contact sheet front cover images

magazine questionaire

front cover draft 2

This is my second front cover draft, this is planned for being taken behind a white background ideally the studio, i think the person will stand out well, and the font colours  red and gold will go well with the white background. Meanwhile I think that the gold colour magazine name goes well with the white background and stands out.The page still looks empty but in due course I will fill in the gaps so the front cover doesnt look to white.
Overall I prefer this one to my first one because I think the rapper will stand out perfectly and so will the font colours chosen. 

Front cover draft 1

This is my plan for my final front cover, the name is going to be Triptunz, this is because it suits my genre perfectly. At this stage I dont know what kind of background colour  I am going to use so I have just used a dark grey to start off with, but this is not a problem because this can be tweaked later.

Basically the man on the left is a rapper, the typical rapper with chains, necklaces just looking down or either at the reader in calm facial expression, the message I want the reader to get is the rapper on the cover is judging them.The cover lines are all aligned on the right side, because I dont want the image on the right covered with text otherwise it gets really confusing. Finally this is the initial plan, of my front cover but I think the plan will be changed over the development stage.

Contents page prelim evaluation

Another preliminary task i did was the contents page, this was just another quick and simple contents page. The contents page had features of the new things in college like the mez, interviews of second year and a article on healthy living. I think these subjects are included on college magazines mainly. The contents page looks like any with numbers on the side, and then the page subject. The contents page doesn't link with the Front cover, except the font designs. otherwise its completely different, but i dont think that a contents page or any other page on the magazine has to link in with front cover or any other page should have relation or have the same theme. so i kept the two different. Again this is simple like the front cover, but i could of done more but i wanted to keep it simple to see what bits look empty.     

evaluation of front cover prelim

Evaluation of Preliminary Task

As I have finished my preliminary task,I have developed my skills in photoshop and also illustrator, I feel more confident using both of the systems.
I think personally both the front cover and contents are far too simple, but I think keeping it simple was a good idea because all the complex aspects I want to add will be used in my final pieces.
The college magazine was aimed at college students as it was a college magazine, it was trying to attract students, after the summer break or after any college break. Because naming all the new features at the college are done after a break. The front cover image was a close image of a person reading a book on a table and then in the background two other students on the computers. 

Overall I think i did a quick job with the front cover, but i have learned some key points in photoshop which i can use in my main task. also keeping it simple helps to see how empty the page looks if not filled, so i can see what gaps occur when its kept to minimal in the final front cover.

DPS analysis 1