Front cover draft

As part of my planning i have produced a draft copy of my front cover.
I have decided not to use this because the green font on the lower part of the page blends with the background colour making it difficult to read. The masthead on this draft is also slightly off centre, which puts it out of proportion. I have decided to keep the font on the mastead because dark blue is the colour of the Wyke logo and it also stands out on the white section of the background. I also would like to make the background appear brighter as in this draft it looks dull compard with the level of brightness on the model.
I will be using the masthead on this draft for my final piece as i think it is well suited to the target audience, and dark blue is also the colour of the Wyke logo.  I also cropped the model out from another photograph I had taken using the lasso tool on photoshop and pasted her over this background.

This is a hand drawn draft of my orignal idea for the magazine. I decided not to put my masthead like this because it would take up too much space and make the front cover look over crowded. This draft helped me decide to have a medium shot of one model central on my front cover, as this immdiatly catches the audience's attention because it is a photograph of a young person holding books, which helps the audience establish that it is a college magazine.



These are two shots i took as part of my planning stage. These shots show ideology in that they both portray Wyke college as having a good social atmosphere. I decided not to use these because they are both long shots, and i throught a medium shot looked better on the front cover as it gives a closer view of the model.



This was orginally going to be my final draft for the contents page, however I decided that the pink colour with the outer glow was not easy enough to read, therefore I have decided to change the font colour to red.

This was originally going to be my final front cover, however the model has red eye on it, and also a date needs to be included.