Research and planning plan for after the holiday

When I come back after the holidays I will be finishing off the magazine covers.

Research and planning model release form2

This is the second model release form where I got Taslima to sign agreeing that it is okay with her if I use her picture in my double page spread.

Research and planning model release form1

This is the model release form where I got the model of my magazine to sign it agreeing that she is ok that I will be using her pictures for my magazine.

Research and planning plan for christmas

Over the Christmas I will be taking pictures of model release forms and uploading them on my blog and write what I will be doing after the holiday.

Research and planning print shot of DPS

Today I started to write the interview in question and answers form for the double page spread.

Research and planning ishowu me working

Research and planning improvement of front cover

Today I took two of the cover lines off as it was too crowded and edited the image by increasing the contrast.

Research and planning feedback sheets from class

These are the audience feedback from my class 

 This person has said that I should stick to the 3 colour rule as I've used too many different colours for my magazine covers. I will try to reduce the number of colours used by changing the colour of the price bubble from yellow to black or white.

 This person has suggested that I should use more bold text for the front cover. I might consider this view by changing the font style of the cover lines.

 This person has suggested that I should neaten the cropping of the main picture. I will consider this view.

 I will use Photoshop editing tools to make the models face look smoother as it looks very oily and unprofessional at the moment.

 This person has said that the front cover looks too crowded therefore, I will need to reduce the number of cover lines and tidy the layout more.

Research and planning social networking feedback on magazine covers

 These are print shots to show that I have used a social network Facebook to get feedback for my front cover and contents page.

Research and planning drafts of my covers so far audience feedback

Today I showed my drafts of the magazine to the whole class and asked for audience feedback. I will be using the feedback to improve the magazine covers.

Research and planning first drafts of front cover and contents page

Today I started writing the cover lines and changed around the font styles and colours. I changed the colour of 'sensation' from green to black because I thought it would look like there are too many different colours. Also, I added a bar-code and a price on the cover.

On the contents page today I added the two images and moved the text boxes closer to each other as there would be too much gap between them when I print it out.

Research and planning fonts to use for double page spread

These are the different types of fonts that I could use for my double page spread main body. I know that Sans-serif font won't be appropriate because they are bold and hard to read in a fast pace and would be suitable for titles. And I know that the Serif font would be suitable font the main body because it has spiky edges and makes it easy to read.

Also, I know that the font size of my main body text should be 12 at maximum because if its any bigger it would be competing with the titles and would look weird.

Research and planning print shot of cover3

Today I cropped the main image again to make it look smoother and cropped off the bottom bit.