DPS Project

 This is the picture I took originally, and as you can see in the second screen shot, I have completely deleted the background and changed it to black instead and also made the image black and white because all my pages are done in black and white. The reason I chose a black background this time was to increase variety, and to gave a surprise to the audience, but my main reason would be that blues associates with the ‘dark’ a dark room playing music kind of thing. However the reason to why the bottom picture looks different is because I have made changes by putting in extra effort such as increasing the exposure and vibrance to make the image seem more, 'rough' kind of feel.

 In this shot, I have added a title for my dps, this associates directly with the contents page, because the headlines is the same as well as the page number, this is to make sure that they are from the same magazine. Fonts used are exactly the same, blues..... mast head font, footer exactly the same as the contents page. And here I wanted some more variation so I included the japanese name of the band, well it is red as backnumber.

 And as you can see I have include a quotation below the heading to make the article seem more reliable and realistic to the reader, this will make them think that this is actually about the actual band and have been research thoroughly.

In this last one you will see on the top left I have included the same font as the content page of 'japan' and also included the 'international' sub, the reason I decided to this this was again to keep the styles constant and reliable.

Reflection for context page

After analyzing my own contents page and asking for further feedback I have found out that my model image seems to be a little off to what audiences prefer. Most of them mentioned that the model used for the image doesn't seem suitable to the piano and the background that surrounds it. Instead it might be better to use an image that doesn't contain a model, which will be more suitable to the page because the other 2 images is off non model, after changing the image I believe that audience's reaction will improve due to stability of picture types.

As for my layouts, it is preferable to keep them same as the reactions given by audience were quite great in response. They mentioned that it looked really professional as the template used was from a similar kind of magazine, simply it looked familiar to them and not something out of place for them.

And mistakes I made were the page number constants, as I changed most of the numbers to even numbers, because this suggests that they are all double page spreads and the last section which contains odd numbers clearly separates the context of music and business. Audiences reactions to this was quite good as well because it gave them a clear idea of that the earlier pages will be business and the rest will be music related.

Fonts and text size as well as types were good and simple, audience really liked the idea that they are in a houses type which made it seem more reliable as a higher class magazine, however when compared to the first cover page even though fonts are the same the fact that this is black and white and the cover is color gave audiences a bad impact, as so I decided to make every work I make black and white. After having made the changes most audiences mentioned that house style is constant and looks like they are from the same magazine by eye recognition even not confirming from the footer where the masthead name is there. And I guess I did forget to put in a page number in the footer so I will also put a page number probably on the right side as well as move some parts to the right side.

And as you can see, here is the final version of it, I have made changes to the footer to include, a contact website and have included the issue number which relates to a vintage number. However i decided not to change my first image, this is because even if it doesn't really suit well with the other pictures, I decided that it is fine that way, because entirely my main model is Jessie, so there is a point in making her stand out, and it does not seem out of place because the cover page also contains her.

And also in addition I have also made some changes to my cover page, and have made it into black and white and not colour instead, mainly this is because my magazine's house style is vintage. In the good old days I believe that they were no colour magazines just yet.