Preliminary Project - Draft 1

This is the first draft of my magazine cover, which shows two students looking through a workbook together. I chose this picture because it looks natural, as if they're not posing for the picture (which they weren't at the time). I caught the picture in the moment, which makes it a bit better then the posed ones. On top of this, the models are within the ages of the target audience, so it's more comforting for the audience to look at it, rather then an intimidating model.

Prior to the first mock-up, the font is darker and the only navy part of the cover is the bar down the side. The font beneath the subtitles had to be darker, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to read the text easily.

The name of the magazine is down the side as it fits the picture nicer than it would have done if the bar had been along the top. If I had put the bar along the top, it would have covered the face of the top model and ruined the whole image.

Overall, I'm not going to use this draft for my project as it doesn't look very professional and the writing is difficult to read; with the different variety of colours in the picture, I struggled with finding a suitable colour to match the theme. The layout of the headings looks a bit sloppy as there's no organisation to it, and this was due to the background colours.