Evaluation Of My Front Cover

My final magazine front cover has turned out to be successful although I had a few problems, however there is a lot of changes from the design template that I designed. The reason we made those changes was based on the peer assessment of our template, one of the main criticisms of our original design was that there wasnt as much content to create a good front page for a front cover. After taking this into consideration I decided to increase the content of text on the front cover, this would make the magazine more visually appealing but would also make the magazine less cramped. 

In addition to this I also changed the image layout on the page, this is because I wanted my main image as the background, and have 2 images aswell on the front. I had to move certain pictures around to ensure that it didnt cover up the main image and that it should be clear which image is the main image. So instead of having 2 images at the bottom the page, I decided to move them to top the side of the magazine but keeping it a good size so it can still be seen. This turned out to be a success as it resulted in the front cover becoming more professional and less cluttered.

 

 

I then had to decide what the main image could have been of and what text should go alongside it. From my format research I knew that a lot of magazines used text and strap lines that were specific to the school to advertise it, this would appeal to the parents aswell as the students. For this reason I used recent event that had taken place within the school and also used a picture of a students piece of artwork, this is something that would attract the parents as they would see how the school are interested in the students fulfilling their time at the misbourne and thier potential that they could reach.

However the certains parts of our plan  we stuck with from our magazine template was the fact that I had a variety of text on my front cover. My peers suggested that this could be too much, but in my opinion turned out very well and had a good amount  positive feedback. If I were to change something from my front cover, it would of been the actual images used. As I joined the class late, I had to rush a bit and if I had more time, I could have sopent longer analysing what sort of picture I should use as my background. Despite this it did work out and stands out to the reader.