draft evaluation

Cover - For my cover i used a three colour pallet of black, white and a touch of yellow for the main cover line. the reason i went with the black and white look is that i feel that it gives a more clean and sharp look to the page. What i like about this cover is the model, I think he did well to match the look i was going for. However i feel the photo i chose could have been better. I'm not sure if the photo off of my double page spread would have looked better as it would fill the page and allow for the yellow writing to stand out more than it does. One thing I think can be kept for my final cover is the font as I find that it works well with the genre and type of magazine. My research helped a lot for this cover as it is minimal and the look couldn't have been pulled off without the research of existing minimal covers that i did. Also another thing i will do next time is include more outfits in my photo shoot so there are more pictures for me to choose from for the cover and other pages.

Contents - The contents is what i feel is the weakest part of my draft work as it just doesn't look real. I like the layout, image and so on but think i could have done a better job with the Features i listed and also i would like to add a caption to the image showing what he is wearing. This is because my magazine is Vibe meets Men's Fashion and the reader would be looking for that as well as the music. Another thing i would change is the text at the top, I'm not sure how but it seems a bit small in comparison to the rest of the page. The research i did in order to find this idea was not utilised as much as it should have been, this is a case where i think if I had used the research my contents would be a lot stronger than it currently is.

Double page spread - My DPS is something i am also quite happy with. The picture is my favorite part of the spread as it is very basic and allows for the focus to be elsewhere whilst still being very effective. The colours i have used are black, white and burgundy which work well together. Even though i think they worked well on the DPS i think i should have made the colour run throughout. Also for the text i think i need to research more into the actual content of the text as I did not have enough to fill the page without making my font bigger which ruins the look of the page. Also having an image that takes up half of the spread is very important for me as it makes it so that the page isn't dominated by loads of text and the reader can feel comfortable reading it. Another thing i did to stop the text dominating is include a pull quote which allows for a break in the page making it look less crammed. Next time I would like to have more page numbers and a drop letter at the start to make it look more professional.