ORIGINAL PHOTO;
I chose Alex Turner as my Contents page main image has he is a well know indie rock artist and my target audience would know who he is. Consequently he is also wearing iconic indie rock costume.
Step by Step Evidence of How I Created My Contents Page;
1. Firstly I opened my chosen image into Photoshop; I then chose the Quick Selection tool and went round of the boarder of the image.
2. I then clicked the 'move' tool and pressed delete on my key board; this has now removed the grey looking background and made it completely white.
3. I opened my image of Alex Turner on PicMonkey to help edit and add text onto my image. I used the sharpen tool to make Alex look me defined I also clarified the image to brighten it up.
4. I proceeded by adding the Mast Head 'Fuse.' I used the font Chunk Five I used the Inide Rock conventional colour of red. I made the mast head in a big font to ensure it stands out to the reader and it's evident of what the magazine is called.
5. I added the sub headings 'cover story' and ' feature stories' using Chunk Five (same as the mast head) font type and put it in red to fit with the colour scheme. I then added the cover story 'What's it like to be on the road? Our favourite indie rock artist reveals all.' I chose this strap line to fit with the contents page main image and also to fit with my genre and fit my audience I used the font Special Elite. I had to change the colour of some of the text to white which overlapped onto the image; I wanted it to still look pleasing to the reader.
6. I added my next magazine convention; page numbers. I added the page number at the bottom right hand corner like most conventional magazines, I put it in black to stand out and also added the mast head in the corner to match other indie rock magazines.
7. I then added the page number using Chunk Five again; this time I used the colour blue to stand out on the white background and show the reader where the story is in the magazine.
8. I then carried on adding my feature stories in the font Rokkit, I used a different font to the cover story to make sure my cover story was focal point. I fitted the text round the image to ensure it looked professional. I added 4 feature stories using the same elements each time to look appealing.
9. I wanted to fill the empty spaces but without adding substantial amount of text to the page. I chose to add some secondary images both of the Artists being indie rock artists and both involved in the feature stories of the magazine. The third image about 'the best tracks' was an image used on previous NME magazine I thought these elements would break my text up greatly.
I saved the images I wanted to add and then proceeded to open them on to word. I used the remove background tool on Word to deleted the background from the image and ensure it was completely blank. I did this for all three images then added them onto my Contents Page.
10. After adding the images I wasn't happy with the speech bubbles coming from the images 'mouths'. I then used the shape tools on PicMonkey and added my own speech bubble over the top to make them my own.
11. After adding the speech bubbles I added some text to fill them. I added the page numbers of their specific article to ensure the reader the images correspond with the articles. I used the same font as my page numbers (Chunk Five).
12. My final magazine convention I added was the issue number and date, this makes my contents page a conventional contents page. I added them into the left hand corner to fill the empty space and also to have them somewhere which doesn't interfere with the main text.
MY FINAL CONTENTS PAGE;
CONTENTS PAGE 2;
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