After a series of sleepless nights and hard work. Here is my finished products:

I am having trouble uploading my contents page on to blogger. I think this is because i have saved the page wrongly and cannot reverse the changes therefore my contents page is too big to fit into my blogg

I have finished my Contents page. I have to admit, it was a  bot of a rush as i was under a lot of pressure to finish it quickly. I stayed up late lastnight working on the critiscim my teacher gave to me. She said yesterday that my contents page did not look as if it was part of the rest of my magazine. Due to this i changed many things and its a finally finished. Now, all i need to do is edit and improve my other pages...IN 2 DAYS!!

All the pictures taken yesterday have been uploaded on to my contents page. Now all I need to do today is apply my AMAZING Photoshop skills ;) If i can do this as quick as possible I may be able to pull it off.

Over the weekend i managed to do alot on my contents page. The only problem was, i didnt have enough pictures and i didnt want to use the same pictures twice. So today i am planning to go and take some last mnuite pictures of my main feature on my contents page. Lets hope it goes well!

I have just started on my contents page today and am still very lost for ideas. I am worried  a lot as the deadline my teacher has given to me is 27th of Aril, this is actually an extended deadline as I informed her earlier i would not be able to complete all of my contents page, double spread page and front cover in time. I am now under a lot of pressure as i have basically a week to do my contents page and run over and do last edits on my other pages. This week will surely be a struggle!

I have finally finished my double spread sheet today. My next task is to go on to my contents page but I will start this another time seeing as I am knackerd from doing my double page spread. My only problem is that I have no idea what to do for my contents page. I will have to have a long think about this.

I have nearly finsihed my double spread page but just have to actually type up my interview taking place on my page. I feel as if my phototshop skills continue to improve and I find out new things each lesson and each time i use the program. Its going great so far!!

Today i have been a little stuck on what else to do and add in into my double page spread. So instead of going on photoshop today, I bought a handfull of music magazines and researched online for some ideas on double spread pages. I now have a better idea on some of the things i can add in mine. So far it seems to be going
well. This is a picture of the magazines I collected and looked through...

I was able to view the billboard magazine online. Unfortunately i could not find the entire magazine and therefore not find any double spread page in the magazine but i did try very hard as Billboard is a magazine that i believe is most similar to the image that i am trying to portrait through my magazine.

This left me with the 2 double spread pages below the billboard front cover, both  have different designs and layouts that left me thinking how i would like mine to be formatted. The middle one has a portrait layout with the text spread right across the page. The text isn't the only thing spread round the page, the main character herself is spread right across the page and is really useful in capturing the eyes of the audience.

The last double spread page is formatted in a landscape way. This double spread page intrigued me as i hadn't thought of anything like this. This is the advantage of researching and looking up other magazines  as i get ideas that i wouldn't have thought of. This magazine intended to have half of the double spread page just  displaying a picture of Tinie Tempah  while the other half gives an article about him. I believe having half of the double spread as just a picture emphasises the character and can also capture the eye of the audience VERY easily depending on the look of the character or in this case the reputation of the characters ( Famous Rap star Tinie Tempah).  Both picture and article are Landscape, this opened a new channel of thought for me as i only imagined a double spread page being portrait but this magazine have done it the other way and it still looks good.

I have made a start to my double spread page today and though of a great new concept for it. I have decided to have someone being signed by a record label as my cover story. I have decided to add this in on the front page so my front page gives a slight insight on my double page spread. I personally think this is a good idea. :)

For this double spread page it is important that I get the right characters and the right props to make the scene of the double page spread realistic. I plan to have a manager of a record label signing a young new rap star. I will ensure that the manager of the record label is dressed distinctivly different from the newly signed artist in order to diffreitiate between the two different characters. I will ensure that the newly signed artist is clothed in urban fahion in order to appeal to my target market of 16 - 21 year old urban youths.