Preliminary cover

This is my preliminary cover. I asked my peers what they think I should improve, they recommended I make all the fonts on the cover the same style and make the masthead a lot more noticeable. 

Techniques used on double page spread

I needed to wrap text round the shoulder of the image but as this picture was a background image i had to create a new shape and mould it to the shape of the shoulder then wrap the text around that to give the impression the text is wrapping around his shoulder.

For the background image of the double page spread the original image was around 50mm too small in terms of width, to resolve this problem I had to double up the image and then crop from left to right so it appeared that the bricks continued.

Masthead and logo

This is the masthead I made, i used the background to make the title of the magazine stand out on the front page. I created the logo by getting a picture of an acoustic guitar from the internet then tracing around it on photoshop then, after that, filling it in white and creating a black circle to clearly show the genre of the magazine.

Practice double page spread

Second attempt

I have included a page number and magazine title and the bottom of each page. I also inserted an image into a photo box then used text wrap from the window menu and pushed the text 1mm out horizontally and 2mm vertically.

First attempt