FINISHED CONTENTS PAGE

Now after completing my contents page I will continue to provide a detailed analysis explaining my
various actions that I have taken to get to this stage of production. However, now that I am looking at my magazine after a few days of not completing it I am starting to notice slight faults with it, such as:

• The lack of imaginative photos with my younger brother
• I do not like the positioning of the 'PAGES 40-46' 
• I also think that the actual contents do not match the required size
• I think the contents look too cramped, almost like they are trying to fit stuff in that they do not need.
• I just think that it looks too basic all together, therefore I am going to make some changes according to my faults that I have picked out
• One of my friends also said to me that the title of the entire page 'CONTENTS PAGE' that the 's' at the end of contents was too big and that it looked like the two words were all one word, defeating the purpose of my title. Therefore, that will also be a change I am going to make. 

MAKING CHANGES

1. I firstly want the contents to be moved and improved slightly, because it has been annoying me for a while, and I think it does not look like a conventional rock magazine, therefore I am going to remove some of the text that is contained in the contents to spread it all out more: 

I have also increased the size of the 'FEATURES' and the 'EVERY MONTH' so it looks like an actual subheading instead of just a bold piece of text.

2. I secondly want to put more interesting photos in my magazine, to make it look like it does not just feature music, but also some action shots of various things. A few months ago I had three photo shoots with my younger brother, one being the initial, one being the improved and one being an action shot. I wish to use what I called the 'money shot' in my magazine, to bring it together more, so it looks like it has more variation. I also may use some of the photos from the improved photo shoot, because I liked what he was wearing in those photos. Also, this shows that I have taken photos in different places and with different ideas. 

I am going to firstly make some of the images I already have smaller: 

and I have also deleted one photo of the cover model that I thought made this particular area of my contents page look more cramped. 

I will now insert the desired image to make it look compact and not to empty:

I think that this image has made the collage look improved but I think that I need to edit the photo more to make it 'fit in' with the rocky and bright theme that I have got going on, on my contents page. 

3. I am going to edit the photo using the application Fireworks:

Now that I have uploaded the photo I can begin the editing process, to make it more brighter and bring the contrast up slightly, however I do not know how to do this, therefore I am going to have to look up how I am going to change the contrast. 

I have tried to change the contrast on the application and I have Google searched the various different ways I can change contrast however I can not find a solution, therefore I am going to try on a different program, Photoshop.

On Photoshop it is much easier to use: 

To begin editing I select the tab filter so see the various different options I have for changing colour, I then start to scroll over the different options that I have, which will allow me to change the exposure and brightness of the picture. 

Once you click on one of the tabs, this comes up:

Now that I have selected the type of picture that I want, I can now scroll through the options and I can see what I am choosing along the right hand side and on the left I can see what it does to the picture. The effect you can see is the 'Film Grain' which I like but I want to have a look through a few more:

However, after looking at different effects on the pictures I have decided that I like the first effect best out of the three, this effect is called 'poster effect' and i think that it is the one that reflects my themes more than the others, therefore I am going to use it. 

This is my now finished contents page, with the various changes done to it. I am much prouder with this version of my contents page, and I think it looks much better and it reflects my themes properly and successfully.