Preliminary Task

Preliminary Cover and Context Page Evaluation

The design for this cover and context page was based on two flat plans that I designed originally. It uses basic skills that I already know of however, I think that the cover doesn’t look as professional because I currently don’t have the skills to make the cover to professional standards. It looks very childlike with the colour scheme, so there for, for my actual media project I will look into the colour schemes that other professional music magazines use. So that I can incorporate a similar colour scheme into my own project. Also what the preliminary cover has shown me is the need to pick a suitable title font because that sets the type of magazine I am trying to create. What I think I did well in the first task is that I think the layout of the magazine was good but I could improve it by adding more information onto the cover as it looked quite plain. Also the images I used I took with my phone which lowered the quality of the images. So therefor I will learn how to use a professional camera to take the photos for my actual media project to raise the quality of my main project.

The context page is quite basic and uses a lot of fonts which make it look over crowded and unprofessional. For my main piece I will not use more than 3 fonts in order to keep it looking professional and not overcrowded.

Flat plan of front cover of Magazine

Flat plan of context page for magazine.

The mock of the Preliminary Cover.