Front Page - First Draft

This is my first draft of my magazine front cover, it has a bold red font at the t

op which connotates with blood and violence as the audience for my magazine is for 15-19 year old's who are interested in Indie Rock music. This age range is often associated with violence as teenagers are stereotyped to be "Thugs". Here my cover line is simple and has been shaped around the image.

I changed the colour font to black as i thought that this would relate to my target audience and would be clear to read. I have also edited my photo using Photoshop Cs4 which allowed me to darken around the outside of the image for a smokey effect.

I have rotated the image here and played around with the contrast of the picture so it fits into the relevant codes and conventions of a magazine.I have also added a yellow and black striped banner across the front cover, this is to represent "danger tape" as if too say that the magazine is very explosive or dangerous. I have also played around with the title font here and it is "STENCIL", this makes the magazine give off a bad boy looking effect as the font is very strong and straight which gives off the connotations of a very strong opinionated magazine.

Here I have changed the colour of the title of the magazine and the font to make the title a lot more stronger and for a recognisable effect. The font I have used is "Super Black SF" and I will continue to use this font for my other titles in the magazine so that I create my own house style.

I have also began to create cover lines and cover images around the left hand side of the image, the images around the main image are all original images taken by myself and are being featured on the front of my magazine to advertise what me Magazine has got to offer the target audience.

I have changed the image to black and white to see what the difference looks like and I have decided to keep it like this for now until i get new images for my front cover. Notice that I have also played around with the positioning of the title and the issue number and price so that they are both more recognisable and easy to read.

i have also added a circular pug to the bottom of the image that lays on top of the yellow and black stripes along the bottom of the front cover. In the pug it advertises a "Win a day with Pete Wentz!" Pete Wentz is a musician who would be associated with the kinds of music features in my magazine and would appeal to the target audience.

In this image you can see that I have now added a proper cover line which is eye catching but does not distract attention from the main image itself. Also I have re positioned the Banner and the pug so that they are now out of the way of the main image and follow the codes and conventions of a magazine cover.

I have tidied up the Pug in this picture so that it lines up with the inner circle as in the previous image it did not look professional as the pug leaked off of the page. So in this picture you can see that the pug now lines up with the text inside it and also is visible on the page.

I have now created another cover line that is located on the bottom right hand corner just above the magazines bar code. The cover line here has the main title and a little information about the article. Each part of the text is in three different colours, this goes against the codes and conventions of a magazine as usually a cover line is just one colour.

Here I have change the cover line to two different colours which are black and white. These link into other colours that have been used on the front already and match the house style. They are also easy to read however I think that I want to change it so that the cover line is just white so that the reader knows that the cover line is all one story.

Here notice that I have kept the cover line on the right hand corner the same colours. I have also moved the issue date and price to on to the bar-code in the bottom right hand corner as it is out of the way and doesn't distract attention from the main image yet it is still visible to the readers.

I have now tried out the bottom cover line in only one colour and I have decided that it is impossible to read and isn't very eye catching. So I am going to change it back to black and white.

In this image you can see that I have changed the cover line back to black and white and is very clear and attention grabbing to the audience. I have also changed some of the effects on the title of the magazine as before it did not stand out very much and wasn't possibly big enough for the audience to get the full affect by. So I have changed the effect on the text and now bevelled and embossed black around the edges to just make it a bit more edgier. Also I have enlarged the text so that it ever so slightly overlaps the main image.

I now have a new image for my front cover. I decided that I wanted to use a close up shot for my main image as I can capture the main emotion on the models face and so that the audience can recognise the person featured in the magazine more clearly.

I changed the main front cover image once again as I felt that the previous image wasn't cheeky enough for the character that I wanted to portray so I decided to go with this image which illustrates a more cheeky chappy and the lighting in the picture is also a lot more brighter so that the magazine looks up beat and interesting. There is also now text in the banner running along the bottom of the front cover which advertises a free gift for the reader. This enhances sales and make the magazine look like it has got a lot to give for the low price.

I have added a new cover line that is in the top right hand corner of the magazine cover. The cover line is used her