The final lesson

Today was the final lesson making our magazine covers, we got started straight away because we knew that we had a mountain of work to get through. The first thing that we done was finish off the lengthy process of cutting out the image of Adaggio from the background and adding him to the front cover. But after we completed the lassoing of the image we decided that from looking at a classical magazine (music) they only had one image of a person, that being the main cover image so we decided to leave the Adaggio picture for the inside page.

We then started to think about what font we wanted the masthead to be in and tried most of them out and decided to use "cracked" because it gave our magazine the edge that it needed. It was then that we realised that we would have to change the position of the masthead because from looking at other magazines we noticed that the masthead was nearly always in the left hand corner or stretched out across the top, the latter was what we decided to do.

It was then after fixing the masthead that we chose to add a banner, we took this as a chance to show what genre we was trying to represent with the magazine by putting "The UK's only urban classical magazine: The violin edition" the adding of "...The violin edition" happened because we thought that it would be a good idea if our magazine focused on certain things in certain issues and also it was a good way to cover up the fact that the only pictures we had were of people with violins. We also added a little tag line underneath the masthead saying "No strings attached" just to give people something catchy to remember it by.

We then felt like we had finished the front cover of our magazine so moved on to the inside page. We already had the image that we wanted ready and cut out so all we needed to do was sort out how we was going to display the contents of the magazine. Yarohey had this idea of putting piano keys on the left hand side of the page and use the colours black and white alternatively to write what was in our magazine and on what page number you would find it, so as I done this Yarohey searched on the internet to look for people who we could put in the contents page.

Then we added in the picture of Adaggio o the contents page but had to flip it because the way it was originally the image was looking out from the magazine and we wanted it to look into the magazine. What we then realised was that we had forgotten to include the price on the front cover and come up with £3.60, which is a bit expensive but because it has some of the classical elements in the magazine I think it's an ok price. After we had done this we decided that our magazine cover and inside page was completed.

The end product: