Unit 3 progression and revised front cover

Production progression

Week 1:

So far i have been working on my products double page spread, i have added all of the text that will be appearing within the articles and the break-out boxes and have changed some of the text to the desired font, size and colour.
i used the colour scheme of red blue and yellow within my double page spread because they are all very bright, unisex colours the brightness of the colours appeals to a younger audience while the fact that there is a mix of sexual orientated colouring maintains my full audience of both male and female.

I still need to add some more features to the DPS such as speech bubbles for specific quotes and i still have to create my title on photoshop and insert it into the DPS, i must also conduct my photo-shoot on friday 14th march to get images onto my DPS.

Week 2:

I continued to work on my double page spread for 2 hours in week 2, within this time i managed to add a quote with its own break-out box to the article. i added a article title and also added an article introduction, Lastly i added some extra background images of simple speech bubbles to remove some of the dull space in the background of the article, this is to make it look less empty to the audience and also because of the young target audience the visual stimulation keeps attention onto the magazine.

My DPS will be finished after i add image which i create during my photo shoot later today, these images may need some photoshop edits but will be the finishing touch to my double page spread i must now work on my front cover next week and hopefully come close to finishing it.

Week 3:

I started work on my magazine front cover, conducted my photo-shoot and began to edit and retrieve the images from it. While working on my magazine front cover i managed to complete a verity of tasks which i wanted in my front cover, some of these tasks were: Add masthead, add sell lines, add background imagery, add a special offer sticker and finish the colour scheme for the front cover.

Within the last week of production i will be finishing off editing some of my photographs for my DPS, and adding the final touches to my magazine's front cover, these will involve some changes to the size of the font, introduce a new font, more suitable spacing and the introduction of more sell lanes

Extra edits

After receiving some advice, i decided to continue to make edits on my work, even after my evaluation to improve it further, this is the final product after my final edits:

I decided to make a couple of changes to both my front cover and my DPS for multiple reasons, the main one being that i thought it could use some re organising and some of the improvements suggested were easy to conduct.

i decided to scrap having 2 separate pictures on the second page and instead have a larger more eye-catching one to bring in the audience, i also wanted to re arrange some of the text locations as it was very clumped together before making it seem unappealing to a low socioeconomic and age audience, so now i have made it a lot more spacious on the second page, making the text amount seem lower and more appealing for the TA

I felt with my front cover that some of the fonts i used for the sub sell lines actually demeaned the mast head and main sell line, to fix this i reduced the amount of sell lines on the page and gave them a duller font, to make the main sell line stand out more.

i also added a few features to make sure it was understood that the magazine was a tech related one, as this was some advice given to me which i mention in my evaluation. i also made the phone visible on the front covers image so that it also connotes the tech part of the magazine.

i now feel my product has been organised a lot more clearly and more appropriately for my target audience, and specifically feel that the improvements to my front cover make it look a lot more appealing and eye catching.