Contents Page Drafts

These were my first attempts at creating my contents page: The first one (on the right, brown colored background) I never finished because as you can see it is very dark and dull. The photo looked like it was trying to blend into the background but it didn't work which made it looked a bit tacky. I liked how I put the page number and title next to the photo because I felt that it filled up the empty space a bit more. I decided to start again with another photo and background image.

In the second contents page draft it looks much better than my first attempt however I still wasn't happy with it and felt that it looked boring. Even though it wasn't finished before I tried again the contact details at the bottom of the page doesn't look professional and doesn't suit the look I was going for.

February 2016

This is the feedback I have received from my teacher on all the work I have done in the past couple of months: 

Different Magazine Front Covers

This video shows the changes and development of my magazine front covers

Magazine Front Cover

This is my final magazine front cover before I have made any improvements advised through my target audience and teacher: 

Blue Front Cover?

 After making my first two drafts I still was not happy with how the cover looked however I wasn't sure what it was. I went back to editing and decided to try different filters. As soon as I added the first photo my front cover it begin looking better I had to make a few changes such as the headline because it was teal and did not go with the blue filter.

However I did want my model to have such a strong blue effect, I then tried a few more affects and found the one in the second photo and it looked much better and still kept in the conventions of a magazine. What I was unsure about was the lines at the bottom of the photo because I was unsure if it looked professional or not. After I completed some audience research it came to the conclusion instead of looking tacky it looks more unique! 

                                                                                                    

Drafts 1 & 2

These are my first two drafts for my front cover:

Photo Editing

I had a go at editing my photos on pixlr.com, befunky.com and picmonkey.com . I won't necessary be using these edits but they will give me an idea with what works and what doesn't: