Front cover ideas & updates.

Over the two lessons today, I have been generated layout designs for my front cover, this is to gain a brief idea of whether my magazine will look right or not. It will also allow me to make sure all key features are on my front cover. I have also been thinking what I want on my front cover and have gathered my first initial photos. I believe with my magazine been a indie magazine then I need to have an upcoming or very well known artist on the front cover with the  main double page spread in order to attract my target audience. I will also need to include what is coming up in the magazine to add some little tasters of what's coming to attract people even more. I have chosen a colour scheme of purple, grey and black, I have chosen this as I think these colours link well to my theme and would work well on a front cover. I have also been thinking how much I will charge for my magazine and I believe a price which worked well and seemed affordable was £2.50. 

Page Layout Update

Over the last two lessons I have been creating possible magazine layouts and anaylising what key features work and don't work.

Colour schemes!

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Colour schemes!

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Fonts

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Fonts

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During this lesson I have been preparing more colour schemes to look at and see which will work best for my magazine. I have also made judgements of the colour schemes on a presentation and will be posted on slide share shortly.

Colour schemes

Colour Schemes

Over the course of this lesson I have been using a website called: www.colorschemedesigner.com. I used this website to generate possible colour schemes I may wish to use for my magazine. I have chosen a selection of colour schemes and added them to a PowerPoint which I will then look through and analyse which colour scheme will suit the magazine best.

Here is a print screen of the website I have been using.

Coursework - Fonts

Over the course of this lesson I have typed up all fonts that I may wish to use. I have also typed them up with my magazines name of 'Beat!' to get a clear view of which font will work best. I have printed the two typed copies off. I will then survey my target audience on which font they are first drawn to and which font suits my name best. And from these I will tally the results and review next lesson in order to gather the font I will be using for my magazine name (masthead). After completing this I will then move on to looking and choosing my colour scheme for my magazine.