Production Process

Front Cover

Contents Page

• Using Quark Express I began to create the layout for my contents page

• I then imported text

• I then created picture boxes and imported my images. I then created a graphic feature of an advertisement which I was inspired to do so from other rock magazine. I chose the colour green as it was common colour used in magazines such as Kerrang. I then added the issue number and date next to the title.

• Next, I began to experiment with my colour scheme and wanted to explore the different layouts I could use. However although the colour red followed my scheme I felt it was too bright and didn’t have connotations of the rock genre. Again after feedback, we felt the advert feature didn’t work and so I

removed it.

• Instead I decided to use the colour black fro my background and instead use the red and white for text. I decided the images weren’t appropriate and not of the best quality so used different images.

• Next I changed the colour of page numbers to red separating them from cover lines. Again I rearranged the layout, I found that from looking at magazines e.g. Kerrang, Bass etc. That the page was always full and sometimes looked crammed, so I decided to make my layout look full and stand out ‘in your face’.

• To follow the codes and conventions I imported an image of my Masthead onto the contents page and centred it. I then began to create graphic feature boxes for page numbers next to my images. I also created graphic feature boxes for regular/features titles.

• This was another attempt at a contents page draft with all my chosen images and layout complete.

• However after feedback I felt that some of the images weren’t as good as they could have been and didn’t really portray the rock genre. I retook the pictures and decided to have only one column of writing. I rearranged the positioning of the title and issue date. I then also added white graphic features and changed the original green features to yellow.