Music Magazine Front Cover

After taking my pictures of this magazine I choose my favourite, and the one I thought looked the most professional.  After placing the photo into Photo shop I then decided to shrink the photo down, as it was too big for my cover and remove the plain background.

After shrinking the picture down to a respectful size for a magazine I then removed the background by using the easer tool. I then quickly went over the photo with the blemish remover, just to give it a little shine. After that I went onto google and looked up 'Light Blue Background' and found the prefect one. So I copied it and pasted it into Photoshop, playing the layer under the first layer, so that it would go behind it. I then used the free transformation to make the background bigger.

After sorting out my background I then decided on the name of My magazine. After choosing, I used the text tool and and ragged it up to the top of the cover and wrote in the name. I chose to use wide lain regular as my font ,and the size as 479.26. The colour I choose is a pale pink. I chose to use pastel colours as my colour scheme as I think they irk well together andPink and Blue are on different ends of the spectrum.
After doing my mast head, I then placed a barcode at the bottom left hand corner.

I next added in my main heading. Since I used Ashleigh as my model, I choose to use her name in my magazine by making her a upcoming young singer who had been voted the Uk's best new young singer. Hence why she was on the cover. I choose to make the size big, but not as big as the mast head, but big enough so that it still stood out. I choose to use the colour scheme of Black and a darker pink for the subheading, as I think they worked well together.
The second subheading, i placed it on Ashleigh's top, and since that then made the background Black, I chose to use Dark pink and then a lighter pink for the font colour of the text.

I then added more subheading in, and a tangent line. The tangent line is there to sell the magazine ,ore by persuading people that it's one of the bets magazines to have. I also added in a price just above the barcode.

This is my final product. Overall I'm rather happy with my final cover. I think that the magazine reaches the target audience of Teenage girls who are into music and gossip. I think the colour scheme works well, as it it bright and colourful which is what the magazine is trying to get across. I think if I were to change any improvements, I'd maybe go for a colour scheme that was a bit darker and mysterious.

Music Magazine Analysis

Music Magazine

The genre  magazine is a Rock magazine.
The Mast head is Large and the name of the Magazine is a well know and trust worthy company. I would trust this magazine due to how popular it is, and the content of the magazine is something I would want to read about and draws to my attention as the reader. For the target audience which would people who are fans of Rock/ Punk music, this would meet their needs as it's dark, mysterious, and not colourful and vibrant like other music magazines. Also it only focuses on the wrists who produce Rock music, so readers would not have to buy a magazine which has pop or hip hop music in aswell.

The Cover Photo has a band on, called Green Day, who are quite a well know and large, rock band. This applies to the target audience who will know who this band are, as they are into that genre of music. It also draws them in, because it is such a well known band, readers will want to know all about why they are in this weeks/months magazine.
The colour scheme is quite simple and kept though out the whole of the magazine. The black and white are effective as they don't clash, and are are opposite sides of the spectrum. The font is very easy to read, which is good as you want to be able to read and know what is in the magazine before buying it. The mast head font, meets the characteristics off the 'Rock'  type, and it's quite rough and in a way looks like someone has just sprayed painted it on. The layout is simple with only a few subheadings on the cover. Quarter of the page is taken up by four other pictures, as the magazine isa advertising that is has  a 'Poster Special' in this issue. The Main heading tell us a bit more about why the Band Green day are on the cover, and has a quick and brief description. The use of the word 'YOU' draws the reader in, espciaclally if they are a fan of Green day, as they would be keen to know more facts about the said band.

I think the Magazine could be improved by using perhaps a different colour though out the magazine, so maybe instead of a Black, a Dark red which symbolises Blood and Danger. A colour that would also make the cover really standout from other magazines, as to me I think the cover is quite dull and personally doesn't standout another for me, because o the colours, so a dark, but vibrant colour would perhaps et more people reading the magazine.

Semitoics-The barcode- The Implied mean sing of the barcode is to, let the reader know how much the magazine is, what issue number it is on, which can show just how successful the magazine. Without the Barcode, you would one, not even be able to buy the magazine, and two the reader would not be able to find out the cost of the magazine, nor if it is successful from the number of issues it has had prior.

The mast head- The mast head tell us what the name of the magazine is. It is large so that it stands out more. It's bright swell to catch the readers eye. Without the Mast head being large and bright, many readers wouldn't pick it up due to it looking rather dull and boring, or it wouldn't catch their eye.

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