First Draft (Front Cover)

Magazine Flat Plan and Rationale

This is my magazine front cover for the first draft of my AS Media coursework. This is a vital part of my coursework and it only took me one Media lesson to complete this. Above, is a link to the post which features a flat plan and rationale of my product. When completing this task, I slightly changed the concept of it because, I thought that the product would benefit from more detail to make it look more professional. For example, I decided to feature skyline whilst I was developing the product because, I was looking at other magazine front covers and I thought that a skyline would make my product look more professional. In my opinion, it has. I also decided to feature another cover line because, there was some spare space. I have also used images from the internet. They are; the barcode, the pound sign and the 'red hot chili peppers' logo (at the top right hand of the page). I had to find an image of a pound sign because, I wasn't able to get the pound sign key on the keyboard to work.

I decided to feature the colours of red, grey, black and white because, they are all colours that have been used in real life magazines such as Q and NME (magazines which I have taken inspiration from) I personally think that these colours work well together because, again, it makes the magazine look very professional. The text are different colours because, they stand out more and the target audience will be drawn to the text.

I have also changed the position of the main cover line (star in the making) because, that would have got in the way of the main image.

Overall, I am satisfied with the finished result and it went a lot better than I thought it would. I think it looks very professional and I could picture it on a shelf in a retailer somewhere. The easiest aspects of developing this front cover was inserting the image onto the page. I only had increase the original size of the image. I didn't need to edit the background because, the background colour of a front cover of either Q or NME is normally grey. The hardest aspect of developing this front cover was writing the text in the box. At various points, the box would layer over the text and at other times, the text would stay the same colour as the box even after I had changed the colour. Currently, I am awaiting feedback but I hope that it will be positive.