Final Magazine design

Here is my final magazine cover, having looked closely into the subject of TV Guides, I have tried my best to ensure that my product best fits its conventions. I have emulated the bright house style that most magazine TV guides follow, as well as big bold titles with subtitles underneath and page numbers to allow audiences to find the articles easily. Having used photoshop I was able to do a number of things such as cropping the image, manipulating colours, creating shapes etc. All of which contributing to this final design. To help my piece look professional, I have incorporated an issue number to show that this is an ongoing magazine that has appeared many times before, with the feature this week being based upon my soap opera trailer. I have done this as it would mean that my magazine would already have a loyal fan base, therefore those fans would then see the feature on the trailer, already being a target audience. I have also included the dates that the information inside the TV guide is valid for- one week only. To further this professional look I have added the name of the newspaper this magazine would feature in, again although made up, it would still imply that this paper is a well established company and has a wide fan base. I have added subtitles and smaller feature stories to in keep with magazine conventions, working on the idea that these people are well known to the audience and would interest them also. To create this final look I had to save the cover as a JPEG and flatten the layers to create one final piece with all the layers merged into one.