Front cover
Colour usage: For my front cover i will mainly chose colours that would link in with my image. The colours in the image fit in with my style of magazine, The main colours will be dark red, dark purple and bright pink. I will chose the bright pink to brighten up my front cover and also add contrast. I am to use a simlair colour scheme of dark red, dark purple and bright pink throught out my full magazine. I think using these three colours will be effective and add the retro style i want to my magazine. This will add a professional and consistent look to my magazine.
Image useage: The only image I plan to use on my magazine is my main image. This will be a medium shot with a eyeline match. My image will be in colour. I want the audience to notice this first and focus mainly on this.
Text usage: I will use the text to capture the reader’s attention
when the magazine is placed on the shelf. I will use buzz words like ‘NEW’ and punctuation ‘!’
to grab attention immediately. The text will let the reader know what magazine
it is and what articles will be featured inside. These need to be exaggerated
in order for the reader to pick up the magazine and buy it. My sell lines will
show what can be found inside and I will use a pull quote from my main image to
introduce my double page spread. I will not add too much text as I do not want
this to detract away from my main image. I want my main sell line to stand out alot more than the smaller sell lines. In my final piece you can see how this all works. I will make sure i have the important information like the date and price and barcode all on my front cover.
Layout: My main layout of my magazine will be quite spacious but this gave the front cover the style i wanted. I postioned my main image to the left side with the masthead in the top left corner. My main sell line will be postioned in the bottom left corner in a very large text next to the main image. I will made sure there wasnt to many sell lines and also made sure it didnt look over crowed with information.
Contents and Double Page Spread
Colour usage: My colour scheme for my contents and dps both linked in my main image once again. The dark red, dark durple and pink stayed in use. For this i will use black for my font, as it was simple looked good and stood out on the white background. I will keep the colours the same to keep the professional and consistent look to my product.
Image usage: I will use four images on my magazine. I willl use these instead of page numbers. I plan to keep the main image bigger than the others as this was the image linked in with the front cover. Using images made my magazine look alot more effective rather than boring text.
Text usage: My text will hopefully be quite limited. I dont want the readers to get bored of reading my information i so plan to keep this to as little as possiable. Obviously i will have the page numbers and information about the pages and the main text on the dps.
Layout: The layout for my dps will hopefully be a big main image on one side with the page title and and main texts on the other side. For my contents page I want the four images with the limited texd postioned around it.
