Thursday, 28 April 2011

Final Front Cover & Analysis


This is the final front cover of my magazine. I struggled with aspects of it such as trying to get the arrangement on the page correct and choosing the colour scheme but overall I am happy with the final product.
I chose to have a dark colour scheme to my magazine as it fits with ‘rock theme’ that I wanted my magazine to have. Therefore I decided to have a black background and then accompany it with red, blue and a white masthead. After varying the colours a lot, I feel in the end the colours complement each other and the cover on a whole works.
I used many of the main codes and conventions that most magazines follow such as a significant masthead, an eye catching central image, some secondary images, a skyline, a side bar, magazine details and a barcode. It is essential to include features like these otherwise my magazine would not be realistic look like a real magazine.  
The image on the front cover is one of the most important features to a magazine. It tells the reader what sort of stories are going to be included inside, due to the storyline that goes with it, and helps to set the theme of the magazine. I chose this image because I think the guitarist is at an interesting angle and I like how you can see the clear detail on his tattoo; I think it is one of the most positive aspects of the image. I increased the contrast of the image to bring out the colours in the guitarist tattoo. I think the tattoo helps to set this ‘rock theme’ to my magazine and fits perfectly with what I was hoping to achieve. I like how the guitar draws in your attention because it is a bright white and overlapping the other images. It complements the white masthead ‘Untitled’ and the band name ‘Boys Like Girls’ as they are the most significant things on the page.
I used the online font website ‘DaFont’ to get the front of my masthead. I tried out a selection of fonts, as shown previously on my blog, until I found one that I felt would go with the theme of my magazine. I wanted it to be interesting and not just in a standard boring font because that wouldn’t catch anyone’s eye on the shelf, and as it always going to be identifiable with my magazine it needs to be effective. I therefore used an eroded font where the letters are slightly positioned out of a straight line. This adds personality to the masthead.
I chose to have a skyline because I think it is very common in magazines. I got the idea of having featuring band names between stars from a cover that I had previously looked at. I think it works well with my page and subtly adds more detail and colour.

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