Main Front Cover and Contents page

This is my finished magazine cover and contents page , I think that the process in making them were hard as there was a lot i needed to consider .How i took the images , colours i needed to use , fonts , articles etc, The drafting process was the easiest i just needed to get the colours right and the fonts and styles i wanted , then i moved on to the magazine cover itself , i went with the feedback i got on the questionnaire i handed out , with those answers i made the front cover , there was problems when making it , the words were too big so they stuck out of the lines and when i made it smaller you wasn't able to see it ,

                                                                    The text had to be the right colour so you could see it over the blue .The things that went well was that the colour scheme was good it went with the school theme and stands out , The image that i chose for the front cover is very happy and inviting , i think the magazine front cover was a good start from my preliminary task , obviously there is areas that i need to think through for the main task .

The contents page was tricky i didn't really have any images that went with the articles and when i found some it was hard to fit them in which is why i only have three , i stuck with the same sort of colour scheme but switched it around making the dark blue at the top and light blue at the bottom .

The contents paoge i think was the hardest as its hard to get a layout that looks good , but i tried my best to make it look as good as possible .

The errors i came across when doing the magazine and contents was making the colours look exactly the same and finding images that fit .

All in all i think my magazine went well .

contents page research and mock magazine cover

I looked through a lot of school magazine and normal magazine contents pages, some of them seem adventurous and so seem boring . In order for the the magazine to stand out i need a good front cover and contents page , i need to get the right balanced between interesting but not too over the top so it crowds the page .
In my mock magazine cover i used bright blue colours to symbolise school colours , even though its a magazine for 6th form i thought it would be fitting to have school colours for the front cover and the contents page .

For the front cover mock-up i used mostly blue and white , the reason for this is because the white stood out from the dark blue background and the light blue background made the dark blue masthead stand out , i put the main articles on the front , the ones that would grab more attention , this picture would obviously be in the middle and the text would be on top of it , but you Will still be able to see the blue it will be kind of like a border .I think the blue connotes to the school , its a simple colour but stands out more than anything .

With the contents page i decided to keep the blue vibe going , but this time only used white text , i know the contents page is supposed to be as good as the front cover , if anything better . So that's why I'm going to but more images in to make it a bit more interesting because at the moment its very bland and it need something . i decided to kinda manipulate the colour so the bottom of the front cover is a dark blue and the top is a light blue , i swapped it around with the contents page to make the top dark and the bottom light .