Project Monitoring 5

This week I finished my front cover for my magazine, this was meant to be done in the final week of the production, but I had time in my  schedule to do it, at first I had the title of the magazine, the main image of 'Capture' and it's heading, I worked with the brightness of the image before I put it into the cover, because the faces looked a little dark and I needed them brighter. I was not sure as to what would go into the front cover, but then I decided to put in the other articles in. I also added an imaginary competition to fill up the cover, also because the generic music magazine has competitions, for the cover I have stuck to a three colour pallet of red, black and white. Once I had finished the front cover, I started work on the other DPS'

I thought I should get the 'Capture' spread out of the way because it is a triple page spread and it would take up the most time, the first thing I did was start on the first page of the three

The first page of the triple page spread shows the band in a relaxed stance, I chose this image because it looks the most natural and still retains a professional feel. Sticking with the style of the front cover, I created the title for the page, for the title, I looked through the interview that I did with the band and chose a quote from the vocalist about the band, because he used the word 'fruity' I thought I could incorporate this into the image, I went onto Google and got the texture of an orange and layered the text over the top, selected the letters, but copied the fruit layer below, leaving the text with the fruit's texture. From there I changed the Hue of the image to a red so it would stick to my three colour pallet and put it into the page. I entered a sub-heading so the readers have an idea what the article is about. I decided to use a quote for the title because it gives the reader an insight to the article before they've even turned the page.  I then moved on to the double page spread of the article. 

I created the background for the article in PhotoShop and then layered it into inDesign, when making the double page I had trouble cutting out the background to put the band on a new one, I then decided to select a section of the background the band are already in, and drag it onto the  second page, this makes it look like the image has a large background, the line in which the image splits to the stretched image is visible but i can get rid of that with the use of the 'smudge' tool. Along with the triple page spread and the front cover, I started the second double page spread. 

This is the double page for my second DPS 'Phil Strummer's Rockstar Rules', I followed the same style as the Capture layour with the image on one page and it's background dragged onto the other page, with this one, I made the model's shadow leak onto the other page, this makes the page look less stretched and obvious.