Lauren Crick Advanced Portfolio

I decided that I was going to do a draft contents page as doing the draft front cover helped me decide what I want my final covers to look like. I also believe that this has done the same and has allowed me to pick out what I think looks good and what I think doesn't look as good. The things that I like about this contents page- I love how the colour of the page number has a colour from the photo, I think this works really well with each other and makes them stand out and look really good against the photos. I also really like how I have changed the sizes of the boxes to make it seem more quirky and have more style- I think this incises the audience as because it isn't boring and makes people want to read it.  The font that I have used for my word "Contents" is in the same front of my magazine cover on the word that it says "Devon" I feel like it creates a continuous theme so that the audience feels as if its all matching and all within the sam...

I decided that I needed to do a mock up from cover so that I am not going into doing my final piece without any practice. I really enjoyed making this as it made me decide that I wanted to make a Christmas edition for my magazine.   I am using these colours for my final piece because I think that they bring out the Christmas theme, as red,green and white is all Christmas tones and colours you would relate to the festive season. I took the images at Saltrum house and this is one of the images that I took.I changed the colours of the background to make them a little dimmer as they were very bright and they drowned out the writing too much. After doing this I felt much more confident to be able to produce a good standard of work for my final piece. 

I made this Draft front cover to try and get a feel for Photoshop again- I took inspiration from this magazine on down below and I can see that I need to improve some stuff as it does need improvement with changing the sub heading fonts but as a first go at doing this I think I did well. Some elements that I would improve are- The colour pallet, I do not think this would look good on the front of a magazine as I think the colours are too bright. As we can see the colours on the right are very cool toned. In my final magazine I would include more subheadings as the cover looks a little bear and would need to have more on the front to entice customers into buying it.  I would change the puff as well as I think it may be too big for a front cover- I would probably change the colour of it also.  Some elements that I like and would use in my final magazine- I really like my logo, I am going to keep this and use it or my final magazine. I also really like th...