Construction - Content Page

In constructing my content page I used photoshop, in which I began with the outlining of my magazine.

FX Tool

Using a rectangular vector I made a large grey rectangular. Using the same rectangular vector tool i made the division between the music chart list and the other sections. I once again I used the vector tool and created another box in which I would place the list of articles - I added a (black,white and grey) gradient effect onto the box using the FX tool. Originally the rectangular vectors I used to divide my sectors were a dark red however looking from my front cover to the content page I found that baby blue was the dominate colour moreover in order to make the obvious link between the two I changed the vectors to baby blue.

Using the same rectangular vector I created light grey boxes, for different genres of music I am going to list. Using the arrows on the keyboard I was able to do accurate spacing between the light grey boxes. I then used same rectangular vector tools drew up three pairs of rectangular boxes and used it to cut the light grey boxes in half. I Incorporated two of the main colours from my front cover (baby blue and dark red) into two of the pairs of the rectangular vectors and then made the last pair the same colour as the box (dark grey). I then added the list of songs (the font of the titles of the genre of music will be Pro Condensed Bold along with the names of the songs; the name of the artists will be Century). The section in between the vectors I created using the selection tool and created white boxes on top of that I placed numbers (font - Century). Also the headings to music charts (Albums/Singles/This Week) i used the font American Purpose and used baby blue as the colour.




Next the main heading to my music chart I used American Purpose and used the three baby blue, white and a dark burgundy and created 'N0.1 on the chart'. In the top right corner I created a small logo for my music chart. The top half I used the rectangular vector tool and created a white box, on top of that I created (text tool) the word 'Chart's' I changed the colour of the apostrophe from black to baby blue. On the bottom half of my logo I used the rectangular vector tool again and created a black box, in the black box I placed the words 'Hot 100'  (Font - Condensed Arial, colour - red).


Further on I made the a competition box. Using the rectangular vector box again I created a black box and placed a outer glow effect with the FX tool. I then took one of my image and with the magic tool outlined my model and extracted it from the image. Next I duplicated the layer and dragged into my content page, with the transform tool I turned the image 89 degrees anticlockwise to create the impression that the model walking out of the box. With the font American Purpose I made the words 'WIN TICKETS' making sure all the letters were in uppercase to grab my reader's attention and made the colour baby blue to fit in with my house style. The description of the competition (underneath the title) I used the font 'Century' and the colour white (to contrast with the black box) informing my reader more about the competition.


Additionally I imported my masthead from my front cover to my content page in order for it to become more recognisable with my readers, hopefully turning it into a well known logo like 'Q magazine' (the signature Q). To import a file from one another, I had to first duplicate the layer of my masthead and drag it into a new file. From there I saved it as a PNG (flattening the layers together and removing the white background, then imported it. Next I created the words 'Contents' - all letters in uppercase and used the transform tool and rotated the word 180 degrees anticlockwise; shrinking it to size in order for it to fit into the letter 'B' of Buzzin. Underneath Buzzin I created the words 'This Week' - I wanted to show a variety in the fonts I used but not to the extent of making my magazine not look professional moreover I took a front from my front cover that I used probably once or twice (28 Days Later) and made it the font of 'This Week'.

I them took four of my images, using the transform tool and shrank it to fit in the gap I created. On top of the four images I created boxes (vector tool) and placed them in the bottom right corner of my images, on top of the boxes (font - American Purpose) I put numbers that would correspond to the different articles in my magazine.

Next I started working on my list of article sections which I called 'Features' and 'Music'. Using the rectangular vector again I created two white boxes, in those two white boxes (font - American Purpose) I wrote the words 'Feature' and 'Music'. Underneath the feature section I made the colour of the numbers (font - American Purpose) white, the title of the articles (font - Boris Black Boxx) baby blue and the description of each article (font - Century) white. Underneath the music section I made the colour of the numbers (font - American Purpose) and the title of the articles is black (the first and the second to last article are in font - American Purpose and the rest are in font - Century). To the right-hand side of my content page I placed one of my images in which I used the magic wand tool to extract it from its background then rotated it 89 degrees clockwise to give the impression the model is leaning off my content page, on top of that image I used the vector tool and created a box and placed a number inside to correspond to the article in the magazine (font - American Purpose).

Finally I completed the bottom section to my content page which I wanted my readers to read in order to get more information about my magazine. I made three paragraphs, the first paragraph contains information about my magazine website - I made the word 'Online' (font - Boris Black Boxx, colour - Red), on a separate layer I created '.Com Exclusives' (font - American Purpose, colour - Black), the rest of paragraph I used the font Century and made the colour black except from the last line which I Incorporated the colour baby blue. Likewise the same for my second paragraph except it was about upcoming music events, and so on the third paragraph except it was about subscribing to my magazine I also imported a PNG image of my front cover and placed it into my third paragraph as a sample of the magazines they will be subscribing to.

At the bottom of my magazine I placed the page number, name of my magazine, the month of the issue and the website of my magazine. The page number  and the name of my magazine (font - Boris Black Boxx), the month of the issue (font - 28 Days Later), the website of my magazine - I used the same format that I used on my front cover for my magazine website (I used the circular vector tool and  stretched it to make it look like a rectangle with circular edges and made it black. Next I placed the words 'Buzzin' and 'Com' along with a circlular vector on top of it, the font I used for 'Buzzin'  and 'Com' was 28 Days Later.