Magazine

Magazine - Double Page Spread

Wednesday 28th January 2009

Today, I'm designing an article called 'Rock am Ring' for my double page spread.

I'm using Adobe Photoshop Elements to do that. So far, I have inserted two things, the picture of the stage with the crowd and the text logo of the Rock am Ring festival. Both images were found on Google Images. 

I have decided to think of the background for the article as the background is just the black page. Therefore to make it more attractive, I dragged quite interesting, high resolution picture found on wikipedia, to the article's canvas, I resized it and changed the opacity to 22. Now, the magazine page looks a lot better and attractive.

Now its time to think of the article itself (the text). According to my plan, the article should contain the dates of the festival, the list of metal/rock bands, the overview of the festival and some historical background. The best source for these information is wikipedia. So, according to the wikipedia's info I have wrote some part of the article. I didn't managed to write the whole article because the lesson is about to finish.

Magazine

Magazine - Double Page Spread

Monday 26th January 2009

On Monday, I started to plan the double page spread for my previous music magazine called ''Thunder''. I have decided to write a 'Rock am Ring' article, as the title appeared on the front cover.

The 'Rock am Ring' article will contain: list of rock/metal bands, different stages, dates of the festival, overview of the festival and probably the facilities.

I have decided to include rock/metal bands such as: Metallica, Machine Head, Kings of Leon, Linkin Park, Lost Prophets, Judas Priest, HIM, CKY, Apocalyptica and Nickelback.

The dates are as follows: 24th October, 25th October, 26th October 2009. I have also named the stages: North Stage, West Stage, East Stage and I've sorted the bands for these stages, however this is just a plan so things are remained to been seen while making the proper article, probably next lesson.