Music Magazine Cover Progresses

I began creating my front cover by using the software In Design. I began to create my header and footer bars so that I would have a good idea of the space I have on the page. I also began to create my masthead and also began to create my sell lines. I followed my draft with the colour scheme of red for my masthead with a black outline and I also tried to find a font which was similar. My masthead is bold and stands out on the page. I tried to find fonts that were similar to my plan design.

Here, all my sell lines have been placed but I have not got a picture yet. I wanted to continue on trying to make my progress with the cover page even though I did not have my pictures yet. I have added my pug, my splash and pull quote along with smaller details to make my magazine look more unique. I have also added my sell lines on the right hand side too, I felt that I needed to have sell lines on both side of where the image will go as it gives the page more information.

Here I have changed the colour of my header and footer bar font as I thought that yellow would look better than white, giving my page more colour. I have also changed the colour of the splash as again I thought it would look better and stand out when placed on top of my image. I have made my splash a lot bigger to make sure it fully stands out on the page. I have also changed my pug as the other one had too much black on show, this one I feel looks a lot better as it is not too big yet is still effective and follows my draft design. I have also added my main image, I removed the background using Photoshop and I am happy with how it looks. I think my model suits my pop magazine. I have also added my subsidiary image which I also feel looks good on my page.








Final Cover

The final thing I did to my magazine was add a bar code with the price and issue number on there too. I also put a black box around my "Discover the best music!" to make it stand out and just look a bit better on my page. I have also made the image a little bit larger so there is less blank space above his head. I have also made my black graphic on the top right hand corner a little longer too to fill up the blank space.  I also made my splash smaller so it fitted on one line and made the quote under it stand out more as I feel this looks more effective than it did before. I have also changed some of the fonts as I felt it looked better on the page.