Pre- Production Magazine

In the lesson we were asked to design a magazine cover and contents page to do with anything related to the school. We had A3 paper to design it on, in detail. To do this, we needed to think creatively of a title for our magazines but it had to link it to the school, so I chose "Time To Pretend" as my magazine would be about drama, media and music so the title is well suited for those subjects; simple but creative. For ideas for our magazine covers, we looked at other popular magazine covers which had the same sort of style as those we were thinking of. I looked at NME, Spin and Kerrang magazine, for colours and layout. Here is an example of an NME magazine:

We had to think carefully of what colours and fonts to use as we could only choose a maximum of three colours and three fonts to add onto the cover, including the title. We needed to be careful especially with the fonts used, as they needed to be clear, bold and stand out, so I tried not to have any soft edges, as that would give off a different vibe. The three colours I chose were green, blue and black. When designing it on the paper, I found it hard as I wasn't sure what font I was going to do, and until I had the picture ready, I didn't know which colours would be appropriate to use to suit the model and context of the magazine. We needed to draw a picture on the front for detail, but I thought it was difficult as there was no way of being sure which pose the model would use until we actually took the pictures.