Preliminary Task

This is my front cover of the  magazine for my prelim task. First of all i took a picture which i then edited in photoshop. I cut around the image so that the background will be deleted, leaving me with the image that i wanted. I then used in design so that  I could develop my front cover.

I created a new page and then  imported the image. I added the name of the magazine and the blue background colour and then inserted other text that i wanted on the page. I made some of the text boxes a different shade of blue and then i made them slightly transparent so that it made the front cover look more authentic. I also added the minor details such as the date at the top and then a barcode at the bottom of the page.

I think that when i do my music magazine front cover i would need to get all the minor details as well as all the major ones because it needs to look as real as possible. I think that it should also have a clear title as well as the magazine name in big text.  The image for the front cover should probably be similar to the one that i have used for this one. I think that it should dominate the front cover and then have the text going around it. I think that it is important that the front cover is not too congested and that it is simple but effective making what you want the reader to look at the attention grabber. 

This is the mock up of my contents page. It has the name of the magazine in the top corner with the words contents at the top. Each image that is displayed on the page shows a page number so that they are easily to find and it also has text explaining what each image is about. Also the featured articles have a brief explanation with a sentence summing it up and then a page number. Everything is spread out so that it isn't clustered and confusing for the reader which can be off putting for reading the rest if the magazine.  Everything that was written on the front page as a feature is included with the brief explanation underneath it. It is important that the contents page is good because otherwise the reader might not want to read it and then the amount of people reading it will decrease.