Week 29: Update of Creating my Magazine Pages

The progress of creating my Student Magazine, Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread, I am meeting my deadlines on my production schedule and have completed all of the research which I need to carry out to be able to create my own magazine pages for this assignment. The research which I have carried out so far is Primary Research, of creating a questionnaire for my target audience to complete in relation to what they believe makes a good student magazine, research into existing student magazines and similar products, research into graphic trends for 2011. I have also completed a report on graphic file formats for Photoshop and Illustrator and Research into the Typography and Magazine Conventions with different effects, created for typography within Adobe Illustrator. I have completed contents page and front cover analysis' on existing magazines, research into existing double page spreads, the target audience of my student magazine, budget and health and safety considerations. By completing the research stage I was able to complete my initial ideas and sketches with the layout of my pages and this included the name of my magazine, the colour scheme, the features which I will include within my magazine and the font I would use for my magazine.
I then was able to consider the images which I wanted to use within my magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread, as I had sketched my pages I was able to see how many and what type of images I would need for my magazine pages, I considered the 4 different pages for my magazine and I have generated my own images for my magazine, therefore they are all original images. The images which I have taken includes an image for my front cover, student related images for my double page spread on Student Life, Different Images for the features on my Contents Page including images for Careers Advice, The Main Article Image, Travel and Film and Music Reviews, some of the images I have taken are shown below. I have started to create my final front cover and contents page and worked from my sketches for the designs, I am hoping to complete these two pages and then work on my article for my double page spread as I now have all the images I need to created my magazine pages.

Creating My Magazine Front Cover

Since Friday I have started to create my final student magazine front cover, I have worked from my sketches to create my magazine front cover I have used the images which are shown above within my pages and on the front cover I have used the main image of the two students laughing as I believed this showed student life clearly, and showed how good student life is. Below shows the initial sketch which I have worked from and I have continued with the colour scheme of red, the image below my sketch shows the first stages of my final front cover, which is in the same layout as my sketch, I am still working on the front cover and are hoping to continue with the simple but effective layout for the student magazine.



Initial Sketch of Student Magazine



My Own Student Magazine Design