magazine cover

Reflection

              For our first project, we designed a magazine cover.  We had to decide what we wanted to be on a magazine for and who are target audience would be.  We also needed to decide how we would design the cover; how our picture would be positioned, what would be on the magazine and how that would be positioned.  Then we had to come up with at least 3 headlines to go on the magazine, one of which had to be about us.  Once we decided on what magazine we would be on we had to put the logo on the cover and we also needed a barcode.  

               My magazine cover is a theater magazine called "American Theatre".  I found a picture of a stage with lights shining on it.  I scaled my picture down so that it looked like I was on the stage.  Then I used both an inner and outer glow that matched the lights on the stage, so it looked like the lights were actually shining on me.  For the magazine logo I put an outer glow around it.  Once I typed the headlines onto the magazine I changed the font of the words and used blending options to make them stand out more.  The last thing I had to do was the barcode, I had to scale it down and then I put it in the bottom left hand corner.  

                  Through this magazine I was trying to capture the interest of my target audience.  In order to do this I used a lot of color.  The stage background that I used was full of different colors.  Since I used both an inner and outer glow on myself my image is very bright, which draws the eye to it.  All of the headlines are colorful and have some sort of blending effect to make them stand out.  Finally the title has a very prominent glow surrounding it so that it stands out amongst many other magazine covers.

                   I feel that my finished artwork is successful.  The reasons I feel this way are that the images I selected were always related in some way to the communication objective I was trying to get across.  I used blending options for everything on my magazine cover other than the stage background and the barcode.  There were multiple layers to my cover and I had to use the magnetic lasso tool to cut out my image.  I also used the magic wand to cut out the magazine logo.  The other thing I had to do was scale a few of the images so they worked well with the other images used.