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The table of contents that I will be using for my magazine :

Some changes to the table of contents that I based off mine would be a tag on the upper right of the page. I did contemplate on whether or not to do so; however, I felt as this tag was redundant and not useful to my audience at all. Not only that but it would have made it a predicament for me to plop my other image if this tag was created. Also, I decided to brand the table of contents by putting my magazine's title and issue date because I believed that this feature is necessary to keep the continuity in check; this feature was implemented in the feature spread so it has to be implemented on every page including the table of contents. Because I did not add a tag on the top right and most tables of contents in my genre have an individual in a suit as an image, I put an image from one of my photo-shoots of this young lady on the top right. This image was not aligned to what I felt would look best, so I flipped it over a horizontal axis to get the look I wanted. This image impl...

The creation of my table of contents I had to come up with ideas that not only fit the genre but also fell in line with other magazines in the genre. The table of contents I based mine off had aspects that I liked and contained various features that I felt comfortable mimicking for my table of contents. The entire creation of my magazine I wanted to make it simple and easy to read, which must magazines in my genre follow this pattern. I went with black and white font since these colors are easy to read and are visible to the reader while letting the reader see the background/ image I used for the table contents page. Mimicking the red bar, I wanted it to be included in my design because I see it symbolizing power, a quirk that entrepreneurs need to have to actually persist in their line of work. Since I had done a photo-shoot that took place at the beach, I felt as if it was a distinct feature that should cover up the entire page. This image conveys a sense of relief or...

With these changes and alterations with ideas, my completed feature spread was created:

Now, my spread contains several aspects that I have not mentioned in my previous post that I will mention now. One major aspect of the feature spreads in the genre that I researched contained an image revolving the cover, which may feature spread has as well, and the feature spread’s actual bulk- the actual article- was wrapped around the picture. Usually, the words wrapped around the image on the image’s right side and not the left, one side only. This feature is also in my spread since it can be generalized to my specific genre. The genre that I researched also had drop caps within their feature spreads, so I decided that it was necessary for my feature spread to have one as well. Since the business genre usually had spreads that contained font, which was black, the color for my font would also be black. After a little thought, it does make some sense that this genre would consider only black within a spread because it is easy to read with a white background, which most spre...

The creation of my magazine spread was a unique experience in InDesign since I have never used the program to create one in the first place. Many ideas circulated in my mind beforehand such as how simplistic I wanted it to look because of my research into the genre that my magazine resides.  The first step in the making of the spread was getting to pages next to each other to represent an opened magazine. I had to create a new document in InDesign starting at page number two and creating a new page so both pages are next to each other- illustrating a spread.  Since I researched the Entrepreneur magazine, their spreads consisted of very simplistic features: fonts, colors, images at most two within a spread in their magazine. The spread that I created has the Times New Roman font fluttered throughout the spread conveying its simplistic nature like the genre. The spread has images, both corresponding to the main idea that is being about. The title of the spread is bolded...

The Cover For My Magazine:

After creating what I have “deemed my cover”, I noticed that I decided on some design choices that represent my magazine as an entirely different entity compared to the ones that I have studied in terms of font and color. I revamped the cover’s look entirely: changing each of the colors of the fonts to a white with a black outline. This design is more down to earth and does not try to impact the readers with bright colors. The genre that I have researched generally contain black font for their covers; however, white does come up every so often for specific covers that have dark images, like mine. Also, the main cover’s model/ person the feature spread will be about was not named on the bottom left of the magazine above the anchorage, so that was added. Once again, the font used was Times New Roman for the simplistic feel, style and look. The font itself is usually used in the business genre some others included Ariel and Calibri; however, from the three that the genre utilizes I...

While creating and adapting the cover of my magazine in InDesign I got in a couple hiccups along the way. One of them included the title of the cover since in previous renditions of my cover conceived the idea that my title, "Opulence & Grandeur", will be black in color; however, I wanted my cover to represent a divide between light and dark. The dark portions of the cover caused me to change the color to one that is more prominent and can be seen: white with an outline of black. I also wanted to darken the cover a little more so I used InDesign's software to darken the image. Using the prior knowledge of my magazine's genre that I studied beforehand, I produced a headline that would catch the eyes of young entrepreneurs or at least young individuals wanting to turn their lives for the better. Following the cover line, I produced anchorage text for my audience: individuals, white males, will be reading my magazine need to know what the magazine that they a...