Drafts of the Front Cover

I have now nearly finished my front cover.

Whilst working with the magazine, I discovered that I didn't really like the original font I was going to use- it looked a bit odd with the picture and image of the front cover, and didn't quite fit the genre of my music magazine.

Therefore, I re-experimented with fonts.

Firstly, I tried IMPACT, and various shadows/outlines. This is what I ended up with;

However, I thought that this looked a bit plain.

Therefore, I decided to type each word out on a different cipher and make them disjointed, portraying the jagged style of the music magazine

This is what I produced;

However, I felt that this didn't really fit the conventions of my music magazine.

Whilst looking at music magazine title typefaces, I decided that I liked KERRANG's, with the suggestion that the title had been "beat by the music", so searched for a typeface like it.

Still inrested in creating a "jagged" effect for my magazine, I found and liked "28 days later", and with various shadows and utilization of each character on a seperate cipher, I decided that this would be an appropriate font to use. As each character was seperate, this enabled me to rotate the "R", so it could resemble the action of being "struck" by music. This again, enables a "jagged" and dangerous feel, promoting the effect of music explored in the magazine.

This is my final title;

I have now nearly completed the front cover.

I have produced a mock-up of what I want my front cover to look like.

I have decided to have the title and majority of cover lines in red. This is a warm colour, looking inviting and provides a contrast to Sophie's green dress.

Obviously I will have more cover lines and I will use a better copy of the photo in the actual front cover.

This is my work so far:

I do like the font, and feel it stands out. However, I feel as if I could edit it more to show better use of photoshop and make the front page look a little different. I have now airbrushed and edited the photo so it looks more appropriate for a music magazine front cover.

This is the final main photo I will use for my front cover.

I have edited:

• Sophie's skin, it is less patchy. I used the retouching tool to do this.


• Her hair, before she had a few stray hairs which I have cut out using the background eraser tool.


• I used the clone stamp to cut in her dress to give her a better shape: before, there was a bit of loose material which looked a bit odd.


• I have adjusted the lighting and contrast of the picture in photoshop.

I may also flip the photo over in photoshop, meaning that I can move the picture to the left and Sophie's head will be tilted towards the cover lines. This means that the "middle ground" of the magazine will consist of Sophie's head and the cover lines, which will be where the readers eyes are directed to first.