Day 10: Next Week and One.Five

After looking at a lot of existing 'Next Week' pages, I saw that most were very busy and bursting with information about next week or next months issue.

Throughout the development, I wanted to find the right colour scheme and a page that would attract the readers attention about the different bands that would be in the next issue. The colours and the text had to advertise the bands. I made 'Next Week' as big and as bold as I could without diverting attention from the main image and the other bands. I used the actual logo of 'Tonight Alive' so that readers would instantly be able to recognise who was being advertised. 

I was originally going to keep 'BACK!' as white but I saw that all the colour was at the top of the page and that I needed some colour at the bottom too. Blue wasn't bright enough but then I thought that red connotes danger, stop and is the colour to attract attention so I used red.

For my final idea, I incorporated ideas four and eight and I think that it worked really well because it has the business that an existing magazine has. The colours used also anchor the images and that works too. 

The main cover image is of my friend and I was going to use her and her boyfriend as the band that would be the main feature of the magazine. I asked them to pretend to be a band and asked them both questions that feature in the article and asked them to be creative about a band name and album name. 'One.Five' derives from their joke about each other: one and a half so they decided to change it to 'One.Five' so that their 'band name' was short and snappy and wouldn't "take ages to say" according to Tom.

I started out with a very basic layout for the magazine and this was the page that was probably the most rushed because I did it at the very end of the magazine process. After printing the double page spread out, I knew that it didn't have the same detail as the other page and the yellow backgrounds on the second page wasn't working and made the page looked unprofessional. I decided that I would have to take more photos of them so I could get rid of the ones on the second page and include some more. I took a couple more photos and they both turned out really well so I used them. Readers can still tell that it might have been a bit rushed but the new images definitely improve the look of the article. I used this for my final idea.