AS Foundation Portfolio 2: January 2015

When creating my Playlist Contents Page the first step I took was creating the title. I have stayed with the same style as I created my front cover masthead in to create this title so that there is continuity and a link between two pages. I have also made sure that the magazine logo is in the same place as it is on the front cover so that it becomes a house style for this magazine.

When making this I had to consider the colour scheme and as I was working towards creating a colour scheme and house style, I stuck to the same colour scheme I had chosen for my front cover. Black, pink and yellow.

The contents title is yellow because it is the brightest colour within this colour scheme and so will stand out against the pink, whereas if it was a yellow background colour and a pink title then the page may seem too bright and subsequently off-putting.

I then started to place boxes so that I could plan my layout. The darker pink boxes were used to highlight where photos would be placed so that I could begin to add other things onto the page without taking up too much space and allowing less room for my images.

The dotted line is used to highlight the area that the features will be shown, for example my stories along with the page numbers that are relevant to that specific story.

I also added a subscription area where I will eventually add in prices, a description and some other images on my Google Mock Ups that I made during the Research & Planning period of creating this magazine - this is so that they look like other editions of this magazine and will therefore look a lot more professional. Another addition to my contents page was the page number, the social media icons and the magazines website. This is because it is very conventional to have these features so that the reader can navigate there way to this page but also find the magazine and talk about the magazine over social media sites.

After creating the things stated above, I added text to the subscription area of this page and the Google Mock Up images I had mentioned previously. This was added so that the reader knows what they would be paying monthly to get exactly what is written in the description that has also been added.

The Google Mock Ups that have been used work well with this magazine as they both have the same masthead and the same logo - which suggests a house style for the second time in this magazine.

I also added a small box to highlight where another image would be going. This image would be supporting text for the Editor's Letter.

I then wrote and added the Editor's Letter and the image to go with it. The letter is something that I found through research to be quite conventional in all genres of music magazines and so I planned to use one of these from the beginning so that it reinforce this convention.

The letter is basically just something I have wrote the briefly tells the reader what the whole magazine includes, and where they got their information from.

I then added images into the boxes I had previously provided. Each of these images are original and are placed as to go along with page numbers and a brief description or quote so that they display the conventions of the main stories within a magazine - which is to have the story along with an image rather than just text in a list.

After placing the images into the contents page, I added the text needed for a contents page to fulfil its purpose.

The text also coordinates with the colour scheme with the exception of "tweet us" as this particular part of the text refers to a social media site and so I thought it would be a good idea to use the colour from that site in order to spark some comfortability within the page as the target audience specifically will understand this reference and will recognise it instantly.

The page numbers have also been included, with the ones alongside the images highlighted by a yellow square so that they stand out to the audience more and so they will not have to put a lot of effort into finding the page number for the story they are looking for.

After the text had been added I noticed that there was certain areas on the page that blended into the background they were placed on. This is why I decided to add some effects - mainly drop shadows. This is so that they stood out from the background and also looked a lot more professional.

I also added a gradient effect onto the background colour so that it wasn't so bold and in the audiences face. I think that this made it look a lot better as it is a lot easier to look at and also the colour of the 'Contents' title isn't as bright and striking but sits nicely at the top of the page.

The last effect I added was on the Contents Title as I decided, last minute, to add a stroke effect to make it look more bold on the page. This is because all of the other bits of text on the page had an effect such as the drop shadow added to it and so took attention away from the title of the page, which I think is an extremely important and very conventional feature.

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