Today in my media lesson I was able to complete all the pages required for my main task. This included my Contents page, Double Page Spread, and Front page. Over all I am very pleased with the appearance of them all and feel that they are of a publishing standard. They have Continuity throughout the pages and all follow the conventions of a magazine. I managed to incorporate the conventions yet be different by having a Masthead, Headlines,having a main background image, an having an article and made it different my giving it a different look and funky yet simple.
I choose to have two different colour fonts which I saw in many articles of interviews on various magazines. This led me to realizing that my magazine would not be complete without it and needed this feature to be of a publishing standard.
Also I today whilst doing my pages I realised that one of the images that I used was a graphic which would not be allowed to be in my work as it was not an original image. This then caused me an major problem as I made all my mock ups in great detail so that all I would have to do is change the images and then make any changes that I felt necessary to cause it to still look presentable. So having to change the graphic could change the whole entire look of the page but it had to be done. I managed to resolve this problem be using some more of my original images of the model that I used and then using a brush to add the music affect that I felt the graphic added. Using the brush which I had to download off of the internet to get my music note that I needed to still keep the Urban Music theme I asked and researched to ensure that it would be allowed and not be breaking to rules like as if I used the graphic.
As well as today I went over my contents page to ensure that I had the continuity of my article having the same page number as shown on the contents page as this is also essential as all the pages are meant to be from the same issue of the magazine.
On reflecting over all of my work that I have done today I think that all of it is of a good enough standard to be published, seen on the shop stands, in addition to something which I could see myself buying which is essentially the most basic enough standard. Although the only criticism which I could give my work would be that the order that I completed the pages is shown in the look or standard of the page. As the first one I was unsure of what exactly I wanted it to look like and this could be reflected in the page however the others that proceeded look 100% better, but as I went back over the pages I managed to improve it without changing it too much.
