*Front Cover Progress

This is the first part to my front cover. Here, I cropped the image, made the background whiter and added a box on the bottom to add posters and other texts. At this point, I didn’t have the right font for my masthead, which I got off “Dafont”. So, I had to try and improvise and experiment with other fonts to see what would work.

Next I added the name of the band across the main image. It took me a while to choose the right colour, because I wanted it to stand out against the black clothing. Underneath I added a quote from the interview. I made the quote end on an ellipsis because it would be intriguing for the reader to see what they have to say.

The next part was adding the masthead. I was a bit unsure about how it would look, because I knew that I wanted it to have arrows pointing up, to connote the theme of rebellion and revolution, but I am pleased with how it has turned out. I also added “Plus!” as a buzz word, and I made it in green to stand out from the other colours, yellow and blue.

After that, I added another bar at the top, with something that the reader can get with this first edition of the magazine, so that there is something else for them. I also changed the colour of the box at the bottom, as well as making it smaller because that meant I could move the main image down, and create space for things such as taglines.

This is my front cover so far:

Here, I added some more information about what is included in the magazine. Originally, the writing was all in black, but I didn’t think it was appealing to the eye because it was all so close to the black masthead, and also the black and white clothing. So, I thought that making one text grey, and one text blue, would make it look busier, and it could connote chaos. This would be quite good, as it represents my theme of rock effectively.

There are still things I need to improve, such as the three posters. I want to edit the backgrounds and make the people stand out, because at the moment they are too dark.