Development: First Drafts

I finally moved on to piecing together a first draft of my magazine, beginning by inputting my logo which I can use as a theme through the pages of the magazine and as the front cover logo, and had already created as an idea in my moodboard, and had recieved positive remarks. I also made an abbreviated version to use as a symbol of the magazine in the corner of its pages.

I created the draft of my front cover mainly in Photoshop, for its ability to manipulate objects on seperate layers, and also its drawing capabilities, which was really useful in creating aspects like the glow effect of the fonts and also drawing and editing shapes. I'm happy with the layout, but I might need to squash the lower elements down slightly to make the large main front cover photo more dominating. I also might need to get rid of the top information bar if I want the heads of the front cover models to obscure a little of the title.

My contents page was put together in Quark Express, a desktop publisher, though some of the elements were initially created in Photoshop due to Quark's inferior drawing and image manipulation abilities. Again, I am happy with the general layout and colour scheme of the page, but slightly dissatisfied with the abbreviated Radiowave logo, which is poorly clipped with Quark's image transparency settings. I might need more photographs other than the main image, as I have not yet decided how large I want the editor's note to be, so the amount of space I have for contents is sketchy so far.

Again, my double page spread is designed and put together in Quark Express. I'm hoping the layout will remain similar to this, though I might need more room for the information on each artist. I changed the colour scheme for this because the photos mainly follow a black, white, red and blue theme, and the normal orange and blue theme wouldn't have fitted. The article I plan to write for this bit will hopefully be about 3 finalist bands in a competition created by the magazine and information on some of the bands' members. I might also make the bottom news bar gradiented like the top.