Front cover: research + development

This is my development for my front cover magazine 

Reflection: I believe this was the most time consuming task I ever spent in this whole project even though the end result looked very simple it was quite hard and hard to compile everything in order for it to look cohesive. Even though I enjoyed playing around with different typefaces, elements, and positioning this took such a long time to the point where I took up 2 full class lessons just to fully finish it to my liking and being able to get approval from both my teacher and classmate. 

Problem: The hardest part for me was finding a colour scheme that could match every single element present. I tried using the typical pinks, blues, yellows but it always turns out too be too soft or too bright 

Solution: I decided to just use colours that were already in my image and that worked out to be the best option, even though I had to make my own colour palette using those from the image is so much easier all thats left is to darken or lighten the colour to our liking. 

Starting off with my research I have collected for my front cover this is all that peaked my interest or what I think are good front covers but there are still parts i disliked and tried to avoid. We can see that most front covers uses direct mode of address and they all have a colour scheme that ties everything together, all mastheads have a similar typeface even though its for different brands which is why the typical convention for a fashion magazines are that all typefaces are stylish or even blend in with the background so not all elements of the magazine should be recognisable right away, at least theres a difference in how the main cover line is decided in order for that one part to stand out more than the other cover lines. But again each colour theme for every magazine will be different depending on the season of its production, normally it would use white for the masthead but again it can be different depending on the season. We can also see that most uses left or right aligned for the texts of the magazine but it can be different at times which we can also see from magazine that uses the justified text. 

Step 1: Started of with 2 digitalised drafts with pictures I took during lesson time as I still didn't have my final pictures that I will use for my final magazine

Step 2: This is when I started to make my front cover drafts with my own image 

1. First draft where I decided on all the typefaces and how i want each to be placed on the front cover

2. But again I experimented with different colours for the front cover as it looked too soft in the first draft, this is when I decided to try a darker colour for my cover line

3. Then i tried a darker colour for my masthead 

4. I also tried a different colour combination for my cover line which by making it darker (grey) but keeping my masthead soft 

5. Then I decided to receive advice from my teacher with all the different colour combinations that I came up with and this was the one of the final drafts 

This is also where I changed the typeface for my texts below the cover lines as my teacher had mentioned it all look too stylish together. Another part was also how I combined my models name and the word 'unfiltered' together making it seem like it was her name even though it was supposed to mean a 'unfiltered interview'. This was also the time where I experimented with the colours for my main cover line as the white colour blended too much with the background. 

6. Afterwards I changed the colour to this darker brown colour and even though I liked it my teacher had mentioned it blended too much with the staircase near the model

7. But I still decided to stick with this colour palette as I will follow the typical convention where most texts in fashion magazines follow a stylish typeface and the colours all really blend in together making it harder to read at first this is shown through fashion magazines of HARPERS BAZAAR and VOGUE.

8. I started to finalise my front cover page and this was the final result, I received feedback to change "top 10 anileve best looks" to "top 10 anileve looks". I also changed my masthead in order for it to be more spaced out allowing it t fit the border I made and then I made the texts for my cover lines to be a bit smaller as I wanted to follow the typical convention of having smaller texts on the front cover. I also decided to also make this a november edition magazine as I used warm autumn colours such as browns and reds for the front cover.

Step 4: finalised magazine cover     

Not much has changed on my final cover as I already had it revised with my teacher before, but all I added now was the year my magazine will be published as before I only added the month.