Evaluation

Magazine cover:
My magazine is bold and stands out which is what I wanted but I also think that it is too bright and may deter people from looking at it and reading it. For my music magazine I will need to tone the colours down and make the main image in colour instead of black and white. I will also take more opictures to choose from so I am not restricted to what I can use and edit with. I will also change the style of my writing as it will need to go with the genre of the magazine as I have made the font specific to this magazine.

Magazine Contents Page:
I really like the contents page as it is simple and is bold. It also tells you topics that are in the magazine, however I think that I should include more topics compared to what I have. I also like the idea of having the pictures in a box and a number next the picture of them. As with the magazine cover I am going to make the pictures in colour as well as tone down the red or maybe even change it completely.

Overall:
As a whole it works well the theme of black, white and red was effective as it gave it a theme throughout the pages and that I liked. The style of the font and the colours I used for the font was effective as it linked well with the genre of the magazine and made it more appealing to the audience. I also liked the layout of the pages and the styling of the magazine generally. I will use a similar type of design for my music magazine but will change some key features to improve it and make it better.

Finished Cover and Contents

Magazine Cover

Magazine Contents Page

Inspiration

Colour scheme:
I have picked three colours as this is what the most popular magazines use. I have decided to use black and white as well as red is to be shown as a popular colours on any type of magazine. By only having three colours it also keeps the page simple and eye catching. 

Pictures:
All of my pictures are of my friends and they show different types of emotions that will link to the topics that I am covering in my preliminary music magazine. I wil also make the pictures black and white with a red background as this allows the colours of the magazine to stand out on the page. I have also used the idea of books and folders to link it back to the school theme. 

Layouts:
I have gathered ideas for layouts from Q and NME- music magazines- and linked them together and also changed them around so they would appear to be totally different to the magazines which I gained my ideas from.

The NME magazine cover was full of words and pictures to show what was in that issue, but i found that although it was packed with news about different artists the front of the magazine was too busy so I knew that my magazine cover would have to be less busy and more simple.

The front of Q magazine is more how I would expect a magazine to appear, busy but not overly busy. It would mean that more people are likely to look at this editipon and it is also more asthetically pleasing. The three colour scheme also works on this cover but not on NMe as that includes too much colour. The picture in the middle of the page is simple yet effective it shows of the simplicity of the photo but the editing ont the picture adds a level of finesse to the picture and the magazine cover as whole.  

The contents page is simple and easy to understand. I really like the idea of the boxes and the numbers inside the boxes and the simple headings to show a new topic to the reader. The idea as a whole is something that I would like to use on my magazine contents.

Photos for the School magazine

School magazine cover

 The first picture that i have edited is intended for the background of the main cover. I have cut out the background and then removed the colour an then played around with the contrast until i got an image i liked.

The finished picture

This is for the contents of the School magazine I am going to have the same person but with different poses so that it keeps with the same theme of black and white imagery and of the same person. I will incorprate a colour but that is yet to be decided as it will depend on how the finished product looks.

The finished picture for the main picture of the contents page