my contents to my Major Task:

12th March 2010...
how i ended up with my contents and changes i made to it.

1ST STEP: i used the image of the Dj decks as my background. croping it to the size i wanted it to be. then i decided to add two borders in an eye catching green colour. this makes the contents page more eye catching and also exiting. inside the border on the left, i have added two other box's which i coloured black with the filling tool, to relate to the background colour. i decided to use these green colours to appeal to a Dj sort of market, the way i used my ideas was because in Dj conserts and sets i have been to in london or festivals, they all tend to use bright lighting (some times green or red lazers) to intrest the audience.
2ND STEP: once i was happy with the colours and layout of the background image and the coloured borders, i then layed another (blue layer) to my Adobe InDesign - contents. with this i was able to try new ideas of fading and over lapping the titles. this didnt help me with the layout or design of my contents so in the end i just decided to add a green coloured text box for the tilte (using the exact same colour as the other greens) and used the same font as the front cover which was called - Ultra Serif SF to gain intrests and also to conect with my front cover. i put the title in bold to show a difference with the box's and the background - and personally i belive this stands out well.
3RD STEP: next i decided to add an image of my cousins boyfriend. this is the guy in the top left hand corner, i named him Dj Reck (as shown bellow)

- with my camera i took it looking up at him to show 'dominance' this gives the feel of a profesional Dj and i really like the outcome. i then added - an image i took in reading festival of a girl - who we zoomed in on - on a guys sholders. using this, it relates to my front cover, being the reading festival as a main aspect of my music magazine - which again relates to my breif. i also added a cropped image that i took from a Dj at the brixton academy who i went to see in june 2009 last year called 'Dj widemouth' (as shown bellow).

i couldnt use his name for copy write reasons, as i didnt have his permission, which means i had to crop out his face and any identiy on the photgraph. i called him 'Dj Wrip' to give a sence of musical aspects - creating a mix-match of different images. lastly - i added an image of 'Chipmunks' gig at reading festival. i took this image because of the really cool lighting. as i stated - Dj's tend to use bright lighting/lazers to Exite the audience, this is real proof of exitment from the middle of the crowd - were me and a freind were standing.
4TH STEP: on the layout i decided to use small text boxes with a yellow background to put the 'magazine page numbers' in. this relates to magazines as many mags have layered textboxes over images to show readers where to find the information from these images - again meeting the appeal of my breif. then once i had the correct Ultra Serif Sf fronts i added the numbers, and added in some more yellow text boxes bellow them to write a small description of each image (using smaller front - it still works well and is eye catching).
5TH STEP: lastly i added another layer to my Adobe InDesign contents (which enabled me to fade a black background to the text box down the right side to my page). after adding this new layer, i created another layer and added a small yellow textbox to write a small title called 'THIS WEEK'. next i added 5 new yellow textboxes and added at the top of each one small titles to enable information to become more insteresting to the readers eyes. these titles were: NEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS, FEEDBACK, GIGS, FEATURES. these each have simple yet obvious information relating to my magazine. i added page numbers and information in each of these box's using the same Ultra Serif Sf fronts as the other boxes on the page - and also again relating to the front cover.


once all of this was completed i took a step back and realized that the layout was correct and i was happy with it, also the image sizes and textboxes were correct. this means, my front cover and contents to my magazine has been completed - and i will now start on my double page spred of my interview - with band from reading. i am really pleased. :)

i wanted to create a contents like the one bellow - i got this image from www.google.com/images

although i havent used the same colour sceme.. i wanted to create text box's with numbers and information much like this contents from the distributer - NME.

i also used pictures in my contents, as it draws the readers eyes into and interesting page to look at, NME have also used this - and this is my main reason for using my own images to create the same aspects.