Thursday, 27 February 2014

Progression of double page spread.

I thought the circle didn't look very good and also thought I'd change the colour of the word 'movement' as there was slightly too much pink on the DPS, so thought I'd change it.
Cutting the bottom and top off the circle made it look a lot better, as it was more fitting with the genre of magazine, and changing the word 'movement' from pink to green made the DPS more consistent with it's colouring, and this made it so that there wasn't too much pink on the page.
I felt like the quote in the top left hand side of the left page wasn't easily noticeable, so I copied the triangle behind the text on the right hand side of the DPS and placed it behind the quote, so the text stood out more. I did this as I wanted people to read the quote so they would be intrigued to read the interview and want to know what is going on.

This didn't fit in with the contents page and the front cover due to the background being a plain white colour. This made the whole product look unprofessional and so I thought to change it to make it look right. I thought that a pink colour would look a lot nicer because it's a lot more girly, and the colours on this page are a bit to 'in your face'.

I changed the background to a light pink, the same as the contents page. I did this because I wanted the front cover, contents page and double page spread to flow, and with the DPS having a white background it didn't; it looked out of place. I chose for the colour to be similar to the contents page and not the front cover because I think the front cover should be a lot brighter and have a lot, lot more on it than the contents page and DPS. Also, the front cover is the first thing the consumer will see, so this has to have much more of an impact than the contents page and DPS does. I think this looks a lot better because it seems a lot calmer and less 'in your face'. Although bright colours on a plain background can be a positive thing, as it attracts the reader's eyes, it can also have a negative impact on the reader. This is because lots of colour on each page can be a bit too much, and the reader may get sick of seeing it, therefore the magazine would lose out on profit because the reader would maybe not buy the product again because of this.



The text for my images wasn't very easy to read and also didn't have a font that could easily be read. I changed the font and added a coloured background to make it stand out and to make it clear.



The images at the top of the right hand page looked a bit dull and boring. I changed these to look like Polaroid prints as this is something current. I am also possibly going to edit the background of the images because they are all grey but they are also slightly different shades.

I rotated these images to fit in with the pop genre, as they look like Polaroid instant prints. This looks a lot better.



I switched these questions around because they didn't seem like they followed on. Having a question on personal life before ending on a question about her album made more sense.



As there was a bobble on the artists wrist, I used the 'Content Aware' fill tool to erase it, so that it disappeared. I used this instead of the erase tool because the erase tool would have erased her wrist also.

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