Final Cover For Music Magazine

This is my final draft for my magazine front cover. The front cover picture is black and white because it is the most striking yet simple picture this is because the model has dark make up on and her eyes are light in the shading which makes her eyes pop to the customer looking at the magazine it makes me feel as if she’s looking directly at you. Also her hands and body position make her look like she’s trying to either escape or it might look like she’s begging which both i reckon are effective ways of making people look at a cover. 

  Like in 'Drummer' and 'kerrang!' i liked having the theme of a few colours for writing and the pictures so i chose blue, white and black to make the light blue stand out more from the cover,  magazines is researched such as ‘kerrang!' use black blocks to write the head mast and other titles on the pages of their front covers but their writing is yellow or white which is eye catching but i also think the colour I chose i think is just as effective. 

To make the cover more interesting i put smaller pictures in colour. I choose a picture exclusive of 'The Guilloteens’. The picture is one of me and two friends when we were younger so I thought it would look good as a 3 piece girl rock group since we all looked the part. The other picture taken of my guitar was taken at the school and it fits in with the shot and the double page spread i shot of 'Orinnaa'.

I choose to incorporate the front cover of the 'Rolling Stone' Lady Gaga cover by overlapping the quote from Orinnaa onto her so its obvious its her, i also used the idea of listing the bands on one side and the main feature on the other so separate them and give more space for a large font.

The bands i chose to list at the right hand side of the page are actual bands but I’m not planning on having any pictures or anything by them in the rest of my work.

I think my final cover reflects well on the research I did and I took many of the elements into consideration and I think this cover fits most ideally into the genre and the age group of the magazine I’m trying to create.