Final Products – Double Page Spread

This is my double page spread. The most obvious feature of this spread is the image on the right hand side. It is the only image in my products to be shown in colour, this is because I decided for this page that grey would be the background colour. My reason for this is to add some contrast to the rest of the products. Again, black, red and white fonts have been used throughout. With the red being used as the introduction to the article.

With the contrasting background colour, I had to find some way in order to link this page with the contents and the cover. I felt it would not be possible to put the magazine’s logo on this page, so I went with the next best thing and did torn banners and splats across the page. Not only do these help with consistency, they also tie the two pages together, spanning across them both. I feel this makes both pages come together as one, rather than sitting on two separate pages. The image on the right hand side also helps with this, as it goes over slightly more than half of the page. This means that some of the picture is on the left page and therefore links the two together.

Final Products - Contents

My final contents page continues the theme from the first page, with blacks, greys, whites and reds being used over the entirety of the page. I have attempted to, with the colour scheme, have black and white used for text that the reader should read. With red used for the more important pieces, in this example the page numbers.

The pictures on this page are again in black and white. I did this as I don’t like coloured pictures onto black and white. When I queried my peers on this idea, they were the same.

The logo again appears at the top of the page near the title for this page, which is also using the same ‘Gargoyles’ font as the front cover. This helps with consistency as it ties in the contents page with the front cover.

Again, I improved the flow of the page by adding ‘Splats’ and in order to make sure that the boxes on the left did not interfere too much or make the page look too square, I made the pictures overlap the top side of the box by their heads.

Final Products - Cover

This is my final front cover. The distinctive black, white, grey and black scheme is carried through the entire magazine. My idea for this is that as magazines try to be colourful in order to grab people’s attention, they all look the same. One in black and white will stand out more than one trying to be more over-bright than every other magazine.

The idea for my magazine is that it will follow the visual hierarchy (Starting at top left, moving to top right, cutting diagonally from top right to bottom left and finally moving along to bottom right). This is evident as I decided to put the banner on a slant with the image also moving across this. The final part that I added because of visual hierarchy is the splash with a sticker effect near bottom right. This will be the last piece of the cover the reader will see and therefore contains the most information of the cover.

The use of ‘Splats’ was suggested by my peers who complained that the magazine looked too rigid without them. The added splats, I feel, force the magazine to flow from one feature to another.