House Styles

Had another lesson today and have been working on my House Styles. As I am confident that I have completed my proposal and masthead design, I have been working on the layouts of my front cover, contents page and DPS for my magazine.

 As you can see, I have been working on my design for my front cover in this lesson. I worked on the features and articles that I wanted to include, and added these on the front cover. I also made the splash bigger so that it is easier to read, and I included how much the magazine will be and the date of the issue. I have also changed the font to the font that I will use in the magazine, Rockwell. This font will correspond with the mini-headlines that I designed for the contents page.
I have also added a bit more information about the main image. I have included that it will be set on location, among Creation, to go with the Christian theme of the magazine.

I have done a lot of work on my contents page this lesson. Before, the second 'photo for a regular' was a 'photo for a review'. However, I felt that this would be difficult to obtain as the photography has to be primary and the reviews are of real albums by real artists, so this photo would be a little unrealistic. Therefore, I changed it to a photo that would be easier to take.
Also, as I have worked out the articles that will be included in my magazine, I have written these in; the regulars and the features, and some of the reviews. They will not necessarily be in this order when I make the magazine parts, but they are there in the places where they are supposed to be.

I also did a lot of work on my DPS layout. Here, we can see where the photo will be and where the text will be. I took inspiration for the layout of the DPS from NME, as this also had the picture on one side with a little profile of the artist, and the journalism on the other. However, the placing of the pull-quote was inspired by Q.