Double page spread process improved
- 2. Dan Watt 1. This is the masthead of my magazine double page spread; I used the same shade of red I had used on my magazine front cover as I decided I might as well contribute to the overall colour scheme. I also used the Arcade Interlaced font as I thought it was visually attractive and suited my magazine well. As this font was already on the Photoshop programme I just had to insert the text, alter the colour then just scale it to a size I was happy with and then place it at the top of the page. I felt that my masthead looked professional; however it could have been edited to look more interesting and appealing. 2. I took this photograph of Jack Rogers in the photography studio at Eccles College, and then I uploaded the file onto Photoshop so I could begin editing it. I decided that I would continue with the on-going theme of noir styled photographs, using the saturation brush tool I made the image entirely black and white. However I decided to re-insert the colour back into Jacks hat, much like I did on my magazine front cover. I did this as I felt made the photograph look more complex and not as bleak. The specific red shade I had been using for my fonts was originally taken from this image of Jack’s hat using the eyedropper tool. I felt that the contrast between colour and black/white creates a “juxtaposition”. 3. I decided that I would keep the background of my magazine black. Even though this isn’t as visually attractive compared to other more interesting magazine backgrounds I felt it was appropriate as It made all my text much easy to read as it stood out a lot more. If I had more time on this project I would have attempted to make a more high quality background. 4. This is the second photograph of Jack Rogers I used for my magazine double spread. I again used the same techniques and effects to create the noir sort of effect for my photograph. I then cropped off any unwanted parts of the image to place Jack in the centre of the photograph. I felt this was the better photo out of the two on the double page spread as it does look as though it has been taken for a serious photo shoot. I also like the fact that Jack uses the microphone as a prop In the photo, as I feel it is a nice touch. 5. As I didn’t have enough text from my interview with jack to fill up my magazine double page spread, I decided I would place in a quote so there wasn’t as much dead space. I used the same font and colour shade as the rest of my text however I increased the scale up to 48. This means the quote is one of the first things on my double page spread you see, hopefully after reading this some of the readers would be interested enough to read the whole article. This is the method professional magazines use to get new readers. 6. I created the dark grey shapes behind the majority of my text so people could easily distinguish the columns from each other. I chose the dark grey colour as its still matches the current colour scheme however it doesn’t different too much as to be really noticeable. I also thought that the grey boxes were a nice touch not making my double page spread as boring. Overall I am happy with my double page spread I believe I completed the task to a good grade standard, however I feel that given more time I could have completed it to a better ability. I am happy with the image construction, the texture is smooth throughout my double page spread, and the tone of my text is vibrant to gain people’s attention and making it visually attractive. Jack is a symbol for the music the magazine is based around as he represents the genre of music being “DJ Rogers”.