This is my first draft. I went for blues and whites as I felt they are relaxing colours. As my audience are teenagers who have just finished school and contemplating coming to college, they would be stressed with trying to work out what courses to take and what college to go to. By using blue, it almost soothes the stress and it doesn’t make them worry so much.
For my contents page, I used the same colours as I want my magazine to have the same style throughout – I want it to have a synergistic feel. I kept this draft pretty basic, as my first draft, so that I could add and develop it on the other drafts and final copies.
This is my second draft. Just as I have experimented with a various choice of colours, I have also used 3 different cover images. This is because I felt more comfortable knowing that I had given myself a choice and had a range to choose from. The reason I worked with greens and browns was simple because they went well with the cover image. However this is my least favourite draft, as I feel the colours are too drab and will not stand out to my audience.
The thing I like most about this contents page is the crossing over of the rectangles in the corner. I like how they form to make another colour. Again, I used the same colours as on the front cover as I want it to be the same style through. I still don’t like the draft for this as I know it won’t attract an audience – it is too boring and dull.
This is my third and final draft and is my favourite of all three. I will use this as my final cover, although I will be adding cover stories. I used the colours I have as I thought they went well with the image (with what she was wearing; and also with the setting she is in). I am aware that as I have chosen to work with pinks and purples, and my cover image is a girl, it may seem like the intended audience is just female.
I like this contents page as I know it will stand out to the audience due to the cold colours. There isn’t much difference to the layout of all three drafts of my magazine.
