Final College Magazine & Contents Page

This is my final college magazine cover and mock-up contents page for my preliminary task

Final Front Cover

Contents Page Mock-Up

As mentioned in my previous blog post, I used Image 6 as the main picture. The font which I used for the masthead is called 'Headline' (which is not featured on my mood board, however is very similar to one or two fonts which I did include) and the feature stories included fonts 'Headline' and 'Helvetica Neue' in light.

I did not edit my main image at all as I wanted to keep with the natural colours and lighting in the photograph and not risk making it look less natural through editing it. I stuck with a colour scheme containing mostly blues, greens and reds with white, black and grey being the main colours used for text. The colour scheme was heavily influenced by the images which I collected and displayed on my mood board and the colour scheme ideas which I drew from that (in the same blog post). However, when working on the final magazine cover I used the colours within my main image by picking them off certain aspects (i.e. blue jeans and red lipstick on subject and green trees in the background) in order to get a colour scheme which worked best with the main image.

I stuck with the mock-up layout of the front cover that I posted on my blog earlier and included almost everything picked out on the conventions analysis so that the front cover contains as much information as possible and is eye-catching to the target audience.

For the contents page mock-up, I also stuck with the contents page layout which I posted on my blog earlier and added a variety of contents, including the ideas for contents which I also drafted in that same blog post. I then added in what images would go where and gave it a title. However, the font which I used for my title I would adapt and change to fit with the front cover if I were to make the actual thing.

Overall, I'm quite pleased with the outcome of my college magazine however, I feel that there are some things which could be improved in order to make it look more professional and realistic, such as a better-looking plug and one or two more font styles.