I used word to construct my magazine. I chose word becuase it has a lot of useful resources and i found it very easy to use. It had a lot of editing techniques also shapes and text boxes i was able to use for my magazine.
Front Cover
On my front cover layout i had a few ideas from successful magazines (Q) to base the layout. For my Masthead i had used a site called 101fonts.com. It was very useful for me. Because the magazine was called 'the lyric' i decided to use the basis of that to determine to design of my masthead. I had decided to make my title look like it was written as a lyric 'handwritten'. It made it look unique and fitted to style of the magazine. To add the masthead on to the front cover i had to print screen the page and crop the image in paint. I then saved that image and added it onto my front cover.
I included four pictures to my front cover. The main dominant picture and 3 separate photos to go as my article basis. I used the three other photos on the side on my front cover to emphasize and show the 'FREE POSTERS' pug in the corner. These were made to look like the three free posters inside the magazine. Word made me use text boxes to put the pictures in, i found this quiet challenging due to the fact i had a lot of text boxes on the page already and also in was hard to fit the picture into the box the right size and shape.
For the colour of the front cover i had used fill to do the gray background. I didn't use a colour in my masthead becuase i wanted it to look original and keep to my idea of looking it like a lyric its self. i was challenging the codes and conventions of other magazines where they usually use a colour font on their magazine masthead.
For the text and the text boxes i used the fill editing technique on word and used a main colour which was gold and stuck through with that colour all through the magazine. I also used tilt on some of my writing on the front cover where your able to tilt the writing and put it on the side of the page.
I found word very useful for my magazine front cover and used some useful editing techniques and styles to make my magazine front cover to look authentic and original.
Contents
For my contents have had drafted out my ideas, i had planned to make it like my front cover, same colour styles and patterns. I used the word editor to edit my photos to make them look as they are. Faded out and made to fit the page. I also used a boarder theme, where you can make the boarder of the photo match the same as the writing, as in colour and style. I had used ideas from Q magazine for my contents page becuase i found it challenging to come up with the style and colour theme. When i saw most magazines keep to the same colour scheme and style i decided to do the same with mine. I used my Masthead in the contents becuase i also noticed in Q that they use their Masthead on the front page and also the contents as well. So by keeping to the codes and conventions i decided to do this and keep to the look with my front cover.
DPS
I had many ideas for my double page spread and conducted a few drafts. I wanted to make my double page spread different to my front cover and contents. Again i used word like i did for my front cover and contents but i also used paint.net. Paint.net helped me edit my main image and do a lot of pretty cool stuff with it. It let me use effects and different styles to my main picture. As you can by the picture on my DPS, i pix-elated the image and faded it out, to give it a unique look. Also it fitted well with my background, the background i deigned my self on paint.net again. This took me quite a while due to the fact i wanted the background to fit in well with my picture. It did. The font i used for the writing i found on a site called 101fonts.com. This site had many fonts i could use, the site was the same on i had used for my Masthead. Again i tried to use a unique look and try and keep it with the style of my Masthead. Hand written style. After a long time of looking i found one and print screen the writing and transferred it onto paint. From there i cropped the writing and put it on my DPS. I did the same with more writing because i thought it look very good with my design and style of the DPS. The text followed. I used 11 size font on word and kept the font style the same as my front page and contents. For the right side of the page i kept to a white background because it looked and went well with the writing and the left side of my BPS page.
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