Front cover Final Draft

My front cover has turned out quite different to my mock up. Naturally this happened as my mock up was very rushed and not thought through very well. For this I wanted it to be very bright and welcoming without being too 'pop' looking, to make this more subtle I used ripped brown paper to neutralise against the bright colours. I think the pastel colours look really good against the high contrasted, black and white photograph, and they really compliment each other. The brown paper helped to show continuity through the magazine, but also I used the same fonts and things such as scanned ribbons which I think make the magazine stand out from regular ones. I think having the white background, rather than a brown paper background works much better, it allows the piece to flow together, whereas before everything looked much more 'blocky.' It took me a while to come up with a layout I was happy with but I feel this layout looks good, with the main article being in a larger font allowing it to stand out. I'm also very happy with the masthead I think it suits the overall look of the magazine, and quite obviously fits in. I also think that colouring in the shape on the photograph of jamie, made it all fit together a bit more as it keeps the photo in with the colour theme.