Google mock up ideas

Here are my mock up ideas. I wanted to try and experiment different ideas and I eventually came up with these ideas. I feel that  They came out well, but could easily be improved on my final piece.

My front cover follows the conventions of a music magazine. However, the main image doesn't go over the title of my magazine, which it could. Also, I feel that the blue banner across the bottom makes the magazine look less professional, so that could be missed out when I produce the final product. The cover lines also do not stand out as much as I feel they should, I could possibly change the background colour of the page. The main story stands out well, but it looks almost separated so I will make it closer in my final piece. I like the red banner across the bottom of the page, and I also like the title. For my title, I applied the stroke technique to it and I feel I will use this technique throughout my piece. The bar code is away from the rest of the page, however I feel it still looks good, and I think it will still look good on my final product.



 My contents page looks fairly bland in my opinion, but its structure is good, I will change the colours slightly but keep the structure. I kept the red bar at the bottom, but made it slightly shorter to accompany the 'Contents'. The subtitle after "Welcome to Tone." also blends in, so I could possibly make the names of the artists in red to attract attention to them. I will also use an original image for the photo of Matt, as I used a photo from Facebook for the current one, (with permission). The new photo will also have his whole head. I will also get a photo of him playing a guitar. Which I will also change the opacity. I like the way I kept the same style for the "Contents" the same as for my title. I will also remove the white rectangle behind the page number.






My double page spread I feel came out the best out of the three pieces. I feel I will keep a lot of the aspects of this. I like the red bar at the bottom which I have kept on all of my pieces. I will get a far better image, possibly from a side-on angle. I like how I have implemented twitter, as I have noticed that successful magazines have engaged and included their readers. I like the title, but I feel it could be more centralized to draw more attention to it, and I also need to include a quotation from my artist. I will also move the questions to follow the outline of my image.