Music Magazine Front Cover

This is my 1st hand drawn designs of my front cover they are very basic but are giving me ideas of what layouts look good and what image I could possibly use for my final magazine cover.

This is my 1st draft on the computer it is very basic but shows the basic layout of my music magazine idea.

This is my final draft on the computer of my music magazine cover, it shows the title, sell line, cover lines and the basic image however I have not added colour but the idea and layout of the magazine can be seen threw this draft. I like the idea of the image and think it will be a success.  

This is the image I will use for my front cover as it features a music artist and him playing a instrument in which i wanted for my target audience as guitars can be seen as indie/rock. For my final image for the magazine I will cut around this image on macromedia fireworks.

This is my layout of my magazine cover. It features the image on the left hand side with the magazine name on the top next to the barcode. The text will be situated around the image on the right hand side and along the bottom of the magazine cover.

This is my final magazine cover. The image is edited to in which the background is not visible and the subject and the guitar have been cut around to fit perfectly. This appeals to the audience as I have not put too many cover lines or information, also by displaying a solo artist as the main image. The title is displayed in a relevant place ( the top ) as this enables to audience to recognise the magazine name easily and quickly. I have a bar code at the top right of my magazine to increase the appearance to the audience and making it look more realistic and like a real magazine. I have chosen to keep a colour scheme in which doesn't include too many colours as it helps make the magazine look more professional and realistic to a audience. One of my cover lines at the bottom is in read as I want it to stand out as it is a competition in which many people for the audience may be interested and want to win this "fantastic" prize.

Feedback

My contents page received very good feedback from my target audience. They said they really like the cover and most of them credited the image mainly saying it was the best thing about the cover saying it was cut out good and that it was positioned very well. Some negative comments came about not having a sell line, however some said they liked my magazine name in  which was good to here. One of my friends said they really thought it was good having a bar code on the cover as it made it look much more realistic. They also liked the colour scheme. In total my music magazine cover received extremely good feedback and was a great success.