This was the first cover I drafted. The picture is of one of my friends who I thought would suit the genre of the magazine. She's young with choppy hair, piercings and dark make-up which is stereotypical of the genre of the magazine. I wanted to use a girl for the front cover because I think my magazine is probably going to be more directed at girls who are interested in rock music. The picture was taken at near by school, I thought this was a good setting because the age group of my audience would be likely to still be in high school or college. I like the effect of the model clinging onto the fence because it looks like shes angry or about to scream which synchronizes well with rock music. Once I decided on this picture I played around with the editing of the picture and chose different shades to use I ended up not choosing this one because I didn't think it was very eye catching.
I decided on the name Breakdown for my magazine because in most music and especially rock music there's a climax to the song and the slang for it is breakdown and no other magazine has used it, I also thought it was appropriate because it can be interpreted for the breakdown of rock music news.
This is my second draft of my front cover and is very close to my final draft. I changed the shading of the picture to black and white I think it’s much simpler and striking which makes it more eye-catching, it is also a easy base to put titles on. The reason I didn’t decide to go with this cover is because id didn’t like the grey blocks with the writing on it makes the cover look dull and the picture fades into the background so that’s what I decided to re think.
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