Week 30: Contents Page and Double Page Spread Progress

Today I have continued to complete my double page spread, I have also been given feedback from both the client and the target audience of students about my double page spread, I have nearly completed my double page spread today and I have had feedback from a student about her view on my double page spread. The changes which I have made today to my article is that I have changed the colour of the article writing to black, as from a students feedback they said that there was too much red within the article, which I did believe was true and the black text breaks the article up and I think this does work better. I also received feedback from the client and he said he liked the layout which I had with the images in the centre of the double page, I was also shown how to make the quality of my photos better, by using the Curves in Photoshop tool to create a well balanced colour image, the screenshot below shows the curve which is commonly used when using this tool to edit and enhance an image within Photoshop.




Curves Tool in Photoshop

 

This image below shows my nearly completed double page spread, I have changed the layout and included the main article on student life on the first page, with the second page I have added the interview to the left and an additional box at the bottom of the page with 5 Steps to Applying for University. I think the layout of my double page spread is now clear and eye catching and included an article and contents which will appeal to both students and parents and potential advertisers, I think I have now completed my double page spread and I will ask my primary target audience of students tomorrow to complete a questionnaire for feedback on how I could potentially improve my magazine pages if I were to repeat this project.

Double Page Spread

 I have now completed my Contents Page for my student magazine, I have changed the title within the contents page, I have decided to place the title down the left hand side of the page and I changed the opacity of the font to make it faded, I thought having the title at the side of the page is because I thought this is more eye catching. I have also added an introduction message into the magazine which tells the reader what it within the issue and I have also added the website at the bottom of the page, and I have done the same on my double page spread in the corners of the pages.

Tomorrow I will ask my target audience to fill out a questionnaire on my 3 different magazine pages and I can therefore see their feedback and see whether the pages do appeal to them as the target audience.



Contents Page