Magazine Front Cover

This is the final product of my preliminary task, I looked at my drafts and took the best ideas and added more conventions of a magazines to them.

I chose to call my magazine "Explosive" as I mentioned previously I thought that it would be aimed more towards my target audience, however I did remove the explanation mark as I thought that it made it look less professional. With my magazine being centred around chemistry I thought having a name inclined more towards that was more appropriate. Also the word sounds dramatic and attracts attention, using the red background gives the image of danger and urgency. The font I used looks like there's flames coming off the words I chose this because I thought that it would work well with the name of my masthead. The strap-line underneath my masthead "Feel The Force" I used a smaller font size so that it didn't draw much attention away from the mast-head. I used the words "Feel The Force" because of an explosion there's a immense amount of force also in the physics sense kinetic energy is classed as a force.

The photo dominates the magazine and is the main feature, this image was taken because I wanted it to relate to my audience (college students) so therefore I took the image of a college student in a lab during an experiment. I then used photoshop to manipulate my image, I did this in several ways; I brightened the colour so that it would stand out more, I also gave the bottom part of my magazine a green tint I thought that this would give my magazine more of a toxic look plus it represents the oil consuming the magazine.

My main headline "A Crude Demise" is a big font size, not quite as large as my mast-head this is so that it stands out and is one of the first things read by the audience. The phrase itself is a play on words which students who do science will be aware of. My sub-heading "Explosive Investigates The properties Of Oil And It's Threat Level To Students Of Wyke" this elaborates onto my main headline giving the audience some more information about what the magazine contains and its relation to the students of Wyke. I kept the colour scheme constant throughout my magazine (red, White and black).

I added several other things to my magazine due to them being conventions and required for my task. These are such items as; the date and issue of publication and a bar code i did this because all magazines have these.

However I did forget to include a price onto my magazine, I also think that I should have moved my barcode because I think it stands out too much. Looking back on it I think i may have been able to do a better job with putting the images together as I had never used photoshop before and I took awhile getting the hang of it.

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Drafts...

These images are my original drafts, i experimented on the text style i wanted until i finally found one that i thought worked well with the presentation of the magazine. I decided on the main image for my magazine and incorperated all of my other ideas into it, i also decided on what kind of layout i wanted.