Creating the front cover

CREATING THE FRONT COVER

This was my first draft, originally I wanted to go for a more minimalistic style in which the pictures speak for themselves. However after some feedback I received I decided against this. Not only would this make the magazine less appealing to my readers but it also contrasted with magazines I had looked at such as Q and Billboard.

To get feedback on my first draft again I turned to Facebook, two of the most influential replies are pictured to the right. The overwhelming response was that I needed to add more text which in my final draft can be seen.

To create my final draft the first stage was to insert the edited image. This brings out BEX from the background to the foreground. Furthermore I chose and image of her in a school girl outfit to fit the theme of a young girl turned popstar, someone so famous not even out of secondary school.

The next stage was to insert my masthead, this is the masthead which received the most positive feedback and therefore made it to the final draft of my magazine. It is on a red background which contrasts to the black of the chalkboard in the picture this brings it to the readers attention.

The next stage was to add text above BEX’s head, I used a simple font easily read and contrasting to the black background. I used a different font for the stars name in order to draw the eye directly to it. The entire magazine revolves around her and therefore her name should be given the spotlight.

In deciding what article’s to feature on the front cover I decided that I would choose two that would appeal to a young audience. This is why the first article refers to musically an app dominated by young teenagers.

The second article featured is meant to appeal to a older audience interested in the growing fame of the younger generation. Another pull could be a desire to understand who their children look up to and wish to be.

I decided to price my magazine at 4.00 an average price for music magazines. This of course needed to be inserted on the front cover along with a barcode.

One thing which draws a younger audience is the appeal of posters. In order to show off the posters within the magazine I first used the shape tool to insert a white rectangle. Afterwards I inserted an image from my photo shoot making it smaller to fit the size of the rectangle. This created the poster effect I wanted.

The first image shows the front of the poster, the second image features the back of the poster. Each have different mise en scene to increase the appeal.

As a finishing touch I used the text tool to insert the phrase: “FREE Poster” the phrase free was purposefully capitalised in order to draw the readers eyes. It is human nature to be drawn to anything they can get for nothing.

FINAL DRAFT

CONSOLIDATING THE FINAL DRAFT In order to make sure there were no adjustments to be made to the final magazine I showed 30 people the final draft. There ages ranged from 8-42 my predicted target audience for the magazine. The pie chart below displays the results. The question was “Does this magazine cover appeal to you?” Due to the overwhelming

support I decided to make the second draft my final copy.

Yes No