These pages below are the finalized versions of the front, contents and double page spread of my music magazine. Each of them consisted of various drafts and took a slow development process so that I used an designed the pages appropriately in relation to the genre of electronic music (theme of the magazine) and the styles that a younger audience, whom of which is my target market will find attractive and eye catching. In order to reach this point in their development I used various technologies and software including a Canon DSLR camera, Serif Photo Plus and Serif Page Plus so I could create the pages and manipulate the photos I had taken accordingly. Each of these pages development included various drafts in order to achieve the outcome that I felt was best appropriate and effective.
You may notice from comparing this to my previous draft of the front cover that I have changed the image that goes on the front cover. The feedback given to me on my drafts suggested that there was not enough mixture of shot types on all of my pages of the magazine. Therefore, I went back to the file that had all of my photos from the photo shoot I carried out and selected a this close up shot of my 'artist'. The use of the character looking straight into the camera has more effect than the artist looking off to the side (trying to show a stylish appearance). In relation to the genre of electronic music, many other magazines use a shot type like this for the front cover with an artist looking directly at the reader. I saw this as a more appealing technique for the front cover and therefore proceeded with the idea reach this outcome. Similarly, this final draft included some additional changes including the positioning of the text addressing content inside has now been placed at the top above the title rather than in the bottom middle, where it looked out of place. Similarly, I have shrunken the size of the secondary lead sub-heading (Diplo) because from reviewing feedback and logical sense this may have been mislead as the main lead due to the size of the text font.
Using my given feedback from peers and my ideas to further develop this page I noticed that the green text in previous pages was almost impossible to see due to the stark contrast of the lime green against the background. In order to solve this problem, but still maintain my colour scheme I placed an aqua blue shape behind these sub-headings listing the content, it now looks more stylish and much clearer to read. Furthermore, the text at the bottom listing content on "remixes and musician lifestyles" appeared to be in a very small text font, therefore in order to fill the space better and maintain consistency with my designs I stretched the text across the page and re-aligned the text in order to keep the aesthetic. Comparing this design to my previous drafts I believe that the layout and colour schemes are less harsh but still keeping within the themes that electronic music follows.
Similar to the ideas I have stated above, feedback from peers suggested that there was too many colours on this page and it was not following the colour schemes properly that I had used on the front cover. Firstly, in this final draft I have reverted back to the colour used on the title of 'J.A Snake' to the same used on the front cover so a reader recognizes the link clearly. It also maintains consistency within my choice of colours and design and therefore shows it displays a more professional aesthetic. You may notice that I have inserted social media links icons at the bottom. Like many mainstream magazines, connecting to an audience through social media is one of the most effective modern ways to advertise an artists/magazine. Therefore I have used these icons to suggest to a reader to follow my magazine on social media sites in order to keep up to date and "fashionable", this of which may be an important factor to a young audience.
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