Flat Pans.

I chose to put the image in the centre of my flat plan as i thought it would get the attention of my target audience. I tried to keep my design simple as I wanted it to be enticing but clear and obvious of what the main focus of the magazine is.I have left a larger section of space at the bottom of my page so the page will not seem top heavy. For the design of my contents page I put one image and surrounded it with text to make it look busy and full of information. I made the mast head on my contents page the same large size as on my cover as I think it is important to have a running design throughout my magazine.I will incorporate these ideas into my final design.

Contents Page

I like my final contents page as I think the way the text bleeds into the box of black colouring keeps a theme running through from my front cover. I chose black and white as the only text colours as there would be a picture in the main image box which would then be the only colour and this would attract attention and highlight the main articles of my magazine. I chose to have a lot of text on my contents page as I wanted the page to look busy to reflect the magazine.

Finished Magazine Cover

Evaluation of cover.

This is my final design for my front cover. It is almost identical to my brief design I did before only consisting of slight differences. I choose the title 'comic' for my masthead as I thought it was a simple but effective pun style name for my magazine. I decided that the green I used was the most appropriate for my magazine as it is a mutual colour that both boys and girls like. I edited both the subheadings and the main flash in white as it was the most suitable colour against the water image in the background. I included both a border and a block of black colouring under my masthead to help increase the predominance of the magazine name.

I like my cover as i think it is good for students witch was my aim.

If I was to edit it in any way I would have maybe

re-taken my photo in a higher resolution.

Cover Editing.

With this first image I wanted to create a contrasting effect with this layout using the different shades of grey, but I dont think it would catch anybody's attention so I am going to try againwith some different colours.

I also tried this second layout with the sepia tones taken out of the image with more text I think this would be a good layout but I still want to encoupourate more colour in to it.

My third image , I like because the colour is mutual witch will be suitable for boys ands girls.The photo is ideal in presance and position and the text can be easaly read. In this image I have created a block of black colouring to bleed my masthead into the layout. I designed my masthead by elongating the letters as I think this makes it look more trendy which is ideal for my target audience.