Magazine DPS and front cover

Still focusing on the Company magazine layout, I placed the title in the left hand corner so that the images are next to each other in contrast (on one page the model is stressed and on the other she is happy and relaxed) The colours I have used follow my front cover by sticking to the three colour pallet of pink, white and black. I began my article with a few rhetorical questions to engage the audience and get there attention immediately. I have two columns per page making it appeal to the socio economic group C and C1. 

This is my first draft of my DPS as I need to know what changes I could make to improve the appearance for it to help appeal to my target audience. I began by inserting the "Six steps to becoming less stressed" down the right hand side of the right page (so it is kind of similar to a break out box) I kept the colour scheme consistent as I have used a hot pink for the sub headings, furthermore this would only really appeal to girls whereas I would have liked this article to appeal to both males and females. I used text wrap on the centre splash containing "Symptoms of stress overload" Again, this similarly follows the layout of the particular issue of Company magazine I was focusing on. The font I have  used for a lot of sub headings and masthead is Apple Chancery, connoting a positive (quite feminine) appearance to the article. 

I chose to use the Company magazine as inspiration for my front cover as it is aimed at roughly the same age group as mine, therefore including similar fonts, colours and topic choice to help me. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the actual edition of Company that I was looking at so I cant demonstrate changes and similarities I made. The image I used for the front cover posed as a difficult image at first because of the wide variety of colours (white, black and red) which made it difficult to settle on a font colour that would stand out amongst the colourful background. Although, white seemed like a basic and modern colour to use for the text and was also used in Company. I then needed a way to express skills and creativity throughout Photo shop, so used a variety of fonts and colours (then edited with FX) and used the "spot removing tool" to enhance clearer skin on the model. However, I still think some text could be made larger/ smaller to fit in with the rest as well as a smaller colour scheme to make the front cover look less crowded and more basic. The headlines I have included will appeal to the target audience such as, "Spring Special" and "How to love AND have a career"