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I went to the Kerrang Relentless Tour and took lots of photos of the bands while they were playing. I chose my favourite photo to use as my main image on the front cover. I then edited it in Photoshop, changing the curves and levels to make the colours more vivid. I then used the same colour purple that was in the photo to colour in the masthead which was a font I got from DaFont.com. I outlined the masthead with a contrasting colour because I wanted to make it stand out against the purples in the photo.

Using the same colour I used for the outline of the masthead I added the dateline and the website just below the masthead. I didn’t put a selling line because I didn’t think it needed one, the masthead ‘unconventional’ gives the idea of what the magazine is like without needing a selling line. I then added a banner at the bottom of the magazine to put coverlines in about what else is in the magazine. I used the same colours as the masthead outline to help draw attention to what else is in the magazine as well as the masthead and to follow the colour scheme of my magazine.

I decided my magazine would have a few coverlines in the left third but I didn’t want to put them all in there because I wanted it to be slightly different and this way the layout of the front cover was more interesting. I added coverlines to the left and right of the image in the same colour used for the masthead, again to fit the colour scheme I wanted to carry on the whole way through my magazine. I used a font that was different to the conventional fonts you’d see on the front cover of magazines because I wanted my magazine to fit it’s name and be slightly different to the normal. I used a font from DaFont.com for the main sell to go with the main image. I chose to do it in black so that it stood out against the photo and the coverlines.