Music magazine: Stages of my front cover

Stage 1

Once I designed my masthead, I then put it in place and put it into size. I made my photo black and white  but kept the lips red so they stood out and gave off the idea of sophistication and glamour. This is what would appeal to my target audience. I matched the colour of the masthead to her lips to draw attention to both of them. 

Stage 2

I then added my cover lines, I put my 'artists' name in bold and added a white stroke so it stood out amongst the dark background. I used bold but simple fonts making them eye catching and easy to read. I used a reduced colour palette of typical girl colours such as pink, purple and red and used a block of colour to also act as a background to some of the cover lines making them easily seen against her dark dress.

Stage 3

To make it look like a typical pop music magazine I added a puff however only make it have a stroke as the circle so the cover image was still easily seen. I tryed using a whole block of colour for the puff however the cover looked over crowded and messy, i thought this gave a sophisticated look to the magazine cover, while also making the cover line stand out. At this point I Also decided to add a tag line saying 'the ultimate pop mag' this use of slang would appeal to my target audience of teenage girls and makes it look like a music magazine. I made the word 'pop' stand out by putting it in a typical pop font and making it red.

Final front cover

To finish, I added the finishing touches of typical conventions of a music magazine such as a barcode, the date and a price. I also thought it needed something extra so then added a banner across the bottom of the cover with again a simple but bold font 'calibri'.