Post Production of Front Cover

• I started off with my masthead. I chose a font from dafont.com and I decided to choose Music Matters but abbreviated it to MM. I use the program Photoshop and use the bucket tool to filled in the colour. I wanted it red because will stand out on my front cover. Placing in InDesign made my masthead very pixelated which wasn’t good because it would look unprofessional. I then had to think of a different masthead.

• I decided to use CURVE as my masthead because it well-rounded and edgy. As I said before when using dafont.com fonts, it becomes pixelated so I just used dafont.com as a platform of ideas. I found one which I thought went well with my magazine called Stenha. I then went on Mircosoft Word used chose a simple bold font and used blank textboxes to cut out the letters. It was a long processes but I thought it was inventive and made my magazine original. From dafont.com

My own design

• Now I have an idea of my masthead, I thought about the image I was going to use for my front cover. I chose this one because she looks welcoming and open-hearted. I decided to keep the background to show she lives in natural surrounding and now fake celebrity world. It also shows she is one of us and she is no different. She is looking directly to the reader which gives the magazine a personal touch.

• Going back to the masthead, I wanted to challenge conventions by adding a 3 dimension effect to it. I didn’t know what colour I wanted to use, I first considered using white against black because they contrast nicely but found that it was too heavy. I then thought about grey because grey is the middle tone of black and white. I put white against grey and it complimented very well and the grey wasn’t too strong/dark as black.

• After sorting out about my masthead and main image, I then started adding in the sub-headings of my front cover. In my research I found that the number tends to be bigger than the writing to emphasise it more. I followed conventions by doing the same. I also found that they tend to stick to 3 colours only, more than 3 colour tends to look messy. However I still thought it didn’t look right.

• This is my final product of my front cover. as you can see I changed the sub-headings. I added more white to make it stand out and.

• I was happy with my front cover after I made the final decision. I thought it challenged but also followed conventions.