Front Cover Progress And Changes

Here you can see the image I have decided to use, along with my masthead and main coverline. At this stage I was still undecided as to what colour and size my masthead should be. I edited my image so that it was brighter and gave a more dramatic effect. I decided to keep my main artist (Beth Sully) name in the same colour a her jumper. The colour of her jumper set the main colour in my colour palette for the magazine. The font I have used for my masthead is similar to that of ELLE and Vogue magazine. This represents my m,again as more feminine as the magazines it is based on are female targeted fashion magazines. This style of font will appeal to my female target audience.

I decided to change the colour of my masthead to purple. I did this because my contents page features purple. I wanted the colours to flow throughout and this colour shows female connotations. In order to keep the same colours throughout the magazine I changed my colour palette to muted pastels. These include the colour of my model's jumper, purple and other similar colours like green, beige etc. From this image you can also see that I began adding more detail to make it look like a real front cover. Barcode, web address, price etc. 

Here is my front cover before I made more changes to it. After receiving some feedback I decided to move the date to the top left hand corner along the side of the 'L'. I also adjusted my coverlines to make them fit around the page better. I made the gap between 'and' and 'Britney' smaller as it was too big and looked out of place. I edited the text under 'Beth Sully' to make it fit along the image better. The artists I have mentioned are all female. This will attract my taffeta audience of young females and some males also. However, I have mentioned more males on my contents page to satisfy the needs of the small percentage of males in my target audience.

Here is my final front cover draft. I changed the size of my main coverline and put it into italics to make it stand out as the main coverline. I also did this because I felt it looked a lot better. I changed the font all of my artists' names to the same font. I did this so that it flows throughout the page. I have again kept the marmalade-orange and purple colour scheme for the whole page. I feel the colours I have used have really made the page pop. This is the style I was looking for. I added a puff to make the page more realistic. It also adds extra benefits to the readers of the magazine. The audience will be intrigued to find out what can be found inside.

Here is my final front cover. I decided that my main image looked better as a bigger medium close up and it also made my text fit a lot better around the page. I feel that this makes it easier to read for my target audience. It also draws more attention to the reader with the bright colours of the jumper. I feel that this will stand out on a shop shelf and could be a top seller! My information is clear and easy to read, making this a key reason to buy it. I am happy with this final design and will not be making any further changes to it.