Final Front Cover For my Magazine

 My final front cover I had to make the bar code slightly smaller as it was too prominent on the page. This needed to be sorted as this was the first thing that caught the readers attention instead of the feature article photo. This is my final product.
My music magazine suits and challenges convention of a regular music magazine as i have included a long masthead which is not conventional. However, the layout and style of the magazine is conventional. There are elements within my magazine that are conventional and unconventional.

The colour scheme is red, black and white, this is continued throughout my magazine to suit my house style. I have included cover lines that are flushed left. There is a bar code, date, issue number and website placed at the bottom for the readers benefit.

The feature article photo is a close up with direct eye contact, this makes it personal and interesting, drawing the reader in. It is a clear image with no noise, and the direct eye contact and her smile make the magazine approachable. With my model, her smile and her clothing choice with the wristbands make her look her age, and not to sexualise her like most women or girls are within the media. It shows how my magazine is made for all people, ages and genders. My magazine is for males and females from the age for late teens to people in their 20s - 30s.

The overall house style of my front cover and my magazine has been shown through colour, typography and text, and the style and genres of music.

Here I added in a bar code and a price for my magazine. I looked at my magazine and saw that there was something missing. I re-evaluated my product and knew I had to add in a bar code and price to make it more conventional and to use it as a filler.

Fourth Front Cover for my Magazine

Third Front Cover Development

Second Final Front Cover Development

Here I decided to change the style of font for the text. I knew I had to make the text more visible and stand out to the reader. I made the text bold and changed the colour of the text for some of the different pieces. 

First Final Design of Magazine Front Cover

This is the first final design of my front cover. Here is the first basic layout of my front cover. The resolution of the JPEG file is not very good, so I needed to improve this aspect. Also, certain fonts and colour`s do not match the the image or the house style. The font colour needed to be changed in certain parts of the magazine front cover. 

For effect i decided to justify the text left, and slightly misplace them so they are not inline. This breaks convention and does not make the magazine look organised. So another improvement will be to justify them left and ensure that they are in line along the left hand side of the page. 

The text needs to be more visible as it is hard to read some of the text on the page. I will find a way to improve this and ensure that everything is clear. 

Third Front Cover Picture Design



Here I began to work on this photo. I loved this photo the most out of every picture I took. The picture is clear and has no noise to the image, the lighting hits her head perfectly from behind and on the right side. However I began to experiment with placing the masthead on the image. This did not look right, so I decided to increase the brightness and the contrast on the image to brighten her face and the background. This immediately made the image look magazine front cover material and would allow me to add text to the white background.

I decided to take the picture in front of a white background and used a bright light behind the hair to make it stand out. The effect of using the white background and the lighting the hair from behind allowsme to have the perfect background and does not mean i have to cut out around the tiny detail in the lose hair.

I also loved how the masthead match the image and they both compliment each other. The lighting and the pose, will allow me to place the text where I want it to go in the right places for me to justify the text left.

This image is the feature article photo that I am going to use for my magazine front cover. 

Second Front Cover Picture Design

For my second front cover design I used a close up of my models face. I liked this photo as it stood out to me. The close up shot makes her eyes stand out, making it feel very personal.

The contrast of the light coming from the right side of her head makes her hair look as if it is glowing, and the shadow on the right side of her face makes the image and figure stand out from the page.

 Here is a screen shot of how I made and developed this front cover photo. On this front cover I used the exposure tool too increase the brightness and decrease the contrast in this image. The extra brightness on her face makes the feature article photo stand out even more making it look even more appealing. 

I did a similar technique for the masthead on this front cover. I used a Stencil STD font, and instead of using a black font I used a white font to make the masthead stand out more, but I kept the reversed word "love" in red. 

In this front cover, I love the the feature article photo, but do not like the masthead that goes with the image. I think in order for both of these to work the masthead needs to be a smaller title, with possibly on letter, like in Q magazine.