Contents Page Improvement

On the contents page, I decided to make the word 'Abbie' on the caption bigger than the standard text for captions on that page. This was to subtly point out that this article is the main article of the magazine, as it was on the front cover and therefore has somewhat more importance than the other featured articles.

Front Cover Minor Improvement

From looking at my genre of magazine and examples of it, it became clear that many used dots/small circles between important information in lists rather than a comma in order to achieve a more stylised effect, so I have employed this technique in the 'Plus' section of my front cover in order to appear very conventional.

Front Cover Symmetry Update

When consulting my focus group, it was pointed out to me that the front cover was perfectly symmetrical which is not a convention of music magazines- they tend to focus most of their info on one side, so I have moved the four featured articles across to the right and alternated the colour of the text between white and blue in order to make it visibly clear which article is which.

Contents Improvement

In order to make it very clear which article was the main one from the magazine (aka the one seen on the front cover), I decided to create a 'Featured' box in order to achieve this prominence. To make it, I created a small frame and coloured it with my magazine's blue colour scheme before adding small white text over the top. I have two fonts primarily used through the magazine, and I used the 'Lemon/Milk' font for the featured box to stand out to the 'Bebas Neue' font used predominantly on the contents page.

Weekly Review (Timekeeping)

This week I have made some large structural changes to both my contents and double-page spread, as well as adding key conventions such as Social Media logos, as well as some minor photo-shopping for small thumbnail photos to be added to the front cover.


This week coming up (9-16 April 2016) I intend to now focus on smaller details and minor changes and adjustments in anticipation of the final cut deadline in two weeks time.

Contents Change

Following feedback from Tommy in my focus group, I have changed the three photos on my contents page into four in order to include the cover artist, Abbie.

Front Cover Improvement

I have decided to use a more conventional photo of a male model in a studio for one of the small photos at the bottom of the page. However, the photo has the studio in the background, so I used the black and white brush tool and the magnetic lasso to remove the background so I can place him on a white background to appear more professional.