This is the main body image for my front cover. I chose this as I believe this creates a nice image of a crowd at an edm club in London that I took. I used it as it kind of has a festival look to it do to the large crowds and amazing light set ups.

I then added my masthead which gave me an idea of what I wanted the magazine to then look like. It also then shows me the space I have for the rest of the cover lines.

I then added the skyline as this then gives it a more professional look. It is also a way in which if it was in a magazine rack in a shop the potential customer could see the it was the uks most popular edm magazine and may be tempted to read it.

Nass festival is probably one of the uks biggest festivals for edm, so one of the best ways draw the consumers attention would be to highlight the festival in my magazine especially with the summer approaching it seems almost perfect to add it to my front cover.

Another way in which I could draw the reader was to add big artist names that are relevant to this copy of my magazine so that the reader sees there name straight away and is drawn to read the magazine as its most likely to interest them. These texts I got from dafont to make each artist have its own specific style and make it stand out to the consumer.

I then added 2 other cover lines just to give the reader a more detailed view of what would be inside the magazine so they would then be more interested to buy the magazine.

i then added a barcode to make it seem more realistic and create the look of a front cover. From getting feed back from my class I found that my magazine looked a bit too dark and there was too much going on so the reader couldn’t really see the image behind.

After going over my research a bit more I took some inspiration from nme magazine and dj mag. To give me an outcome of this where I reduced the amount of text on my front . also I changed the image so that the reader has someone to focus on when looking at the front cover. I also added the date and the issue number to it so it was more official and the rule of 3 on the dj names but keeping the main feature article in the magazine the largest thing on that page to draw the reader.