Front page layouts for my magazine.

I have designed two different front pages for my own magazine. The reason why I have designed two different front covers because I can now see which one looks better and which one is most suits my genre. In my first draft you can see that i have used the colour scheme of black, white and red mainly focusing on black and red. Where as on my second draft the colour scheme is the same but this time focuses on more of the black and white colours. In my opinion I prefer my second front page draft because it is more plain and not to in your face or eye tiring however my first draft has too much going on at the front which can confuse people about what is included. 

I have chosen this colour scheme because I think that the colours red, black and white are colours that complete each other. There are three colours that goes well together and brings strong contrast.