My Magazine Cover

    While learning the many magazine conventions, I found them very easy to remember and understand. When it came to reasoning behind specific design choices on magazine covers, it all seems obvious and makes good sense. Because of this, i found it very easy to understand and remember the conventions of a magazine cover. 

    My genre choice is derived from the picture that I personally took at Rolling Loud Miami 2024. I used the image to convey the theme and genre of music. To be more specific, my magazine is supposed to cover everything music related, like new releases or big upcoming shows. My magazine conveys this with every coverline talking about something music related. For example, it covers fashion in music, cheap tickets, and upcoming festivals.

    The conventions I used include coverlines, a main coverline, a title, a boxout, a banner, and bright and noticeable fonts. The yellow and purple contrasts to make it eye catching, as well as to highlight certain words or phrases. This highlighting is used with red and white. The coverlines help bring interest and curiosity as to what the magazine has inside. Reading the topics of interest will draw in those who are into music.

    Some challenges I had were first understanding how to create certain things. For example, it took me a little bit to get used to how to change the color, font, and other characteristics of a box of text. 

    In addition, I also found difficulty in figuring out how to correctly size text in order for it to fit into the text box correctly without any cut offs.

    Some successes i had were being able to find the right fonts to match, even though they were different fonts. I also found it easy to adjust the angle of texts and correctly place them in a place that is neat but still gets the job done with precision.

    Some important take aways from what I have learned are that i should try and find shortcuts to do certain things to create the process easier and overall more efficient. With this, when i create another magazine cover, I will be able to do it more efficiently which in turn will allow me the ability to have more creativity.

    This magazine cover will help in my portfolio project by not only being able to display my beginner skills and abilities within InDesign and my understanding of the conventions of a magazine cover, but it will also help me scale my skills and abilities for the software over time, allowing me to see if improvements are made for every project.