Drafting and Planning: Colour Scheme

Colour Scheme

Every single magazine, whether it is as popular as NME or as minor as The Fly, the Colour Scheme is one of the most conventions that magazines use to attract and appeal to their audience. The Colour Scheme is ually decided upon and chosen after the picture was taken. The editors look at the picture that was signed off to use for the cover page and decide what colours would be symbiotic. 

This cover page is a perfect example of an effective colour scheme. The editors looked at this picture of the colour star and used a dark orange to go with Nicki Minaj's hair.

For my music magazine, I will take the picture first, analyse it for main colours and use them for my colour scheme. I could also use colours that are symbiotic to the main colours or the complete opposites. For example I could use bright colours for the cover stories if the picture has a dark background or is the lighting is low key.










http://amateurpeople.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/double-page-spread.html
This is a link to my draft double page spread and I have used a pink background to my title as the lighting and the background is really dark. I did this to capture attention, the pink really does create a great effect.