Front Cover: DRAFT 3- Final?

This is potentially my final draft, but I will work on other pages and maybe come back to improve further on the front cover at the end. Feel free to leave any suggestions on final tweaks that it may need!

Front Cover: DRAFT 2

This is my second draft..

Front Cover: DRAFT 1

I have started working on the front cover for GiveMeMusic and here is the first draft. I have some improvments in mind in order to make it better for the next draft :)

Layout Results

After considering the feedback from the layout options I have decided to use the following as my front cover, contents and double page spread:

Front Cover

I will use option 1 as my front cover but I will have all of the cover lines on the left side of the page to make it look more busy.

Contents

I have decided to use the third option because it's a bit different from normal contents pages as the main heading is going vertically down the left side of the page and the editors letter is at the top rather than down the side. I want to make GiveMeMusic to stand out and this is one way I can do it.

Double Page Spread

I will use option 1 as my double page spread but may vary in the way I will put the pictures on the left hand page, as I may choose to do a collage of picturs of Beth depending on what ones I prefer.

Layout Options

 I have created 3 layout options for each of the front cover, contents page and double page spread of GiveMeMusic, shown below. PLEASE PICK ONE OF EACH THAT YOU LIKE THE BEST :)

Front Cover 1

Front Cover 2

Front Cover 3

 Contents 1

 Contents 2

 Contents 3

Double Page Spread 1

 Double Page Spread 2

 Double Page Spread 3

(NOTE- The double page speads shown above will be A3 size)

Experimenting with the image and colours...

I have made the decision to use the font shown below on the front cover draft and will now see what each of the four pictures look like with the font, and three main colours.

I'm thinking the three main colours to be

• Hot pink
• Turquoise
• White/black

but this could easily change depending on the image used.

Please pick which picture you prefer and the font you prefer.  I can put different fonts on different pictures as this is just an experiment. Feel free to make suggestions.

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Font Choices!

Please comment on the font that you think would best suit the masthead for my music magazine, taking into consideration the potential front cover images and bearing in mind that the target market is teenage girls, thankyou!

Narrowing It Down...

I have taken into consideration of the practicality of the front cover images in context to text and space for cover stories, and have narrowed it down to four pictures (see below) that I will now experiment with in photoshop with different fonts...

PHOTOSHOOT-example of photos

 I have taken a variety of photos of Beth in my chosen location and below are a few of them.. I will of course edit them on photoshop to adjust factors such as lighting. I concentrated mainly on trying to capture an image for my front cover so focused on close ups but there are some long shots and medium shots included that may be used in the contents page or double page spread. I have also interviewed beth, imagining that she has just won The X-factor and have an idea of the main topic of her interview in the double page spread.

PLEASE COMMENT AND LEAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON YOUR PREFERED PICTURES AND SAY WHAT CLOSE UP PICTURE YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO BE THE FRONT COVER IMAGE, AND ANY OTHER IDEAS FOR THE DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD PICTURE/S. THANKYOU :)