Organisation: Final Photoshoot

Drafting and Planning: DPS QR Code & Article Additions

I noticed that my DPS article wasn’t promoting anything, and so I decided to add a small paragraph about Second Passing playing at Glastonbury 2017.

I also noticed the left side of my DPS had a large blank space, to fill this, I added a QR Code to a Outre.com where readers can purchase tickets to Glastonbury, where Second Passing will be playing.

Drafting and Planning: Front Cover - Background Colour Change

In response to my feedback, I changed the colour of my front cover’s background. I did this because my cover had a lot of negative space that was begging for the readers’ attention, to reduce this effect; I changed the colour to create symbiosis between my magazine and my artist (blue denim).

Drafting and Planning: Pugs

After adding my QR code, I still had some negative space that I wanted to fill, to do this, I decided to use pug saying “Win 2 VIP tickets…”, I have then put the page number to page 101 to correlate with the “Merch” page, this will make my magazine seem more realistic as Merch and competitions are often found near each other.

Drafting and Planning: QR Code

Another piece of feedback I received was to add a QR code to offer my audience a deal when they subscribe to the online version of my magazine (outre.com). This will allow me to reach a wider audience, by offering 6 months’ half price I will hopefully encourage readers to buy the magazine for the perks.

Drafting and Planning: Table of Contents Improvements

On my feedback, it was suggested that I should change the cluster of album covers to something else as it looked unprofessional and slightly messy. Another suggestion was to add more content to my magazine, as monthly magazines tend to have 100+ pages. To do this, instead of changing all the page numbers, I decided to add more articles, to match album reviews, I added live reviews, where I will write about artist’s concerts, I also added an exposure tab, where new artists are featured to get their names out in the industry. This allows my magazine to look more full and more value for money.

Drafting and Planning: Differences Between First and Final Draft

(Left: First Draft, Right: Final Draft) after receiving feedback on my first draft, I made some draftic improvements to my cover and conents page. One of the improvements to my cover was changing my secondary cover lines, in my first draft my secondary cover lines stuck out like a sore thumb, they didn’t fit my magazine’s style, this made it look unprofesional. Another big change was my main cover line, after completeing my new secondary cover lines, my main cover line didn’t stand out and shout at the reader to grab their attention., to beat this, I changed the fonts and colours of the font’s background. A third big change was my skyline, in my first draft, my skyline was minimal and boring, in my fonal draft, I made the background match my masthead, and included two layers of text, one white and one black.

On my contents page, I updated my mini-cover (located above my table of contents) to be the same as my updated cover. Also on my table of contents, I changed the colour of the numbers on the right hand side of the table. I also filled the blank space below my image. To fill space, I made a second DPS just as a filler, I also filled the space with album covers that I made (each of which are mentioned in the “Album Reviews” tab).

(Left: First Draft, Right: Final Draft)  not much changed on my PS between my fist and final draft. I replaced the call out “Pre-Order…” with my pull quote as it looked unprofesional. I also received the feedback that there wasn’t enough content on my DPS, so I increased the length of my article.