Front cover sketches

Design 1.

For my first design the colour scheme will be white, pink and black. I placed the masthead at the top of the page in the centre and the website underneath on the right hand side of the page in line with the masthead. As the image of the artist/celebrity plays a big part in selling the magazine the image is a close up to the right of the page up taking up most of the page. The main coverline starting down the left hand side of the page and then the rest overlapping the image at the bottom centre of the page. In the space between the main coverline and the image will be the a few coverlines and a pug towards the top of the page.


Design 2.

For my second design the colour scheme will be the same: white, pink and black. I still placed the masthead in the centre top of the page this time underneath in the right putting the date of the magazine and the website on the left of the page. The image will be a girl that will be dressed and posed to attract my target audince. It will be a long shot so you can see everything she is wearing i also want the model to be holding a microphone as it is a music magazine and this will reinforce this to the audience. The main coverline will be overlapping the main image however at the bottom of the page so it will not be covering alot of it this is something i have noticed in magazines. The main coverline will also be diagonal. I like the idea of using left to right column alignment for my front cover as that is a convention. So, to the left and eight side of the main image will be coverlines and a few smaller pictures that will match the smaller coverlines. I have also placed a barcode on the right side of the page and just above the main coverline i have included a pug. A good front cover layout is important as it needs to attract your audience to pick up your magazine and buy it. I really like the layout of this design and this it would attract people to buy my magazine.

Design 3.

Continuing with the same colour scheme i made a few changes compared to the other two designs. Instead of having the masthead in the centre of the page i placed it in the left hand third of the page with a box around it just like Q magazine does. This is a good idea as when all the magazines are in a shop overlapping each other you will see the title more as it is on the left side of the page. The image will be a long shot on the right hand side of the page so its slots in beside the masthead. The model will still be wearing the same clothes from the other designs and also will have a microphone. So my audience will be able to associate my music magazine specifically as a music magazine. I placed the main coverline to the left of the main image and the barcode at the bottom of the page. Smaller coverline and a couple of images i placed under the masthead inline with it. This layout the page is kind of split in 2 with all the writing down the left side and the main image of the right side no text overlapping so the image is the main focus.