When creating a magazine, you need to make sure that you apply the genres conventions to your own so you can appeal to your target audience. This will help it appeal to the uses and gratifications theory of entertainment, information, social interaction and personal identity. You also need to make sure that your cover will work alongside the AIDA process in order for your audience to gain interest in your magazine. I believe I have had some success with this however I do believe I have room to improve. In order to improve in future, I have created a to do list of five targets that could help my cover better.
- When shooting your photos make sure you’re on the right camera setting in order to get the cleanest base image possible.
- Make sure that the colour scheme used is consistent as the orange at the bottom looks somewhat out of place among the rest of the cover.
- Try to experiment slightly more with the Masthead and cover lines colour as it can come across as slightly off.
- Feel free to take time playing around with photoshop in order to find something that works incredibly well. The main cover star seems slightly out of place in the image.
- Try to create or find a more interesting background that compliments both the text, but also the main cover stars image.