Cover annotations

From these cover annotations I have decided I want a minimalistic, uncluttered cover as I feel they look better and draw the audience in more as they wont be over powered by lots of text. 

Contents page annotations

Double Page Spread annotations

 

Preliminary task cover and contents page

This is the front cover and contents page for my preliminary task of creating a school magazine.

 

 

I believe I closely followed the plan I had for my cover, the only difference was that I added more stories as I felt the cover looked bare as there was a lot of blank space. The only thing I don't like about the image for the cover was the quality of it, this is something that I would make sure wasn't carried in to my main task as I feel the quality of the image used is key to making the cover attractive to the audience. I used a black, blue and red colour scheme and carried it through both pages to show continuity between the pages. On the cover I used a range of fonts and sizes in order to make it aesthetically pleasing for the reader.

 

 

I included two images in my contents, as stated on my plan, I feel this had the desired affect as the reader would be drawn towards them and it breaks up the text.  I used four headings on my contents page in order to make it easier for the reader to find what they're looking for.

 

Overall I'm happy with how my preliminary task turned out. I understand there are things I can change and improve, ill make sure I remember these when creating my music magazine, in order not to make the same mistakes twice