My next steps over Christmas and January

- Photo-shoot- take my photos at wicksteed and house.
- Get my target audience to evaluate my contents page and front cover
- Hot seat my main character for my double page spread
- Complete my draft double page spread

The photos I took for the first go of my Front cover and contents page

My cover picture

To create my picture on my front cover I used my main character (John Lloyd De La Rosa) and set up a small stage and put the decks and speakers on it. I also used lighting to give it a nightclub/festival feel. When it comes to my final pictures I will use real decks, more decks, more lighting, costume and setting, this will give it the clean, realistic and festival finish.

evaluating my first attempts

Overall I think my first attempts of my cover page and contents page were very successful. They are very similar to how I imagined them to look. I used my plan to guide me into making them and I have stuck to the colour scheme and layout. I made up some cover lines which are similar to ones I found on the internet and they fit very well in on the cover page. When it comes to making my final pieces I will use these first attempts to guide me. When I make my final piece it will have a clean finish and a fresh flow throughout the pages.

My first attempt of my contents page

My first attempt of my front cover

How I want my contents to look

The style of my charcter

Here are three styles of the type of clothes I'd like my main character to be wearing. I have chosen these styles because they are extremely modern and they are the types of clothing that many DJs wear

Making my masthead (2)

1- firstly I looked at Dafont.com to find a font that suited my genre of music.

2- The font 'Musicnet' suited my genre and I preferred it to the other fonts so I chose this one.

3- I put the font to say 'Pulse' and liked the look of it

4- I found a picture of a pulse in the electronic blue that suited with my colour scheme.

5- I then went onto a Photoshop software and changed the font to white and blended the font and the pulse together.

6- From this I have my final masthead which I am very happy with as it goes with my music genre very well in the way it looks and the way it sounds.

Making my masthead (1)

Contents page ideas