Ellie Warmingham reflects on the process of designing a magazine cover. She started with a simple cartoon-like background and white borders. She added a title using the "Neon" font and cartoon/3D characters. For the final design, she changed the background to blue instead of green with trees. The character positions changed as she added different platforms for them to stand on. The process involved adding placeholder boxes and images, then text. She adjusted backgrounds and layouts to improve the overall design.

1. Production Reflection
Ellie Warmingham

2. Process
I started by choosing a simple,
cartoon-like background so it would
fit my game magazine more than a
real-life image would. I put in some
white borders so I could add in text
and images on top, making them
stand out a little more.
I added a title using a font called
‘Neon’ which I thought went well with
my design. I also added in some
characters that went with the colour
palette I had chosen earlier. Majority
of the ones I picked had a cartoon/3D
design, some of them otherwise
having a 2D design instead.

3. Process
I put in some more text and put in
the issue number for my magazine,
adding a few more details which
included another character and a
world globe. I thought it would make
it more interesting, giving you more
to look at other than just the
characters.
My finished design included some more
text to tell the audience the contents other
than moving some characters around and
changing them up a some more, so they
were different sizes. I included some
details like coins, stars, a barcode and a
price so it looked more genuine. I'm happy
with the result overall although I'm
wondering if it would have looked better if
I had chosen a different background.

4. Process
The final design for my poster pretty much matched up with what I had done on my
rough version of this poster, although some things did change. For instance, my initial
ideas for my poster was to have the poster with a different background. I was going to
have more trees in the background and have more shades of green, rather than having
a blue background.
The background looks a lot
better like this than what I had
in mind before. The characters
I used stayed the same but a
lot of their positions ended up
changing because I added in
different platforms/images for
the characters to stand on. The
piece of text that says ‘new
releases’ was moved and a title
to show the contents of the
magazine was added at the top
instead.
Magazine plan Final design

5. Process
I began by adding in little black
boxes and circles so I could
replace them with proper
images later. It was easier to
remember my layout plan this
way and add in text and images
where I needed because I could
simply clip them to the shapes.
I placed the images where the
black boxes were and clipped
them to it and left the green
ones for text. It took a little
while to find some good quality
images that fit my layout, but I
think it turned out quite well.

6. Process
Now that I have put the images in my pages, I
started to add in the text on top of the green
boxes. I didn’t bother to find information on
Zelda that I could put in because it would’ve
taken too long, and I needed to get this
finished. I ended up keeping the default text
that shows up when you create a new text
box. Looking at it overall, it doesn’t look too
bad, even if the text doesn’t match up with
the work I’ve done.
Now I've added in the text, I thought I'd see
if there was any details or anything I could put
in to improve it. I was wondering if I could
change the background because it looked too
plain. I wanted to add some text to brighten it
up a bit more. I ended up choosing a
background from Zelda which was of a green
forest. It looked too busy as it was, so I
lowered the opacity so you could see
the whole magazine.

7. Process
The text I was going to use for my title ended up
changing because I didn’t feel it looked right on the
final design. I went for a much simpler design
which seemed to fit a lot more in my opinion. On
the test design at the bottom, I added empty,
green spaces where the text could go. I tried to
spread them out fairly evenly so there was a good
mix of images and text. The only thing that
changed in the layout is the image and text on the
right side of the magazine. They ended up getting
moved so it covered up more of the empty spaces.
There was also a piece of text on the right side that
ended up being removed because there wasn’t
enough space for it. Moving onto the background, I
initially was going to leave it blank but I decided to
try and see what it would look like with an image
behind it. I found a picture from Zelda that had a
nice landscape full of trees and thought it would
look good with what I had already done. It looked a
bit much at first, so I lowered the opacity and I
really liked the result.