Analysis of final contents page

As I wasn’t really satisfied with my first contents page that I had made, I decided to exploit the graphical world. Its very vast and wasn’t easy to decide on which concept I wanted to go with. I was contemplating on whether to use a totally different background color, or to use one of the colors on the front cover. I decided to play safe and go with the ‘pink’ shade, like a little of the writing on the front cover.

I then chose this abstract strip of color, as it looks really funky and thought that the pictures of the artists would look good in form of circles, forming the strip.

The writing is written in navy blue and white, still using colors from the front cover, I thought it would look more attractive rather than introducing a totally new color as ‘pink’, ‘navy blue’ ‘orange’ and ‘white’ are already in the front cover. In order to maintain the ‘funky-pop’ vibe, I decided to have font a little funky and sharp. The title is ‘old English’, bringing about a sense of variety and making it contrasting and vibrant.

Here again, I tried to play about with the conventions of a typical music magazine. As my genre is ‘funky pop’ one would expect it to be wild on, and crazy. I’ve provided to a totally different side of ‘funky pop’, my images are well placed in an organized manner and my writing is right aligned.

Final Contents page

Analysis on first draft of contents page

This contents page was initially going to be the final contents page. As I observed the page, each day during our Media lesson I found that it’s rather distracting and looks more like a student’s magazine. I also got a few school mates to give me their frank opinions on the contents page. They all though that the colors are loud, especially the sunny yellow box with red and navy blue writing in it- they thought it was rather blinding. Some also said that it looks immature for a Media student, although they like the font of the ‘Inside BLAST BLAST BLAST’.

Having thought over the feed back that I got, I decided to completely amend my contents page as It looked no where near the genre ‘funky-pop’.

I agree, I am at fault and I should have thought about this a while ago and worked it out in my plan. Well, I guess the more we are exposed to different types of software like PSD, the more we are able to explore it and therefore we are able to think out of the box rather than incorporate the standard ideas into our work.

It was late, but I did do some extra research on different types of backgrounds. I went through books of graphic designing and magazines too, and got fascinated.

First draft of contents page

Final Front Cover Analysis

My final front cover is practically similar to the first draft. The only difference is that I added more text to it. It makes it look a little more busy and appealing. I would say that my magazine has a good balance of text and image

Final Front Cover

Analysis of the first draft of my front cover

On my main cover, I thought of using bright and attractive colors in order for it to stand out. I really liked the picture of the girl that I took, as the background colors were contrasting with the red hair on model/artist. I thought about playing with the conventions of a magazine, and thus I decided not to incorporate too many text boxes on the front cover, I wanted the picture to stand out. also, not all magazines have the barcodes on the front cover, and so I decided to eliminate that.

To make it a little more eye catching and ‘funky-pop’ sort, I decided to use colors that would go well with the outer navy blue part of the background. The fluorescent pink writing with a hint of white adds to a sense of ‘funky-pop’ and also works well with the font. Whereas the orange outlined title ‘BLAST’ is also appealing. As the title is orange, I thought of using more orange and thus I colored the strap line orange with navy blue writing in it, in order to stick to the conventions of colors.