My Pages almost finished!!

My Front Cover is finished. There is just a few more things i need to add on my contents page and a couple more things I want to add on my double page spread that I cant quite put my finger on yet!

Audience Feedback.

I uploaded my Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread to Facebook to get some audience feedback on my magazine pages so far. I got some positive comments that I am extremely happy with, but more importantly some things I need to improve on. I've taken these comments on board and will take them into consideration when I am finishing my pages. 

Additional Feature Added

I added a bar code to my magazine because unlike the school magazine in the preliminary task being free, this will be purchased. Above I have included the date and price for both the UK and EU which is a standard feature in most magazines. It was important that I included this otherwise my magazine wouldn't seem realistic as mostly every magazine has this unless it is a free magazine. 

Editing

Using Blending Options.

When creating my title I wanted it to be simple but effective. When I eventually chose my font and colour to use for my title I thought something was missing, it looked too plain and a bit unprofessional. I decided to look into some options and I discovered the blending options. I used a 'drop shadow' effect around my text to give it more of a professional look. I thought this worked really well with my title and that it was finally looking how I wanted it to. 

My Front Cover, Contents Page & Double Page Spread

This is my front cover, contents page and double page spread (Unfinished). Even though they are not completed I am going to put them onto some social networking sites and get some audience feed back.

 

Editing my Image.

To begin with the image I wanted to include of my model looked out of place. I couldn't fit it in most places because if I did it would cover writing. I couldn't have my image covering text but at the same time I wanted to include it because it represented my artist and cover story well. I eventually decided to blended so it was a faded figure. I did this by using blending options. I went onto blending options and changed the 'Fill Opacity' from 100 to 15, so it was more faded and text that overlapped with the image was seen. I thought this looked really effective.