Changes to my magazine

   Changes to my front cover of my magazine

This was my original front cover for my music magazine, but I had to change the background to a light grey colour so my overall product didn't look too feminine. There was a lot of the colour pink so by changing the background made it look more professional and sophisticated rather than young and girly. The change to the background also makes it look more edgy which goes with the theme and genre for my magazine. I also did a last minute change to my masthead, I believe it now stands out more and isn't hidden behind my model anymore. I think the masthead looks more like previous music magazines I have analysed therefore I believe changing my masthead was a good idea to do. I increased the brightness to my overall front cover where all the components now flow and feel like they merge together rather than looking like they have been placed on top of each other where it looks amateur, as shown in my previous front cover above.
My final front cover for my magazine is below.

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Changes to my contents page

This was my original contents page to start off with, I had sectioned off the feature stories and cover stories off from the regular stories in order to break the text up on the page. By doing so I had realized the attention either went straight to the images in the top left hand corner or the bottom right hand corner. The text did not seem as important that the separated images as I believed these were more attention grabbing in this layout. I decided to change the layout where I placed all the images on the left hand side of the page accompanied with all the text on the reverse side of the page. I think this layout was a good change to make where both the text and the images are not equally important rather than one being more attention grabbing than the other. My final contents page is below.

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Changes to my double page spread

This was my original layout for my double page spread. From analyzing the work I had already produced and by asking my friends I was aware that there was quite an apparent gap between the text of my main story and the main image on the following page. I decided to extend my double page story where it follows onto the next page where the gap would be filled. I talked about her new album as well as the genre of it and the track list which is on the new album. As well as this, I decided to actually create an album for her where an image of the album would be part of the story which would promote the album as well as fill the gap in my double page spread. My double page spread now includes an inside story with Lily Hudson, as well as information about her album, her album track list and images of what her album looks like. This will be successful as it would make the audience recognize her album when looking in music shops or online. My finished double page spread is below.