Fifth front cover draft

I made my Monique sub image smaller as it was looking stretched.

I changed my other sub image as it was too small to see properly.

I moved the 'for' from my tag line as it looked like it was floating and didn't make sense.

I rotated my tag line so that it fitted better and looked more with the magazine.

I changed the diamond to a circle as it looked more professional. 

Time Management

16/12/16

My aim for this lesson is to finish the improvements for my front cover.

My result of this lesson is that I finished my front cover and started the improvement to my contents page.

Sixth contents page draft.

I changed the image caption for my sub image so that it matches the dominant image caption.
I deleted the text under some of my sections as it didn't look right.
I added another section to my features to make it look more interesting.

Time Management

14/12/16

My aim for this lesson is to add all of missing pieces from my blog to my blog and to continue adding  to my DPS and contents page.

My result of this lesson is that I finsihed my missing sections I also completed a fifth draft go my contents page and fourth draft of my DPS and uploaded them to my blog labeled drafts.   

Fifth Contents Page Draft

I added a background to my image as it looked like they were just floating their.
I changed the colour of the fonts  at the bottom of my article section as they didn't stand out well and this makes them the same I also removed the brackets as it didn't look right.
I moved the guest editor star to the other side and made the font smaller so everything fitted properly I also moved the signature to it was at the end of the writing.
I changed the big image caption so that it looked more professional and look better.
I also added a box for the second image caption so that it stood out.

Fourth DPS Draft

I embedded my drop cap into my article as to makes it look more professional.

Magazine inspiration

This helped me realise what alternative magazines do already exist and how they are presented to there audience. This helped me understand what parts of a magazine I do and don't like and what I would and wouldn't include for magazine to help it to be appealing to customers.

Photos

Time management

9/12/16

My aim for this lesson is to finish my contents page improvements and just start my DPS improvements.

My result of this lesson is that I finished my contents page improvements and did a couple of my DPS improvements.

Fifth contents page draft

I changed the contents title so the font is unique to the masthead.

I changed the cover date and issue number font to make the contents title font unique.

I added a page number.

I added another news section.

I changed the size of all the writing in the futures, freebies and news sections.

I make the guest editor writing bigger and aliened them again.

I added a box around the caption as what I had before didn't look right. 

Third DPS draft

I made the running head smaller.

I changed the title of the article as it didn't look right.

I moved my image caption with the image.

I changed the bylines to just one.

I moved one of the pull quotes so that it wouldn't be in the staple line.

I changed the image caption as it clashed with the sub title.  

Time Management

7/12/16

My aim for this lesson is to finish the improvements for my front cover and start the improvements for my contents page.

My results of this lesson is that I have finished my font cover improvements and have just began my improvements for my contents page as I have changed a couple of things

Fourth front cover draft

I made my dominate image bigger.
I changed my sub image tag line.
I changed my sub image to another artist.
I changed the size of the barcode.
I changed the puff shape.
I made the bar at the bottom smaller.
I changed my tag line so it was shorter.

Fourth contents page draft

I added a box around my sub image.

I added boxes around my image captions.

I changed the image for dominate image.

I made the text for my guest editor straighter.

I changed my sub image so that it fits in with the text.

Time management

2/12/16

My aim for this lesson is to a title and subtitle to my dps and add more little details to it.

My result of this lesson that I have added my title and my subtitle to my DPS and I have added a section to the bottom of the page which tells you the page number, date and title of my magazine. I also did my compare and contrast of my DPS and another DPS.

Compare and Contrast - DPS

My double page spread and a one that already exists are similar and different in many ways.

One similarity with these DPS's is that they both include a running head except I included the title of my magazine in with mine. This makes my DPS look more professional and it reminds people what their reading and what they are reading about.

One difference with my DPS and an existing one is that their title has two different fonts and mine only has one. This helps the title stand out off the page more, chaging this could be something that I consider when I creating another draft of my magazine. 

Another similarity of these two DPS's is that they both have a big image of the artist which takes up quite a lot of space this helps the article look more interesting as there isn't a lot of empty space it also helps people recognize who they are. 

Another difference with these two DPS's is that in my double page spread I have mostly used the colour white for the text where as this one had used pink to help certain things stand out from other things this helps attract the readers attention to certain sections of the page. Adding another colour to my text could help certain sections stand out like the quotes I have included.

Another difference with my DPS and the one that already exists is that I have included a section at the bottom where their is a line to stop writing and images reaching the bleed line where the other one hasn't also this look helps my DPS look more proffesional and it makes everything stop so everything is in order and even. 

Another difference in these two DPS's that I have included more pull quotes than the other one. This helps keeps the reader intrested in the article as they want to know why that person can't live their any more or how they became happy so people will continue to read on and it helps it stand out of you were just flicking through the magazine.   

Second draft - DPS

I have added a title.

I have added a sub title.

I changed the size of my text.

I added photography credit.

I added boxes around my image captions.

I added a section at the bottom with the date, title of my magazine and my page number.