Front Cover, Contents Page and DPS

I had a lesson today, so was working on all the parts of my magazine.

Front Cover

As one of the issues that my teacher had with my front cover was my image, I took another photograph where my model was smiling. Another problem was the background at the far right had too much going on; it had stairs and other things in it that made the photograph look bad.

Therefore, I took a photo that I had originally dismissed because it had too much tree above the model's head, and cropped it so that this was no longer an issue. I also uploaded it to Photoshop and used the Clone Tool to edit out the background and make it the same colour as the rest of the white light.

I then duplicated all of the coverline layers from one Photoshop document to another, so that I could see how this image would look with the coverlines without having to make the coverlines again.

However, this image is still not suitable, therefore I will have to take another front cover image to replace the one that I have been using.

Contents Page

On my contents page, I added gaps between the review descriptions at text size 5, as this is how the other descriptions have gaps between them. Therefore there is continuity throughout the contents page. This meant that I had to change the wording of some of the descriptions, as the gaps meant that less text could fit in the box that I had outlined for the descriptions to fit in. I also got rid of the ellipses at the end of these descriptions, as they made it look childish and therefore would not appeal to my target audience.

The final thing that I did on my contents page was change the page number on my photo for the Hymns vs. CCM article, as this was now on a different page after I made changes to my flat plan.

DPS

I changed the size of the text on my DPS, as it was smaller than the text on my contents page which took away from the continuity of the piece.

I also changed the size of the gap between the questions to text size 5, as I did on the contents page, so that there was still room for more text even though the text size was bigger.

The final thing that I did on my DPS was to edit the journalism and cut a few of the unnecessary sentences out so that the bigger text fitted better, as if these sentences had been kept in, the journalism would not have fitted in the space allotted.