Method

 For the start of creating this magazine I had a look at various different other film magazines to get an idea for what I wanted to create, I settle with a directors magazine as a more niche version of a film magazine because I didn't want to recreate other magazine that already exist and I had some ideas already that went with my directors magazine. Initially I started by creating the masthead in illustrator using the pen tool. Had the thought of going for the name 'direct' from the start and with experimentation added the clapper as the letter C because I felt it made that very obvious Link then to the magazine itself and didn't look out of place at all. After landing on a design I liked I then moved that design into adobe indesign to create the main layout of my magazine. I started by creating the bones of the front cover adding the text and the masthead to get an idea of where my images would go when I had taken them. After this I moved onto doing this for all of my pages, the contents page, second front cover and the second contents page. once I had a very clear idea on how I was going to lay it all out, taking inspiration from other already existing covers to get a professional look to the magazine and see it as something that could exist on the shelves and not something made by a student. after I had completed this I then moved onto taking the pictures for my magazines, I had already created a plan for the kind of images I wanted to take so it was just getting the people into the studio for the photoshoot, it helped creating a plan for these images that I could follow so I didn't have to come up with them there and then. once I had the photos I need I put them Into Lightroom to make sure they were perfect and the right brightness and exposure I had envisioned. Once this was complete it was just finishing up final touches that needed completing, for example the addition of a barcode, the Bauer logo to showcase where this magazine has come from, a price and the date.

When moving onto the website side of my magazine it all fell fairly easily, using the wix presets I took an already existing template and added my aspects into it, adding my direct logo at the top to have that exclusive link between the two media sources.