Front cover construction

Here I have completed further changes to my front cover - this powerpoint is describing the changes and additions I have made and why I have made them. 

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Contents page research 

After much research on music magazine contents pages I gathered a lot of information, tips and inspiration which I would like to use when designing my contents page. Here are my findings;

Columns are very important on a contents page and so I must be able to follow a common construction of columns - the number of columns I wish to have and the spacing and positioning of those columns.

Furthermore, the page numbers on certain magazines are displayed quite differently to the font on the page - the use of different colours is common. From my research I have also found that so magazine chose to use shapes with page numbers within.

Font is also a factor I have found interesting while researching music magazine contents pages. I found two different examples of contents pages from two different music magazines; Q and NME. These magazine use very different fonts. Also, the masthead of the page is different as well.

Q magazine's contents page masthead is Q Contents while NME's masthead is NME THIS WEEK. I have found this interesting and so I want to experiment with the masthead of my contents page as Ii had originally believed the contents page must state CONTENTS as the heading. 

Draft - front cover

This is my first draft of the front cover.

I plan to make alot of changes to this draft as I feel the image, font and colour scheme I used does not show the professionalism of the magazine and so I will further research music magazine front covers to gain more inspiration.

The main colours within this draft are; white, black and red - I'm not too keen with using these colours together as I feel the give the magazine a dark and gothic feel which is not the kind of music genre or target audience I planned to aim this magazine at. 

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I am deeply inspired by this magazine front cover - I feel the colour since blends well and attracts readers. The dark image is very attractive to me and I feel that the use of the eye contact is very good. I would like to recreate this magazine look on my front cover.

Also, I want to include a puff on my front cover - I have been researching puff's which can appear on a magazine front cover. I like how different shapes can be used for any puff and so I can design my own puff on photoshop using the different shapes. 

Front cover construction work

From this image you can see that I used photoshop to edit the image to a black and white scale - as previously planned in my planning. I also used the text tool on photoshop to add the masthead; the font here is KKKK. I chosen this font as I feel it is fun and goes with the black and white theme. 

Throughout the editing process of my front cover I played a lot with brightness, contrast and the different filters on photoshop. 

On this image I have added coverlines which I have copied from one of my flatplans. I like the layout of these coverlines however I do think many changes and additions to coverlines will be changed over the course of editing and producing the front cover. I went with the red masthead as it stands out against the dark background.