Step by Step of My Front Cover

This is the step by step process of what I did to create my cover for my college magazine. It shows what order I put the conventions onto the front cover and the colour and size changes I went through to get the final cover.

To begin with I had to decide on a colour for my masthead that went with my overall colour scheme. I matched it to the clothes the girl in my picture was wearing and as orange is quite a bold, stand out colour, that was my choice.

After adding my initial masthead I had to change the colour and the size of it to make sure it was readable and that it would stand out against the background.

When I was happy with the size and colour of my masthead I moved to do the skyline in a blue colour. I tried to use things that I thought would appeal to a typical student.

As a main convention I had to add the plug as something that would make people want to read the magazine and to make sure it stood out I changed the colours of the main words of the sentence. Another thing I added here was my main feature story which would again hopefully make people want to read the magazine.

The final thing I added to my magazine was the barcode. This would make my cover look like an authentic magazine.