Screen grabs of magazine front page

 This is how my front cover originally looked like. I had to make some changes to fit the genre. The changes I made were the outfit the model was wearing. I had to chage that because the clothes were too dark for a pop magazine. I also changed the position of the model because you could see the stand she was holding and it didn't look right. I also changed the colors slightly to fit in with the questionnaire results.

 I used photoshop to create my front cover. I chose the purple background because the questionnare results said they liked the color purple. I found the front for the front page on the internet, I chose to use it because it looks like bubbles and that's the name of the magazine so it fitted well. I edited the picture to make it look lighter and enhance the features.

I added the coverlines and chose to make them orange because the models bow was orange and the target audience liked the color. I used yellow for the word exclusive to make it eye catching and to grab the audiences attention.

I added a band of color accross the bottom of the front page which would contain the artists name which would be included inside the magazine. I chose pink because the target audience like that color.

I added a barcode because every magazine has a barcode on the front page. I also added the price and date of the issue.

Finally I changed the name of the artists on the bottom strip because they were already on the front cover. I changed the size of the barcode because it was too big and I also changed the positioning of the words 'Candy Cane' because they looked better lower down the page. I also put the models head in front of the title because in many of the magazines I've looked at it was like that.

This couldnt be used as my final magazine front page because

the font for the title found on the internet was a jpeg file

and when printed out looked blurry and unproffesional

so I changed this.

FINISHED FRONT COVER

My final magazine front cover is this. I made a few changes which were

I shoertened the coverlines focusing on the artists names. I made the

botton strip smaller, made the barcode smaller and used a different font for the title

I added a glow effect on the title to make it more eye catching to the audience

and I also made the color yellow because from the audience research I found it a color

the target audience liked.I also moved the positioning statement and issue date

and price.