8 February 2010
Main Task - Front Cover Second Draft
Along with the CD Cover, I managed to update my front cover to develop a second draft. I have moved around only a few pieces and / or changed some of them. For instance, I have reduced the size of the "Get your next issue FREE" feature, and moved it, along with rotating it. I have also taken off the price feature as this made the cover look too messy, and simply placed it above the title to make it less messy. I have moved the barcode up and reduced the size slightly, as it is not normally in many magazines right on the edge. Finally, I have inserted the finished single CD cover "Get Away", placing the border behind "Vikki Rose" and the cover slightly over it, which I feel is quite effective as it looks like an extra on the page for you to reach out and grab. However, I need criticism or comments, so please do so:
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I think the CD cover really does make the magazine look more like a music magazine, which is obviously good. I also like that there's only one circle thing now, since before I found having two to be off-putting.
A coupla things though: firstly the "Win Your iPod" thing would be better if it said "Win an iPod", since I doubt a competition where one can win an iPod which is already theirs would be too popular. And don't try to use the argument that the iPod will be yours, since that would be a stupid thing to say. My second thought is that the "Vikki Rose" text looks a bit weird in that it goes under the album cover but over the frame. It's not a big problem, just something that I personally find irritating.
Hope you'll find my suggestions useful! :)
Whoops, I just noticed something else. You should make the text "Snow Patrol" red, to continue the red-white-red-white band name colour scheme you've got going on.
There, I'm definitely done annoying you now. Bye bye.
haha, wicked thanks! well, i'm gonna reply :p First of all it is supposed to be red white red white white considering the bottom two bands include snow/cold words, and also i just think it looks cooler. I also think that putting the frame behind the text and the album cover over looks quite effective, but thats just me, i'll hopefully get some more criticism. I have written "win your ipod" like that because they could win their ipod with my magazine :p i'll bare it in mind though. :)
Oh also i forgot to mention, the reason i placed the album cover over the text is because it looks like it's popping out from the page, as though you can reach in and grab it, which many of us would wish to be able to do :p
Good, I was just bringing up things that you may not have thought of, but since you've given reasons for doing each of those things it's fine. It shows how dedicated you are to your work, and I'm impressed that you put so much consideration into everything! Well done.
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