Media studies

1. Contents page production

2. Firstly when producing my contents page I added the
photograph that I had taken. I made sure the photograph had
similar colours to the front cover image as it had green colours
from the grass and other bright colours from the spray paint,
spray paint also a continuous theme of my images. I added the
image to the top of the page as this was part of my design and
other things would be below the image. I used the picture
content tool to make the image the right size and fit in what I
could into the image box.
I then added text to the page. I added the ‘contents’, issue
number and cover date, the page number for what the
image at the top would be an article for. I did the ‘contents’
in font Birth of a hero size 72pt. I added the issue number
and cover date in the ‘dead kansas’ font in size 9pt. I used
dead kansas because it went with the eroded scheme of
fonts in the magazine. I added a large page number for what
the article of the image would be on. I also added the
masthead to the midsection with ‘this week’ next to it in
the same contents font with a line drawn with line tool
under it to separate what would be the articles later from it.

3. I then added the masthead to the midsection of the page
with ‘this week next to it in the ‘birth of a hero’ font. I then
added lines to separate the columns using the line tool. I
did this because I wanted there to be more defined
columns. I also added to two separate columns ‘Regulars’
and ‘Features’ to categorise where readers can find certain
articles. This text was done in the font ‘birth of a hero’ in
size 36pt
I also then added the articles and page numbers to
cohere with these. The font I used was bronx bystreets
to introduce the articles in green colour, I used size 10pt
for this. For the small description of the article I did it in
arial size 9pt. I made this slightly smaller because it
makes the article name stand out more which is what
the reader will first see. I also added page numbers
along the left hand side of each column. The page
numbers were also green coloured with the bronx
bystreets font in size 11pt.

4. I then added my images to the product. After this
it was done. To put the images in I had to use the
picture content tool to change the size of the
image and what’s cropped off it. For most the
images it was simply making sure they fit in the
right size, however the image representing the
arctic monkeys article took more work. I wanted
the A (for arctic) and the M (for monkeys) to both
stay in the image with the singer in-between as
well as a white font going over it to introduce the
article so I had to make sure it was the perfect
size. I also had to make the image spread across
two columns, I did this for the effect of it, I felt
that it looked better this way and stood out for
people to notice it. The white font on the article
was made white so it was more visible and done in
the font Arial at size 9pt. Also the page number to
go with it was in white as well in the font bronx
bystreets at size 14pt. To finish it all off I added the
page number 1 to the bottom corner of the
contents page.