Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Plan of the layout of the Contents 1


I designed the draft layout of the Contents Page on Microsoft Publisher. This is my first draft, one of three. I used the tools on Microsoft Publisher to design the layout. I have looked at different contents pages in magazines such as NME and Kerrang! and i will use these contents pages as templates, however, I will not copy them.

Fonts
The main word "Contents", on this draft is in in the font style Haettenschweiler. I have sized the word to 72 so it stands out on the page. I put the word "CONTENTS" in a dark yellow as this stands out to the eye. I designed the word "CONTENTS" on Word Art. I drew out a plain Black box to put the word "CONTENTS" on, as the word "Contents" is in a dark yellow i decided to put the word on a dark background to make it stand right out to the eye.
The actual numbers to the pages in the magazine again I designed on Microsoft Publisher. I firstly drew out a dark Grey box and outlined the edge of the rectangular box with Black, this made the box holding the number more visible. Again the number was designed on Microsoft Word Art. I used the font type Haettenschweiler again, and like the title of the page I put it in a dark Yellow. The numbers will not be as big as the rest of the text on the page, in fact it will be the smallest text on the page.
The rest of the text on the page, such as the name of the articles is going to be in the font type Tahoma Small Cap. Th saying " Rock News.Rock the World. Rock music is not a hobby, its life!" is going to also be in the font type Tahoma Small Cap.

Images
The images on the Contents Page are going to be the images took by me. Each of the pictures are going to represent the band and its article. The images are going to be different sizes and I may even edit the pictures.

Extras
I will also give a preview of what posters are in the magazines. After looking in the contents pages of NME and Kerrang! I noticed the contents pages had subscription offers so I will do the same. But I will make the subscription offer look different and individual.






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