Drafts For My Front Cover

I have made four front cover drafts before i came to my final cover. The following are covers that i don't think are completed or either don't have the right elements for my college magazine or my audience.

I didn't use this cover because it looks very basic. The picture itself isn't a good one because it has got a shadow behind the model has a shadow behind her so this picture couldn't be used for a magazine. The masthead is very hard to read because the font is very swirly and i don't think it would be appealing to college students. The box with all the headlines in is also a bad idea because it makes the page look very empty and uninteresting and looks as if its blocking part of the picture out almost like hiding something it would look much better if the text was spread out. I also don't like the sun shaped box with the price inside it, it makes the magazine look very ammature and it is not relevant to the magazine I am creating. The colour scheme is also a bad idea because there is not really one therefore it wouldn't be very attractive to the eye its just a very messy cover.
I used the name ' The College Times' on this draft cover and the one below as a spoof of the newspaper 'The Times' but obviously for college students, this was to crate the feel of a sophisticated newspaper, but i don't really like the name after thinking about it because its not very imaginative I'm sure I can come up with a better name.

This draft cover has the same picture as the last, which i will not be using in my final draft. The masthead is much clearer to read than the last, the yellow stands out well on the red background, this is also a classic  style on many magazines and newspapers to catch the eye because it is very bold. This draft has more of a colour scheme than the last draft with the blue, yellow and red but it still looks a bit messy because the masthead looks very different to the rest of the page, rather than blending in. I also really dislike the heart shaped box with the price in because it look very girly so therefore men may be put of buying it even though i made the heart blue to appeal to men, I do think it looks too girly.

 

This is an incomplete front cover draft. I used a bar code I took of the Internet and cropped of the numbers and added my own. Its a very basic picture but I think the colour of the background blends well and gives the cover a boldness which is eye catching to passers by. The masthead is yellow again because i liked the way it went so well with the last draft cover. I didn't finish this cover because I didn't like the picture. The model is doing a very generic pose with his thumbs up, were as I would prefer a picture of him smiling and just looking content therefore I will not be using this picture for my final draft. I used the name 'Student Echo' to create the imagery of college student's telling others whats going on in the college, like an echo of news.