Completed Project: Front Cover

This is my completed cover for my magazine. I like the colours that are used because they can represent the target audience which is female, so the pinks are appropriate to it. I also like the photo on the cover because I think it looks really professional, it is a close up shot because I wanted it to focus on her face so the it would stand out on the page and to the reader. The masthead can draw readers in because when they are in the magazine racks in shops the cover isnt always shown to I put something catchy at the top of the magazine to draw my target audience in. They would see it and think about the festival and it would make them read through the magazine to see how they could win. I used pink once on the cover to make it bold on the page, it is my main article and so the reader would instantly see that and read it, I decided to put a text grab there aswell to give them an insight to the article before reading it, it makes the reader intrigued to read on. I think my title is appropriate because it makes the reader think that the magazine is going to be about backstage at concerts and festivals and they would be getting information that no other magazine would have which adds originality to it and makes it unique to other music magazines out there. I think to make my magazine front cover more effective I could have maybe included a bit more information to it by arranging my photograph differently to add information around the sides without making it look too full. I could have also edited it so i cut her body out of the image and then placed it back on the same background to make her head come over the title this would make it look 3D and like the person on the cover is more important than seeing the name of the magazine.