Above is my improved full draft for my indie magazine. I think that the improvements that I have made to my magazine have made it look more coherent overall and have helped to better portray the indie genre. Improvements that I have made include:
- Front Cover
- Moved the cover lines closer together
- Made the cross bolder
- Made “Aware” bolder
- Changed “The Future Issue” to blue
- Changed the font of the cover line under the cover star’s name
- Contents Page
- Changed the colour of “Contents” and added a line underneath
- Added a third contents section
- Added a coloured emboss to each contents section
- Re-arranged the numbers to be in numerical order
- Added captions to the images
- Double Page Spread
- Moved article in from the top of the box
- Made “The Marigolds” bigger
- Added a caption to the image
- Moved the drop capital to the first paragraph and not the stand first
- Moved acknowledgments to fill the gap bottom left
However, as this is not my final draft I have received feedback from my teacher as to what to improve to make my final draft the best it can be. Her feedback was very helpful and informative and is written below.
Front Cover
- Centre plug and change wording to include the indie genre
- Move cover lines off the cover star’s face and format them the same
- Change A in Aware to white
- Add a banner over the masthead with low opacity
Contents Page
- Make sure line spacing is consistent
- Move “features” down
- Centre captions
- Add a banner with low opacity like suggested for the front page
Double Page Spread
- Make “The Marigolds” bigger
- Change the colour of the pull quote box
- Edit line spacing to move the article away from the right edge of the box
- Bold questions
- Use drop capital tool to align the drop capital better