Layout

I thought that I should explore the options that I have for my front cover. I have done a quick sketch of the possible layouts for the cover. By doing this I can figure out the best layout for me.

Research

I really like the colour scheme in the magazine layout above. The colours tie in well together and made the important parts are bold and an interesting colour to catch the readers eye. 

I have included this front cover on my blog because I feel like this is too crowded and busy for a front cover. Theres too much to look at and I don't want my front cover to look like this. I would like mine to be fairly simple. 

I have noticed that each magazine cover I have looked at. The model is always looking straight at you as if to say '"buy me".

Another interesting thing I have noticed about some magazine covers is that sometimes a part of the title is covered up by an image but I find it interesting how we still know what the title is, I think that this only happens with well known magazine covers. 

This is an example of how I DON'T want my front cover to look. The text on the title is boring. The 'stop cyber bullying' colour is totally the wrong colour it's very hard to read. I feel like the colour scheme for the whole page isn't the right colour for the photograph. 

Fonts

I have just been looking at different types of fonts on dafont.com 

I have basically just picked out the fonts I like the most and what I think are possible title fonts for my magazine cover.

Today we have been learning the difference between serif and sans serif fonts. Basically serif is a font that is 'fancy' for example ^^'abusive pencil' has little ticks on the end where as a sans serif does not. 'Sans' is french for without. I have also leaned about Kerning and leading today. Kerning is just simply the distance between the letters in the word. Leading is the distance between the lines of text in a paragraph. 

QR Code

When we have done our magazine front cover we have all decided on using QR Codes instead of a bar code like normal magazines do. But as we are not selling our magazines we found it pointless and we wanted something that is worth having on there. Using a QR code will enable people scan the code on to their phone and when scanned will take them to my art blog. I thought this was a great idea and very useful!

                   

Title Ideas

For the title of my magazine I wanted to do my title by hand (as  I am an art student) and then scan it on to the computer. Considering that I have done a lot of sewing in my work I am planning on writing my title using thread and I have also pictured in my head the needle still in to title. I think this is a good way of using my own art work in my magazine cover. 

Polaroid In Photoshop

Today we have been using photoshop to make a polaroid looking image. This was just to get us used to using layers in photoshop. First we have the photo of the polaroid and the photo of Luke. We then put it on the same page on photoshop. I then put the photo of Luke over to top of the polaroid but the photo is too big to fit into the square. So to do this I change the opacity to make the image 'see-through'. This is so I can see the polaroid so that I can cut away the sides of the picture. This way when you have cut away the sides the image will fit into the square. I enjoyed doing this as I found it rather easy and I like the end image. 

Pattern Making

During this project we have learnt how to do a repeat pattern. This involved illustrator. We had to split the photograph into quarters using a guideline (horizontally and vertically). We then had to break the photo up. The top left hand quarter of the photo had to be moved to the bottom right. The same with the other parts of the photo(diagonally). Once we had learnt this new skill all we had to do was save it, open a new A4 document went to edit, then fill and then just added the pattern I had created and then the pattern is printed over the whole page.