This is my Draft 4 for my music magazine, I have watched the screencastify that Miss Hales so kindly created and edited my: front cover, contents page and double page spread in order to maximise the success of my magazine. Below is a list of bullet points as to what I altered in all three pages.

Front Cover:

• For my front cover I have decided to keep the original background colour as blue as the black didn’t look as good.
• I then deleted the images at the top of the page as I didn’t have enough time to gather more images, although this has allowed me to lift the masthead higher creating more space.
• I have then added in an issue, date and price.
• following on from this I have deleted the plug saying ‘ Bring us hip-hops next big star’ as it was taking up space and wasn’t really needed.
• Moreover I have added in more colour to the text adding in red and a gold gradient. The masthead is now gold and the box around the image is gold.
• not to mention I have also changed the inset and plug images to picture of my own.
• At the start of each plug I have increased the size of the first word and thee rest of the text is decreased in size this captures the audiences eyes more.
• The stars name ‘Willem Dyas’ is now larger than the ‘A star in our eyes’ as it looked out of place in the original front cover.
• I have also replaced the plugs with my own stars instead of existing stars.
• Miss said that my typeface shouldn’t look the same as the masthead and have decided to change that to a ‘ Gill Sans Ultra Bold Condensed’ font.
• Finally I have deleted the ‘teaser Pics’ as it had no relevance to my cover.

Contents Page: 

• The headline ‘contents’ for this page is now gold instead of black
• the shape behind the text and the date is now in a light pink, this adds more exuberance to the page and makes the text easier to read.
• Furthermore I have edited the fonts typeface as it was considered ‘Essay like’ as a result of this comment it is no longer a sans serif and in fact is now just a serif font, in doing this tho I have had to rethink my colour choice and it now incorporates white and black in the text.
• I had to correct the word ‘exclusives’ as I spelt it like this: ‘exvlusives’.
• I then had to add a page number to the page to make it look professional.
• Finally I have deleted some of the page numbers to create more room between the page number and the text saying ‘regular’

Double Page Spread:

• For my double page spread the first thing I altered was layout of my columns and stand first, the stand first has now been swapped with the headline so that the text is easier to read.
• Following on from this I resized my image so that it didn’t look stretched.
• The shapes behind the columns had a gap between them that didn’t look right so I filled in the gap in order for the page top look smart.
• I then added in who the article was written by and who it was photographed by.
• I also replaced the text with my actual article.

After finishing these changes I believe my pages were looking much better and added a sense of passion to my work, I was most impressed with the gold gradient that had a personal relationship to my genre; hip-hop.