Stages of making my improved double page spread :

Lauren Fitzsimons

Reason for this draft …

• I decided to make this double page spread from the first drafts I have done because I realised that in real magazines the person on the front would often match with the double page spread. For example I had my model Cheyenne in a convict outfit but I had created a double page spread with a girly theme these didn’t match so I decided that I need to tie this theme together this is the reason for this draft. To match the front cover image to the double page spread I thought that a police/convict theme would go nicely with this.

Making of police banners:

• This is my screen shot of my banners here I made four different versions of the police banners because I wanted to try all different text types in order to achieve my final outcome. I made these banners by creating shapes boxes and the adding text over the top of this. To make the bottom one was a little more complicated I had to make a shapes box the I have to make individual squares and scew them to go lopsided then I added my text as a final step.

This is my final banners that I made from Photoshop I decided that my favourite one was the 4th one down as it was clear and actually looked like a proper police banner. I also like the last one because this is a little bit different to the other three but I still think this is effective and I also chose this one to go on my double page spread.

Making polaroid's

• This here is my screen shot of me making polaroid’s I started off making one in Photoshop and to make it stand out I added a stroke in black just to outline the picture and make it stand out. I duplicated the layer 3 times so that I would have three more to work with and I just placed my chosen pictures into them. I think the outcome of these look quite successful and professional.

Here are my chosen texts that I used on my police banners my favourite was the second but I also liked the last one because it was edgy and different however wouldn’t be clear like a police banner would. All four are quite different and this is why I chose to do so many drafts.

This is my text that was used on the double page spread I like this font as I think the background of the text helps it stand out much more than a normal text would. Ii like the edgy twist of some of the white spaces being eliminated. I decided to put the criminal text in black as its bold and I also think that’s what a police file would be like. The pink for Cheyenne’s name was to give it a girly twist and this would appeal to my target audience.

Process one

• The columns for the boxes of text was very easy to do as I had looked back at my plans and referred to these when making the layout of my double page spread. Once I had my layout right I copied and pasted my interview into the boxes this made it flow nicely. Here I have added my police tape to the double page spread from when I made it earlier in Photoshop. I wanted this to run along the top of the double page spread because I wanted to make it look like it was two pages together. Here I have also added polaroid's to my piece because I wanted them to break up the text I have left spaces for the other two which i have to place there. I have also changed the text to ‘verdrana’ which I quite like as its clear and easy to read.

Second stage

• Here this is my second stage here I have picked out the questions and have changed the colour and made them bold so they don’t blend in with the rest of the text. I have also added another police border to the top of the page so they are both running along each other. I wanted to pick pink for the text as I thought this would go with the cover stars name and also with the front page and contents page. The size of the text I have also changes as I noticed that when looking though them the font would be a size either 8 or 10 and mine was 12 so it was too big for the purpose.

Third stage

• Here I have changed the colours of the text as I thought I could tie in the border colour of yellow in as well so I made the questions pink and yellow in a pattern. I have also added boxes behind the questions as they stand out but also tie in with the police ‘criminals background file’ too.