Screen grabs of my front cover

This is the finished product of my front cover for my music magazine. This includes all the coverlines, masthead, central image and the other codes and coventions of a music magazine previously stated. I feel this is a well designed front cover and would attract my target audience.



This shot shows the addition of a bar code issue date and price, it also shows an exclusive headline. This is a generic feature which is required for the product to be distributed, it is also located in a corner which means it is not distracting the audience eyes.



This next grab shows the short explanation of each story. I have used photoshop text boxs which allowed me to have a varied choice of fonts to do my coverlines. This is a technique which is used by NME.



This screen shot includes the exclusive storys which will advertise and try to catch the audiences attention. These are the coverlines which will appeal to my audience and are required to be interesting and about bands which the audience will recognise.



This includes my tag line for my music magazine which is love indie, love rythm which relates to the music genre i was aiming for. They were produced using effects on adobe photoshop. In this case it was the drop shadow effect.



This screen grab shows the main image for my music magazine. This main image uses a direct mode of address which is to a genreic feature of a music magazine as it draws the audiences eye to the magazine.



This is the beginning of my front cover design which includes my mast head and the background which my front cover will be developed on. This mast head has been designed and based on NME's mast head. This means my audience would be attracted to it because they would recognise the similarity. The mast head used to photoshop effects which were two layers of strokes which meant it had a black and white around the body of the text.