Stage four of the magazine production: Adding content and the finishing touches to the magazine layout

Front cover:

 This is my final completed front cover for FUSED Magazine. As you can see I have added another rectangle banner at the bottom of the publication with more advertisements about what can be found inside, and also a bar code to the bottom right of my front cover, to emphasise on the professionalism of my magazine. I have also added the date and price to the top right hand side of my magazine.
Although I like the outcome of my magazine, if I could go back I would change the colour scheme and make it more corresponding - I think the colours of the arrows (as they are in mainly primary colours) go outside the colour scheme of blues and greys and make the layout look more simple, and somehow plainer. However, this might not be a negative thing, as if the arrows were more corresponding with the rest of the layout, they may not have stood out as well as they do, and detract from the boldness and striking appeal of the band fronting the magazine.
To improve my magazine I would have also made The Weak(end) Arrow’s title smaller in size, in order to create more room around the sides of this to include more information on inside articles, as I do not feel there is enough information on the front cover about what can be found inside. 

Contents Page:

  This is the final contents page for FUSED Magazine. As you can see, I added all the content such as adding the article titles into the index bar on the right hand side of the page, and the page numbers next to them.
I also added a small introduction for my magazine, which is just a summary or a welcome into the new edition, and mentions a few articles that can be found in the magazine.
Generally I was very pleased with the outcome of my contents page, although to improve it I think I could have included something in the right hand top corner, as that corner looks quite empty and plain. I would've also changed the colour of the main heading which contains the logo and the 'Contents' title, in order to create some variety between the index bar and header.

Double page spread:

This is the finished double page spread. I have added the actual interview content onto the opaque content boxes that I made earlier in the production and like the effect. To distinguish between the interviewer and the responses of the band I set the font colour as burgandy for the interviewer, and kept the responses made by the band as black. In the end, in order to squeeze the text in I had to cut out a lot of the interview, and only select and include what I thought to be the most important information/the information that best reflects the indie-rock and what the band would have wanted to portray.
I generally like the appearence of my double page spread, although in some places I think the text does become quite cramped and messy, which if I were to redo, I would improve by making it neater, and less clashing.