Improvements on front cover

Rachael Lau 12.3

OLD NEWThe first change I have made to my post magazine was adding a gradient on the background. This decision was made on a feedback I had received from my target audience, by changing the background I was able to keep my house style consistent as all my other pages have a gradient as their background.

• The second change I had made was altering the location of the issue number and date of release. I moved them closer to the barcode because from looking back at music magazines, they would usually be seen together. I had also re-sized my barcode because it was too large, which made my magazine seem unrealistic.

• Also I had changed the font of my kicker, the new font is more suitable because it is more bold which helps to attracted the readers attention to my magazine.

Initial improvements

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Further improvements

After studying the design of a K pop magazine front cover I noticed that their masthead took up a lot more space than I did in my initial design therefore I stretched the masthead and added a stroke so that when the readers look at my magazine from afar they would still be able to recognise my magazine.

Another change I made was adding a banner to the K pop band name “SHINee”. This was inspired by the K pop cover I had researched, I decided to use a similar design because it has proved to be successful as an existing K pop magazine uses this kind of design and layout.

I have changed location of skyline, because it was more suitable for it to be on top of the masthead. By adding a skyline, it can help attract my target audience into reading my magazine.

Further improvements

After reflecting on my own magazine and the ones that I had researched I noticed that my magazine didn’t resemble real ones because my magazine layout was not suitable and that there were nothing to attract the audience’s attention because all my font sizes were too similar. Also the colour of certain text were difficult to read.Therefore, the changes I have made to my magazine were changing my font from “Arial” to “Minion Pro”. I decided to alter the font because it was too dull to look at and lacked a variety of font types which limited my design. The new font choice allowed my magazine to resemble the K pop magazine that I had researched and inspired my design the best. Further more, I resized my strap lines and added different font types such as “italics” and “bold” in a certain places to attract the audience’s attention and make my magazine look more interesting. By adding a puff, I was able to enhance my design and layout of the page which helped to engage the reader, also I made the puff similar to the K pop magazine I have research because this type of layout proved to be successful on the market. From the feedback I have received from my target audience they have said that the list of songs on the right hand side was hard to read. As a result, I changed the colour to white so that it would contrast with the background allowing it to be readable from far and got rid of the numbering as it was unnecessary and made my magazine unprofessional.

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Further improvements

OLD NEWIn order to make my magazine more professional I refined the edges of my image on ‘Photoshop’ using a “blend tool,” so that it would not look pixelated. In the new version on the right it is more smooth and of higher quality which helps to make my magazine more effective.

Plus, I corrected my use of capitals and check my spelling and grammar to ensure that my magazine is accurate. These little mistakes could affect my magazine greatly because they would stand out to the readers therefore using spell check would minimize this problem and allow my magazine to be more successful.

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