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ON LOG:

FRONT

COVER

The first thing I did when I constructed my front cover was open up my main image in Photoshop to get rid of the background. I used the ‘Magnetic Lasso Tool’ to go around my image and crop out the background colour, where I was then left with a plain white background.

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Once the image had been edited in Photoshop I placed it on my front cover in InDesign alongside my masthead ‘BLAST’ which I resized so it would cover the width of the top of the page.

I used www.1001fonts.com to create my magazine name and chose this specific techno font because I knew it would go with the theme of house and dance music because of its unique look and the name itself tells the readers that my magazine is about loud, fun music.

The main image is wearing white, black and red so with this I decided to use a black and red colour scheme on a white background to contrast on my entire magazine construction. The t-shirt he is wearing represents Japan as it contains Japanese writing at the bottom of his shirt and also includes the colours of the flag, which also combines with the colour scheme of the magazine, but I specifically decided to use this image to link to my double page spread as the main story is about Japan itself.

I placed a barcode at the bottom right corner of the cover, discreetly including the price of the magazine of £2.50, alongside the date and website www.blast-magazine.com. I

then changed the font to ‘Bauhaus 93’ which is one of the main fonts I used for my magazine. The other main font I decided to add to my magazine was

‘Haettenschweiler’’.

I then placed my main cover line beside the main image, in a bold large font to stand out on the page and capture the readers eye to let them know that this will be the main story inside the magazine.

Right at the top of the page, above the masthead, I placed a cover line ‘The worlds biggest dance pop and electro pop magazine’, which is typically seen in most music magazines. I placed this here specifically because it advertises and alerts my readers that my magazine is popular and successful and the fact that it varies on the music genre.

I’ve also included a freebie which goes down well with all music lovers, a mix CD with all the latest and top tunes to excite and entertain them. I’ve used it as a hook to lure them into readingmy magazine.

Once I added the rest of the cover lines to the magazine with bold big subheads, I added another picture to bring more attention to the audience. I made sure that all my cover lines were neatly spread out across the page to fill up any dead space and not allow my front cover to look cluttered up.

I finished updating my magazine with a few final, different touches; I changed these cover lines to red to bring out the colour and also alert my readers of all the new artists that are featured inside.

As for the rest of the cover lines, I changed the subheads to red with a black outline, to make them very visible and clear to read.