Some editing I did for the top banner in the double page spread. I'm still experimenting

contents page

There have been several changes to the contents page as I was recently told that it needed at least three images so I attempted to fit some more of the images i took on the page. it was difficult to make the images fit on the page but after a lot of trial and error I ended up with with this layout. there are elements that were similar to the previous contents page and it still conveys the same message. For me, the page looks far too complicated and chaotic, I would have rather had a minimalistic design but the selection of images fit poorly when I tried making the page less complicated. I got the inspiration for the bar at the right from a mixtape I was listening to (the Chixtape 3), I thought the page looked better with it as it has a contrasts the vibrant colours on the rest of the page.

I changed the main image for the contents page because I was frequently told by my peers that the previous image looked far too similar to the image on the front cover. So I took a different photo of my friend and wanted to quickly show a snippet of  the experimental editing I do through the short video above.

Further editing and experimenting of mini illustration

The image above is a bit sharpened because I wasn't able to download it directly
 Nonetheless, as you can see, I have made a few changes to the contents page, I made the font smaller and added some more text, I also added a box with text on the right, but the weirdest desicion I made is pretty obvious and it was a work of pure experimenting. The little illustration on the right of the main image. I chose to include that in the contents page because I didn't want to overflow it with text so I added the icon to represent the artists independant record label. This was done because nowadays most famous artists promote their record label and they become publicly recognised with it. I'm not sure if it fits but I will surely continue to edit it and try to make it fit subtley within the page.

This was the illustration I made, I drew it and took a photo and developed it through photoshop by adjusting the brightness, adding some artistic filters and adding colour.

Up until now I have done alot of experimenting to get to this stage. The background image is the product of a photo I took which was heavily edited with a number of artistic filters and changes to the colour settings. The main image was cropped from the image bellow, I pixelated it and added a motion blur which makes the image seem a bit distorted. With the combination of the background and the main image I wanted to connote drug use. In the Pbrnb genre drugs are a very significant topic and artists often portray their experiences when intoxicated through their lyrics. The cliche LSD type effect I used for the background is one of the most well known connotations for drug use and feelings of euphoria. The contents page is far from finished and after some feedback i'm going to make the main body of text smaller.

These are the main images that are going to influence the magazine's contents page. The top left image is mainly inspiration for the colours the page will consist of, as variations of bright colours tend to be associated with drug use which forms a big part of the Pbr&b genre. When coming across this Mojo contents page I instantly liked the layout and noticed how the creator played with the focus in the shot creating nice blurred background which allows the text to settle subtley on the page. I won't imitate the way in which the editor used focus but I will experiment with it in hopes to create some type of distortion, reflective of the artist's mindstate. The arrangement of the text and different colouring of the text is definitely something I will take in to consideration in my contents page and it will probably be similar or contain aspects of the one above.