Reviewing my Cover Rough Draft Process

My magazine cover rough draft was the longest and hardest process yet! It was set to be due last week, but I had a hard time designing my cover. Luckily, my class was given generous extensions by our teacher. Let's get down to the nitty gritty of this rough draft.  

I wanted to make the background of my magazine cover: a picture of scattered childhood photos from my memory book. However, I quickly scrapped as I felt it would take too much time to find the right photos and that they would be too messy, chaotic to look at. So, I settled on two memorable pictures and for each: I styled it. The first photo, the one of my classmates while we were on a school field trip, was styled to look cute and kind of school-like. I edited the photo through Canva, giving it a warm vintage look. I loved the color scheme, yellow and white, yet the cover looked more like a field-trip than a memory-based magazine.

 Onto my second and final cover on the right, I decided to do a WAY older photo than the first one. It was back when I was around four celebrating my brother at Disney. On Canva, I also edited this photo by clicking on it, pressing edit, and filtering it to a fading color. If you saw my sample magazine cover revolving around Christmas, you may notice the littlest changes. Such as making my masthead, "Memory Lane" wrap around the Cinderella castle instead of being stuck in a corner or when I separated the cover lines with dots besides leaving straight lines. I decided to implement a common magazine cover element which is a little puff from the Canva elements stamped on the front page. A barcode was pasted on for the authentic magazine effect. The reason why I put "Submit Your Stories Now!" is to create this feel of an inviting magazine that shares stories or MEMORIES. Furthermore, I implemented cunning subheadings above headlines, providing a tease on what the inside of my cover would look like. It is important that I added words like "remember", "generation", "nostalgia", etcetera to present the meaning of my theme. The big heading in pink and the anchorage text below was designed to follow the color scheme of my pink shirt. The consistent color scheme of this cover was white, purple, and pink.

All in all, the message I want to convey to the readers is that this magazine is supposed to portray the loving moments growing up and how they are puzzle pieces to one's lives. I want the readers to see other people's stories and photos to reflect or even cherish what was they might or had gone through. Although my critiques from my professor will have given after this blog, I feel very revitalized as I know the basics of making a magazine. I know that not everything can be fit into a magazine, but it is necessary to experiment in order to learn.