There were factors about my preliminary task that I would improve on if I were to go back and do it again. I was a very inexperienced InDesign user and I found it difficult to make a magazine cover and contents page from scratch. As I didn't know my way around the programme I was unaware of a lot of the things that I was able to do with it.
My front cover is relatively plain, my medium close-up picture is placed towards the bottom of the page and looks a bit plain. If I were to change this I would have shaped the picture to make it edgier and so it didn't look as though it was just placed carelessly onto the page.
The typography on my cover is also quite simple. I designed the font for my title and then picked matching fonts for the rest of the text. The colours I chose for the smaller text, which I placed over the top of my image, were bright so they were easier to read however I could have done with making the text slightly larger.
Moreover, I could further improve my cover by adding some colour to the background. It looks too plain and doesn't attract much attention to it, which it should because that is its purpose - to attract an audience. So that my text still stood out I would have added a gradient so that the colour wasn't too distracting from the information I have shown to
What I have done well...
I have followed the task instructions by having a medium shot of a student on my cover, and I have also featured the main things that you would find on a school magazine such as titles and article names on the cover.
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