content construction

In this post I will be following what Bentley said in 1997 which was "The creative process is the rearranging of the old to create the new". The reason I will follow what Bentley said is to show I am taking common conventions when looking at pop contents pages and transferring this research into my work. I also believe I have followed what Hebdige said in 1988 which is that youth are represented as either "fun or trouble." The reason I think I am following his theory is because I have tried to make contents page represent youth as fun as much as I can.

To start my contents page I first added a box by using the rectangle marque tool I then used the paint bucket tool to make it blue I also put the box at a angle.

 

For the next part of constructing my magazine I added a box with the rectangle marque tool  then used the paint bucket tool to make it white I then put it over the top of the blue box.

I now start adding text to my contents page and the first bit of text I added was" Inside the Mag", I used this text  as pop magazine contents pages don't really use the word content and by doing this was following the same common conventions.
















For this step added my masthead from the cover page because most pop magazines include the cover page masthead on the contents page. I also used the rectangle marque tool and the bucket tool to make a orange box at the bottom of the contents page.

For then next two parts I added the image of the band I will be publishing on my double page spread. I also used the paint bucket and rectangle marque tool to make four white boxes on top of the orange box.

For the next step I added four images of each member of the band and put each image in inside one of the white boxes I made in the last step.

For this step I got a star brush of brusheezy and put it on the orange box.

For the next stage I put some text in the star I did this by using the horizontal text tool.

For this stage I used the rectangle marque tool and paint bucket tool to make a 5 orange boxes to the left and right of the image I did this because it looked a little boring and the spaced needed filling.

For this stage I added four yellow circles by using the elliptical marquee tool and the paint buckets tool.

For this part I added some text by using the horizontal text tool and then added the page number in the yellow circle.

I then added the page numbers into the rest of the yellow circles by using the horizontal text tool.

I then added three more parts of text by using the horizontal text tool I placed them into the three of the four empty boxes.

I then added a yellow transparent box by using the rectangle marque tool and the paint bucket tool to make a yellow box, I then changed the layer setting to overlay. I then used the Horizontal text tool to put the page number for the main story on top of the transparent box.

For this stage I put the text for the main story and a brief sentences under the main text telling the reader a little more information I did this by using the Horizontal text tool. The reason I made the main text orange is because the pop magazines I looked such as Top of the Pops and We Love Pop  use different colors than black to make key information to make it stand out. 

For the penultimate part I added the title inside this month and all the stories that are going to be in the magazine I did this though using the Horizontal text tool.

















To finish my contents page I added the page numbers in a orange text to make them stand out and to follow the common convention I came across when looking at the Top of the Pop and We love Pop magazine contents pages where they use different colours to make there page numbers stand out.
















After having a second look at my contents page I have made some changes because:
Spelling mistake.
The style of typography did not fit in with my genre of magazine.
And other reasons such as the colour pallet did not use pink.
What I have changed is the typography of some of the text, I have also used pink on my contents page so it follows common conventions used on a pop magazine.All the things I have changed have been so my contents page relates more to my target audience..
Below is my final design.