front cover and evaluation

 

 

This is my magazine cover. I went with a white and orange theme for my text and splashes; I did this because I think that this stands out against my darker background. The theme for this magazine was ‘music’ I don’t think my magazine fits this theme well, if I was to look at my magazine without reading the text I would say it looked more like a fashion magazine because of the nature of the photo and the colours used. 

When creating my magazine I made a lot of alterations to the main image using photo shop, I added colour to the makeup and brightened the skin to give it a crisper fresh look. I think this makes the main image pop; it gives it more affect and a better finish.

I chose to use a mixture of serif and sans serif text to appeal to different audiences. The masthead is in sans serif and the sub heads are in serif, I think this makes my cover look different to opposing magazines. 

If I was going to complete this task again I would try and make my magazine look more music orientated. This would fit the brief and the target audience. If I did re do my magazine cover I would try and use a brighter main image with black and red serif text in block capitals to give it more affect. I would also add more to the cover to make it look busy and more interesting, I think this would interest the target audience because they would think that they were getting more for there money.
If I was going to completely re-do my cover I would go for a completely different style, I would try to follow the brief more closely instead of adding to many of my own ideas without thinking about the out come, because as it stand the magazine cover shown above does not hit the target audience.