evaluation

By having a pre made plan for what my contents page was going to look like, really helped me because I had an idea that I was able to follow. Having said that a few things changed from the plan with the final, such as the positioning of the photographs.

My colour scheme went well and I was pleased with the stylish look. I made sure all the text was easy to read and went well with the background colours. I also changed certain lettering to suite such as the word “Content” at the top. I personally feel this gives a really good effect and I learnt this from my preliminary task.

I also added the “follow us on…” at the bottom, a lot of modern magazines do this now and I thought it would be a good Idea to put this at the bottom with icons of Face book, Twitter and YouTube. These are the three most popular sites for viral advertising and blogs etc.

I think this contents page looks the part and has all the features of a professional magazine contents page should. I think it goes well with the cover, it keeps to the colour scheme, has the same model in the images, same writing.