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(12) Preliminary Task: Magazine Cover Explanation

 

Welcome again, so I've decided I'm going with this magazine cover I made

For today I'm gonna talk more about this cover, how it was made, the problems in making it, and pretty much why I styled it the way I did, so lets get into it

This magazine was made put together using Canva, for the laptop image I took a picture of my laptop using my phone, I used the flash setting to get that awesome light on the right that makes it look stereotypically new and clean. The text was all written by me and styled by me, with fonts and visual effects provided by Canva. The background is a stereotypical hacker type looking image which I was able to achieve simply using javascript, css, and html to put together and then I simply screenshotted my work and uploaded it as the background of the magazine where I blurred it slightly. Finally the barcode was made by me using a barcode generator.

There were some problems getting the right picture of my computer, in fact I took over 20 pictures trying to get it right. But it was worth it, as far as layout I based it on real life magazines I saw online and ones I've seen in video games of which I took inspiration from both. Here have a look,


So from looking at both these magazines one real, one fictional, you can see where I drew my inspiration for some elements. I love coding and made it based around it and the colors that revolve around that subject are usually red, green, and blue or as you know the color of pixels, rgb values haha. I've taken lessons on ux and I also know the colors green and blue which I use mostly in my magazine cover can be used to give a sense of trust, safety and growth, so it's a great way to make a viewer feel visually comfortable. 

I use font size to convey the importance of each heading and subheading as the viewer naturally reads in the way of a size hierarchy. I also use an F layout in my magazine so the reader reads more in the lanes of where I want them too, this is more natural. The small quote at the bottom is for humor purposes and is colored white to represent it's not part of the F layout I've made and is instead a hook for a viewer that has read thus far and presumably interested, this is my thought process at least. The fonts I used in the magazine are to look more visually appealing and unique, this is their sole purpose, to capture visual attention.

Anyways, I hope I made this clear why I made this the way I did and how I did it!

Thanks for reading!!

Title Picture made using Canva,  example picture 1 from Vogue Magazine,  example picture 2 from Fallout 4

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