Introduction

For my second draft of my cover page I went for a whole different look than my last as I thought my last cover page just looked to similar to my front cover draft and there was too much color which made it look a little too much especially because a content page has lots of information you want the page to be more simple.

Here is my second draft of my contents page:

What’s New?

• I used a different image that was taken from my most recent shoot.
• I took this image to photoshop to tint and play with the models skin tone to attempt to try and create a lighting affect where the pastel green background reflects on her as if she is actually in that room and the back ground isn’t fake.
• I then cute out the model and the table and plant pot and placed it in InDesign.
• The table was too long on the original photo so the pot plant was cut off the contents page. To fix this I cut out the image and made the table shorter then lined it up against the models arm where one of the legs are. This was the most of the pot plant I could get on the page in the end.
• I then made the pastel background and tried to use some gradients to create a more realist looking ‘wall’.
• I changed the font color to match with the pastel yellowish, greenish theme.

What’s Next?

• I feel like the information under the headlines should be white to match the white text.
• I also feel like there needs to be more structure on the page but not like filled in boxes but maybe and out line around the information might neaten it up a bit.
• I feel like there does need to be something on the page with reggae colors to make it a little more obvious but not too much I might try get the pot of the plant and add some raster color or experiment a little.

Reflection

I think that comparing my new draft to my old one I think I might be going a step in the right direction. It may not be as obvious it was a reggae magazine as it did before but it looks I think a lot more toned down and simple but effective. I was pretty happy about most things on this page but trying to take a step back just to notice that there are some things that do bug me and I do notice now that I might be confusing people with what genre of music this is for as maybe I have tried to stick to this color them too much but I think in a way its different and new.