Music Magazine Front Cover Breakdown

The use of a white background leaves room for a more vary of the colour scheme. Also white creates a fresh and pure look for the music magazine.

Adding a barcode and price to add to the authenticity

The masthead is a rigid strong and bold text; very masculine. The blue connotes a cool, calm mood. To make it stand out against the background the darker shape was placed behind the masthead

The puff used to emphasise my magazine is place underneath my masthead. “The first for exclusive grime and hip hop”. The typography is sharp yet slanted; it is edgy and fresh like the magazine

The main sell line of the artist takes up the majority of the space on the front cover. As stated before the examples of similar genres to my genre dedicated most of the magazine front cover to them.

To keep with the cover scheme of the magazine another layer of similar lettering was placed over the original in the same colour as the masthead. The typography used is square and rigid but also thick. the font is not in line so creates a fun rebellious vibe to the magazine that appeals to the

The image on the left is the first image take while the right is the second used in the final production. The difference in both the clarity and the framing of the image can be seen. Also the costume (The Pac-man t-shirt) which has direct correlation to the main cover line. Also when cropped the green glow from the green screen behind the first image is no longer a problem. However there are elements of the first image that are much better than the second such as the pose; it looks more joyful that the second but overall the second image better presented the genre and the main cover line

The cropped main image was taken and inserted onto the front cover. I used the magic wand tool to easily remove the white background. Afterward zooming in on the photo the eraser was used to neaten the edges of the image so it did not look so fussy around the edges. Finally I brightened the image and edited its hue and saturation by filtering in more blue to add a slight blue light onto the image.

The additional cover lines were hen added to the front cover. From the research done before hand music magazines of a similar genre dedicate the whole front cover to mainly the artist with little additional cover lines so I used a similar approach.

I wanted this music magazine to have a long running fan base. To make this look as though it did I added to the feature, “50th

Issue”. This suggests the magazine is not only long running but has a large fan base.

As their was not as many additional cover lines I used a website ad to show that the magazine has more to offer. Also it suggest that it is up-to-date with the new technologies as it provides a website source

Another small detail to ad to the authenticity and polished look of the magazine.

The Finished Product