Final contents page 1

This is my final contents page.  To create the background: I made two layers of plain white fill and added textures and filters to them to create a new theme that would suit my magazines style and look unique. I left the bottom layer white and used many filters and gradients over the one on top (darker purple, has blue blotches) and then cut a triangle out of the darker layer by using the magnetic lasso tool on Photoshop to reveal the white surface below. This process was completely experimental, as I was just trying to make my page different.  The colours on the page go together well as I only incorporated colours that could be taken from the photos on the page by using the eye dropper tool. 

I used Beattrip's tag line on the top of the page as it looked empty and I felt like repeating the tag line would add some consistence to the magazine. I chose to have the name of the magazine and contents down the left side as that's how it was on the cover page. I edited all the pictures before adding them to the page on Photoshop, just to either make the colours brighter and bolder or seem darker. For example, the main image is of Peter, I chose to have it bolder as he is wearing red and this contrasts with his blakc and white background.  

Chloe's picture on the top right of the page is slightly darker, as when looked at properly, this suits the mood of her photo more. I believe all the colours on the page work well together but are also not traditionally used together. For example, violet, purple, red, blue and white are not colours that are typically coordinated together - but I believe they do work well on this page. Again, just as on my cover page, I put a purple-to-white gradient layer over the final piece, this was to keep the matte look consistent to ensure that the pages would work well together. I reduced the opacity of this additional layer to 35% so that the page could still be seen, but I moved the images and title above this layer so that they would remain bold. 

To create the image of Diana on Photoshop, I used the magnetic lasso tool to crop her out of the original photo and then duplicated her layer onto an image of Peter as I wanted to have a graffiti background instead of the original plain white background. I then zoomed in and used the quick selection brush tool to delete excess pixels that made it obvious Diana was not really infront of the graphic wall. Following this step I then used the blur tool to blend the outline of Diana's layer with the background. I also altered the colours of the background using the hue and saturation adjusters and resized the background to make it look more realistic. 

The different sizes of text was influenced from my contents page research as I believe it is a simple way to reflect importance within the titles, I made the celebrity names bigger in size to connote their importance on the page (to appeal to my young, aspirer type audience). Page numbers are coloured red throughout my magazine, including my double page spread. 

I believe this page will appeal to my audience for a series of reasons. Firstly, my models are from both genders this makes it easier for me to show that my magazine is for both males and females, secondly they are all young which reflects that my product is aimed at young people. Furthermore, the use of trendy and branded clothes within their costumes will appeal to my aspirer and mainstream type target audience.

Although I made other pages, I believe this was my strongest as it has a good lay out and interesting themes (such as the big triangle - a shape heavily associated with hip hop thanks to many popular artists such as Jay Z wearing clothes and jewellery with the shape on it). In addition, the remaining area on the page has a cheetah print-like design on it thanks to the seperate layers of filter on it.