Contents first update

Here is my new contents page as I started again after my rough cut. Obviously as you can tell it's slightly bare as there are not any images on there currently but I am in the process of getting the photos for this page. Already you can see the clear differences as I have included the new AMP logo and the entire layout of this page is completely different after I felt it needed a lot of work and that is also what I received in feedback from my peers and teachers about the rough cut.

DPS first update

Here is my first update of my double page spread since restarting after my rough cut. I personally thought my rough cut DPS was quite poor and knew it would need a lot of work. However I feel this currently a massive improvement from the image alone it already looks a lot better than what my rough cut did. From the feedback I had received I knew that I had to retake the images and focus them more on the genre that I am covering which I think I have done in this update. Despite this progress this page is far from complete and I still have a lot of changes and decisions yet to make to this page before I can say my final cut is complete.

Front cover cut out

 After choosing this photo for my front cover, I took it into photo shop to do the necessary edits that I feel are need to make the photo look better than it currently does. In the bottom right is the different edits to the photo so I can how it will look in different aspects of photo shop and then overall in my magazine. You may notice that the hair and some of the image has been edited slightly, this is because it would be very difficult and would take a very long amount of time to edit each strand of hair and other awkward areas of the photo. Now my reasoning for doing this cut is very simple and is like the cutting I did for my DPS, in the sense that I will have bits of text behind my model but in front of the background. Now this would be very difficult to do if it was only one image, actually it would be basically impossible. So what I am doing like my DPS is actually putting one image on top of each other but, so with this image it has no background so would be the top layer and under would be the text and then the matching image with the background. In my next few post I will so you step by step how this works and looks after the edit.
 

Front Cover chosen photo

This is the chosen photo for my Front Cover. I have chose this photo because I feel it matches the conventions of a normal indie/rock magazine and overall normal front cover photo. I think I will make a double of the image and crop one and put it on top of the other and the it will allow me to put something behind his head and still use the background here. This image is ideally what I wanted for my Front cover as it is quite close up but still has the models head and shoulders. A slight concern may be the background but hopefully I will be able to include this as it seems to work quite well but if not then I will have to change it.

FC photos

These are the photos that I took for my Front Cover and I select one to use and then edit and hopefully put on the front cover of my magazine.

DPS photo edit

Here is my chosen DPS with it mostly edited, I have went for the black and white colour scheme as it once again is based upon the David Bowie double page spread. However, I feel the colours work better with the black and white as the t shirt was very light from the photo so it defines it more. The top image is the cutting of the image from the background, my main reasoning for doing this is so I can headlines or something inbetween the image and the background itself which is very common in the magazines I have looked and can be seen as quite a complex skill but have great affect. This is the progression of this photo and it is well on the way to being put into the magazine.

DPS chosen photo

From my photo shoot I have decided to go with this photo to be the main photo and main focus for my DPS. This photo is based upon a David Bowie pose from a magazine I have done an analysis on. I feel this photo is one I can use to incorporate the codes and conventions and is a strong image to use. It is probably also my favourite out of the collection I took for the DPS. This however is not how I will use it in my magaizne, I will need to do some editing to the colour and photo itself to make it suitable for my magazine.