Preliminary: Front Cover Evaluation

Preliminary Task: Front Cover Evaluation

For my front cover, although fairly satisfied with it there are a few improvements that i could make to it that would make it more like a magazine cover that are used by real magazines like NME, Blender and Vibe.

1. Layout

    Although the boxes behind the text are translusent and you can see the model behind them, I feel that the boxes should either not touch the model so you can see the image clearly or just not be there at all. It depends on which one looks better. Personally I think that it would look better without the boxes but the colour of the text would have to be a different colour so that it stands out from the models shirt.

2. Text

     The size of the text used are quite similar and to use them correctly like other magazines do my Masthead would be the size it is as well as the cover line but the text explaining the story should be in a smaller text so it takes up less space and this would allow me to add more things to the front page.

3. Cover lines

     To bring more of a Magazine cover feel to it there needs to be more story titles on the front cover and not just the one. This would fill up the empty space that is on the right side of my cover and make it look more complete as it looks like something is missing from the right side.

4. Colour Scheme

   For my magazine cover I feel like i have used to many colours and some of these colours clash so I need a smaller pool of colours to use on my magazine, so three to four colours. the colours selected must stand out from each other so when they are used the text is clearly readable.

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