Creating my front cover: Muse LIVE

Sophie Dunsby

Logo Designs

MuseLIVE

In the first step of producing my front cover for my music magazine, I experimented with different logo designs. I wanted to use colours that would be neutral to both genders, so I used red, black and white for my main colours. I wanted my colours to be neutral to both genders because in reference back to my research, there was roughly an equal amount of male and female people who read music magazines. I thought that the word “LIVE” would be best in all capital letters because the type of font suited the word that way the best.

Overall, I think that the third design is the best logo design for my magazine because having a dark red background created a bigger impact on the title.

Choosing the main image of the front cover

For choosing the main image, I wanted it to feature the music artist I will include in my magazine for an interview. I took different photos of Han-sun in different compositions. I thought that the first one was the best choice for the main photo because it is a close up shot of her and her guitar.

Editing the main image for the front cover

I used Photoshop in order to edit the main image of the front cover.Firstly, I edited the gradient map of the photo so that the photo would be black and white. Secondly, I selected the guitar and changed the colour from black and white to a red gradient so that this would fit with the colour scheme of red, black and white. I also wanted to emphasise the focus of the guitar.Thirdly, I edited out the background in order to add a dark red background which will be explained in a later slide.

Background and LogoFor my background, I experimented with Photoshop to make the final decision before designing the music magazine. In the first design below, I liked this design because I felt that it fit well with the idea of the music magazine being a Christmas edition. However, when I used this on Quark it was difficult to choose a colour font for the text in front of the patterns in the background. In the third design below, I liked the design but I didn’t think the background pattern suited a Christmas edition magazine. Finally, I chose the middle design because it suited a Christmas-style magazine and also it fit well with other coloured fonts.

Using QuarkFor producing the rest of my music magazine, I used Quark. I decided to use two types of font (Bookman Oldstyle and Helvetica) for the headlines and to distinguish the headlines from the rest of the information on the front cover I made them a bigger size font. I used pt sizes between 48 and 15. The colours I have used are red, white, black, green and red. I used these colours to make it Christmassy for the Christmas edition.

Furthermore, in my information I included the price. I decided to have the price as £2 because in reference back to my questionnaire, the majority of people who answered were willing to pay £1 to £3 so in conclusion I chose the price £2.

Indirect mode of address: I chose this type of address because I wanted her focus to be on the guitar, rather than looking directly at the audience.