Front Cover Issue

The two images above represent a typical music magazine front cover. The medium close up shot of the model is the most notable thing with the two so I wanted to follow this convention when producing my magazine. As well as this, the model is positioned in front of the title so as to convey their importance within this particular edition of the magazine. Usually the cover model is the person that has the most time given to them within the magazine. Another convention that both magazines have followed, that I too will do, is to use the same colour scheme. Using too many colours on the front cover would make it look unappealing to the target audience. By simply sticking to 3 or 4 colours, the you keep the magazine in order and not look too messy. You would also notice how different words on the page are in different sizes and colours to others. This is to add emphasis on certain words. As well as this, the larger the word, then probably the longer the article is within the magazine. It is usually the models name that is the largest word as they are the main focus of the magazine.

The two images above are of two front covers that I produced. The one on the right hand side was the original cover I was going to use for the final piece of coursework however I decided against this. The model looks to young for the article I have written about him (a drug ridden song artist). As well as this, I did not have appropriate pictures to use for my double page spread and I did not want to use a different model for the article based product as magazines in the industry today use cover models as their focus of the magazine and you would find an extended story or interview based around them. Because of this, I opted to do another photo shoot with another model and produced the front cover on the left of the screen. I kept the layout exactly the same however changed the colours. I did this as the picture did not suit a red colour theme. I thought yellow looked the most appropriate as it can be visible seen against the black that is on the page. As well as the yellow colour, I started playing around with the colour of the background before I had properly assembled everything. The background was changed to blue, but as you can see from below, it does not look very appealing to the reader so I changed it back to white.