Plan for front cover

This is the plan that I made for my front cover before we started doing anything on photoshop. I think planning helped in terms of where to place things, and thinks such as where the barcode is, the title of the magazine and the band logo are still roughly in the same places. but my completed front cover looks a lot different from my original plan.

prezi evaluation

http://prezi.com/ojyeqajq5kan/magazine-evaluation/ this is my evaluation of Movement.

Contents for school magazine

This is my contents page I found recently for my school magazine that I made back in February. As you can tell I wasn't at all good at photoshop and tried to keep things basic.

This is my completed contents page. This is where I developed my house style of red text on black background. The main feature for this page is The Valaitis Brothers. I had to change the contents page a few times because it didn't look right, and everything's been moved around at least twice. I wanted it to look quite simplistic because I think it's more effective and stands out better that way.The colour scheme was inspired a bit by Q Magazine. I thought that red black and white stood out well and made it look more interesting. I also thought that it fit in well with being in a rock magazine. Q Magazine's contents pages are also quite simplistic, and I thought that also appealed to a rock magazine. 

 

Front cover

This is my completed front cover. I went back and changed the house style and made it more simple because it didn't look right before, I had too many colours and different fonts. Original colours that I had on the front were: Red, yellow, black, and white. It was recommended that we only used two or three, so I went back and changed that. With the exception of the band's logo, I only used red and black.

This new house style of the red on black began when I was making my contents page. I started to use that as my house style, and when I went back and looked at my front cover, I realised they didn't look like the same magazine, so I changed the house style of the front cover. The reason I used red on black is because I think it stands out, and it also lets the read know that the magazine is a rock magazine. The font I used is called Impact, and I used this font for most of the text. I think Impact stands out really well and looks good on a magazine.

I only used one image on the front of my cover because I noticed when looking at "Kerrang!" magazine that they tended to use one main big image (occassionally with a small one at the side) and then just had lots of text around it. I chose the image I used because my target audience is quite young, and I think it would appeal to a lot of young teens to have a fun and outgoing looking band on the front of their magazine.