What expect on a double page spread!

Topics -

• Interviews
• Upcoming events
• Reunions
• Q&A's
• Reviews
• Latest News

Style -

• House style, Suited to that magazine
• Style co-ordinates to the artist
• Colour Schemes 
• Typical codes and conventions eg, Large image on the left/Quote

Layout -

• Design fitted to that magazine's house style
• Easy to read
• Pictures that relate
• Different fonts and sizes
• Large main image covering one side of the double page spread
• Quotes and headlines

Content page analysis

Content page analysis

The content page i am analyzing is from mixmag  it spreads across both pages, its a double spread contents. The contents page following a black and white coloured theme with the text all white and the background being black, this is due to a black background making white writing stand out, it also makes it look professional. The contents page follows a conventional style that other magazines do, it has the pages listed to the sides with images in the middle promoting some of the articles inside. Everything in the page is spread out nicely following mixmag's house style of a relaxed and simple layout and colours. 

Although their are other images that welcome to reader to carry on reading the magazine the main image is the most attractive and eye catching, it is of two young attractive girls having fun, this is for young people to interact with and relate to since they want to be doing the same, this will want the younger audience to check were this is is and how they can be doing the same. Mixmag use a double-page spread for their contents, this is their own house style since not many other big magazine's use this feature. This contents page keeps a consistent balance of pictures and text.


I am now comparing this to a college magazine -  



This college magazine draws your attention instantly to the 'Contents' title since it has a white background with black text, this is quite unprofessional as it's not creative and could use better colors. The white text on the black background makes it really easy to read but hurts the eyes after a while of reading which is a bad trait and not good for the reader,the pictures used are pictures of the college and two people sitting around, the pictures are simple but not effective they do not give you the feel that you want to be there. They have used 4 pictures in total which takes up nearly three quarters of the contents page. I find this annoying as the contents page is for information not for the college to be shown off. Furthermore, the text on the contents page looks like bullet points and a list which is not what i would like my magazine to look like, This contents page lacks allot of creativity and 
effort to look good. I will not take insperation from this but i now know how to make my contents page appeal to others.

College Contents magazine - Draft

This is how i would lay it out -

College Magazine

This is my finished college magazine

Images for my college magazine

These are the images i took for a potential college magazine cover.

This image is a low angle shot of a student hard at work, This would be very suitable for my magazine, i have decided to use this as my cover since it represents what the magazine will be showing which is a hard working college. The lighting in this picture is also great.
















This image is of a student contemplating the outside, it is a medium shot showing his uniform and the outside view, i dont think this picture is linked enough with the ideology of my magazine to be used.

Using photoshop

We then replaced our own background with 
another to make sure we understood fully
what we had done and doing. -













Our next job was to remove spots from a
supermodels forehead, We done this by using 
the healing tool, we took skin from a healthy 
place and used to on her spot to clear it 
up, This is the before and after -







Finally we changed celebrity to black
and white while her lips remained red. To do
this we used the box tool to highlight the lips
and put them onto a new layer, then changed the 
original image to black and white and finally 
putting the red lips on top of the original picture
via layers - 

Using photoshop

This lesson we were showed how to remove and replace a background on photoshop, we manipulated the photos. Firstly we opened photoshop -













We went to file and place after making a new canvas, after placing the image we resized it and pressed enter and then rasterized the image -








We now had to remove to background from the 
image, to do this we used the magic wand tool 
clicked the background and deleted and then placed a background onto the image of our chosen photo and replaced it with the background we had deleted -