Front Cover Design

For my front cover I copied the magazine XXL, I asked my too friends Anthony and Ali to take on the roles of being Soulja Boy and 50 Cent as you can see above. I used my camera to capure this image and I edited the picture on my laptop to give it a more profesional affect. I aslo drew a Superman symbol on Anthony similaur to where Soulja Boy has one just to give it that little umph, i also used some gold chains and a red flat cap to capture the essence of hip-hop, the image above is not the one i decided to use in the end, but below is the images i took, some edited and some not.

This link shows you my photos for my Front Cover design, http://www.flickr.com/photos/61217461@N07/sets/72157626388361662/
I edited and took all my own images at home.

 As you can see in some images there is a lamp on the right, I used Photoshop to get remove the lamp in the background, making it more proffesional, I did this by using a stamp tool.

I also made sure the background was white by moving up the brightness and by making sure that the wall they were standing in front of was also white. I uploaded my chosen image into Photoshop and selected the pen tool so I could save the image of them into a separate layer which I could use in Indesign. Once I had saved the layer and opened it into Indesign I used the rectangle frame tool and placed the layer within it and positioned it so that there would be enough room for my masthead and headlines.

For my masthead I had to do something small and catchy like XXL, so instead I used the same look but changed the masthead to SWAG, which is a popular word used in America, it means the way you dress and having respect from people which fits perfectly with the genre i choose, hip-hop. I used the font true stories and placed it over a box that I created with the rectangle frame tool which I filled in red similar to XXL.

In the right hand corner of my Front Cover there is a barcode, to get the barcode I croped it off of another magazine and used the rectangle frame tool in Indesign and placed it within the box, I then had to fit the content to frame.

Here is my final Front Cover Desgin ...



Double Page Spread design

For my Double page spread I decided to copy the following image, I copied ths image becuase it was simple and I thought that it would link in well with the design of my other two pages. I used a black and white image of Anthony which I edited myself, I opened it into Indesign and used the rectangle frame tool and placed my image within the box, then fitting it to frame. On the left hand page is my interview which I had prepared with Anthony, I used the Font  stencil to get a simalur style title, I also used the colour red to give it that clear link.

 The image below is the double page spread which I decided to link mine too:

My interview with Anthony i wrote down notes and exapanded on them in my interview, Anthony actually records his own music but not to the level that we talk about. I took loads of my own images of them recording and just having fun so that it gives a range of images, some serious, some fun.

This link shows my images for the Double Page Spread,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61217461@N07/sets/72157626397447874/

my double page spread...