My Final Contents

This my final contents, with a few small changes, but I'm fairly pleased with the result.

I didn't edit my images as much as I edited that on the cover, but I have used Photoshop to increase the contrast and brightness of both. For the contents, I felt I could use more of an effect than on the cover, so I went for that really bright white light effect, which I'm hoping will connote a celebrity element and connect to thoughts of "limelight" and paparazzi, as I feel these are concepts heavily associated with music artists, especially that of mainstream pop. I also feel the effect makes the images look quite luminous, which my readers may decode as a comfortable warmth and familiarity. Similar to what I did on the cover, I added a drop shadow and outer glow, however I think it's works better on P!nk's image than Will Young's.

Really my layout is exactly as it was in the draft, apart from the amount of features in a column, but that's just generally because I made them smaller to have more and to make sure they were fairly spaced apart, as my draft was very cluttered.

I think I stuck to what I said for the font also, using Kravitz Extra Thermal for the title, and the original Kravitz for everything else as it wasn't too thin on this final version in the sizes I used.

Again this is my final contents, but the first draft of my contents is this, which isn't too different too my final really. The feedback from Ms Furness included positives of excellent use of images and a fantastic layout, and the suggested changes were;

• Making sure my text on the two pages doesn't cross the centre line


• Adding some green in from the cover


• Changing the way P!nk looks a little out of proportion

To commit to these, I altered my layout slightly and made it tighter and neater to make a centre line, which I'd noticed I'd probably need to do after I finished making this. Although I agreed that P!nk was slightly out of proportion, I couldn't figure out why, because it was an enlarged image, but I'd clicked on the keep the proportions tool as I transformed it on Photoshop. I noticed though, that it only seemed out of proportion on school screens, not on my own at home, but I think the culprit may be the outer glow I added, as it makes it look like the image spreads over a bigger area. However it didn't have this effect on my Will Young image...strange? I think I've now sorted this now, after some twitches on Photoshop, and hopefully it looks better.

Also as I was gaining improvements for my double page spread, I noticed my page numbers weren't a mirror image on here also so I came back to change it quite simply by swapping the BOLT.COM and 9 around to make it more realistic.

When incorporating green into the contents, I tried it in a couple of places and it really looked out of place on the title. Although the places it's used are very minor, it acts as a mini accent colour, and although I'm still not sure of it, I've decided to leave it like that on recommendation. Therefore the final result is that at the top of this post.