Front Cover Second Draft

1st Draft 


























2nd Draft:

After handing in the first draft of my magazine's front cover, I received some feedback from my teacher on how I can improve the page. These improvements included;

• Adding more additional information to the page, in the form of subheads, straplines etc. This information needed also needed to include lots of information which concerned Sunderland in some form. I did add some subheads on the right hand side of my page, detailing some of the Sunderland-related features within the magazine. 
• Another improvement that was required was to rethink the placement of the barcode and essential information, as they seemed to give the page an unprofessional look being placed in the positions they were in. I changed this by resizing the barcode so that it did not take up too much space within the page. I did have the option to remove my barcode and place it on the back of the magazine, however I wanted to keep the barcode on the front cover as I feel it makes my front cover seem more real and believable. I also resized the essential information and placed it just above my barcode so that it too did not take up an unnecessarily large amount of text within the page. 
• I was also asked to resize the dominant image so that there was less blank space at the bottom of the page where the model's neck is. By resizing the image, I have gotten rid of this blank space as well as ensuring the reader's full concentration will be on the main part of the image which is the model's face/background image. 
• Another change which was suggested and that I made was to rethink the font style and size within the page. One of the fonts I had used for the main subhead was a generic, italic Photoshop font, this looked dull and lacked a cutting-edge feel therefore I replaced the font with a laid-over font from Dafont. This looked more visually interesting and gave the page a more vibrant look.