Construction evaluation

To create this magazine front cover I needed a picture of Dillon and to get one, I needed to use a camera and direct Dillon into the same pose as the one on the front cover of the magazine I am copying. What went well is that I managed to get Dillon into the centre and into the same pose as the magazine. I could have taken more photos though to allow me to have a wider variety to choose from when copying the magazine. Also I could have chosen a better magazine to copy because my first choice was not professional and went against a lot of magazine conventions. 

The photos I took were uploaded onto my computer but I needed to select the one which I think best copied the magazine and looks the best. I learnt to look more closely at the pictures and see what was similar and different to the original cover.

When editing the picture of Dillon, I learnt to used Adobe Elements 11 to improve the quality of the photo and to crop Dillon so he would cover more of the page.

After that, I learnt to used InDesign to add the masthead and other text to the magazine front cover. I then learnt to changed the colour of the text and add colours behind it to make them stand out. When making the front cover, I learnt how simple it is to add and change the colours and positions of the text. When copying the cover, I learnt how they were set out to have the model in the middle as the main focus and the test surrounding them. I can also see how they choose contrasting colours to allow for some parts like the masthead to stand out and attract people.