Magazine Front Cover

This is my final front cover of my magazine. I have used the feedback I got about my magazine cover to change some parts in order to improve it. The improvements I have made from the feedback I received was to re-shape the main image to make it slightly larger as it looked squashed, move the article title regarding the pop star on the magazine cover away from the others to set it apart and change the font and colour of her name to make it different from the other article titles. I re sized the barcode to make it smaller as I was told it was too big and took up too much room in the bottom right corner. I have also repositioned some of the article titles and added another to make more use of the space to create a good layout. I made the masthead slightly bigger and moved it into the centre a little bit more and changed the position of the date and issue number to the top right of the page as this space was blank and looked empty where in my research of pop magazines I found that they are busy and use most of the space on the page. I have altered my original plans by changing the position of the main image and the article titles. I have used a colour scheme of pink, some purple, black, white and a variation of greys. I had planned on mainly using a variety of pinks and purples but found that the colours I have chosen look better on the cover with the pink background and one purple article title. I have followed the conventions of a magazine cover by putting the masthead at the top of the magazine, I also put the barcode in one of the bottom corners of the magazine again this is a magazine convention. I used one main image for the cover as I saw this done on the magazine covers I looked at during my research, I have decided to put my main image in the centre of the magazine rather than to the side like I had originally planned as all of the magazines I looked at during my research has the main image positioned in the centre of the cover. I have followed magazine conventions by having some of the main magazine articles on the cover. I have put the article titles in a large bold sans serif font with the dark variation of grey colours against the light pink background so that they can be seen clearly and to attract readers to look at and read the magazine. It was suggested in my questionnaire response to use magazine conventions but do a few things differently so did this for the layout and size of the magazine article titles. During my research I saw that the article titles on the magazine covers were a variety of sizes and fonts but mainly small, to make my magazine different I chose to make all of my articles titles large and in the same font in variations of grey apart from the article title containing the name of the pop star on the front of the magazine where I used a different serif font in a dark purple to set it apart from the others. All of the article titles are positioned along the right side of the main image apart from the article title about the pop star on the magazine cover as this is positioned on the left side to also set it apart from the others. I have used this style and positioning for my article titles so that they can be read clearly and attracts the reader to look at and read the magazine, I also did this to make my magazine look different to others. Although it wasn't one of the original magazines I looked at during my magazine research I saw that the article title layout on some of the billboard magazines are positioned either side of the main image and in bold sans serif font, I liked this and like that it looked different to other magazines so I used this technique for magazine cover. I have made my magazine cover suitable for my target audience of teenage girls and the pop genre by using the light pink/peach background to make the magazine cover stand out, these are the colours I chose for my magazine colour scheme as they are colours associated with pop as they are bright and a slightly pastel. They are suitable for my target audience of teenage girls as I have used a pink background with both gradient grey text and the model I have used is a teenage girl who fits into the target audience.