Step 1 - As you can see I have chosen my photograph from the selection of images I took in my photo shoot and have placed it where I wanted to image to be placed along with my header. However after looking again at some other magazines which are being created and some other magazines of my genre and others and saw that the skyline was always above the header and was better suited above their than under it.
Step 2 - After my first step I looked over my cover and decided to enlarge the header and to place the main image lower on the page to make room for more text and to enlarge the type of text that I wanted to place on the cover. I have also added the skyline onto the top of the cover with text in, the text shows some of the band names which will be in the magazine and link to the contents page. I have also chosen to place the anchorage text on the image rather than to the side with the other sell lines, the reason for this is because I will be able to place more sell lines to the side if the anchorage text is not in the way. This type of thing is also done in many other magazines to show that importance of the main image and main artificial by using the words 'Exclusive Interview; shows that this magazine has facts and things which other magazines don't because the interview is 'exclusive'.
Step 3 - I have chosen to place the name of the band on top of the image but I wanted it in a different font rather than just the normal type which the rest of the sell lines are in. I have chosen to go for a font which I have also used on one of the posters I mocked up, 'Bleeding Cowboy'. As I liked the idea of the red and the black font I decided to try and overlap the two fonts to see if they would work together and if they looked better red on black or black on red. after a lot of thought I picked the font with black on red as I feel that it shows the name of the band better than it would if it was red on black. This text will go above the box with the words 'Exclusive Interview' on the image as well to show who the people in the image are and what the artificial is also about.
Step 4 - (While I was saving the images to my desktop on my laptop my laptop crashed leaving me with only a few of the images that I kept as I created my cover. So I have pointed to the sections that I am going to talk about in each step). As you can see in this step I have placed the 'New Dawn' title on image, it links in very well with the colours of the text and the text boxes around it. For example the image behind of the band members shows one of the members in a blue, red and white check shirt while the other is in a black, red and grey check shirt. This links in with the reasoning for the colours of the text which are placed above the images. With the images being highlighted well with the text above it brings out the red of the band showing that they are important and also ready to be big stars and not wanting to hide in the background, all of this under the mise en scene of the image and text linking.
I moved the original location of the 'puff' from being at the bottom of the page on the right to high on the right side next to the main image. The reason for this change is because of the fact that I feel it would capture the audiences eyes more than it would if it was located near the bottom. As this puff has a direct link to the main image I have chosen to place to close to the image to show the link. I have chosen to use a small + sign as my little image for my puff rather than a large image that could be located next to the text or even behind it backing up the text in a range of ways. The + sign, also known as a plus sign links to the word 'PLUS' which was the first word I used in the text for my puff adding to the effect of it being something extra, something that the audiences should be happy and existed about in a range of ways. I have chosen to use the colours, red (or a deep orange) and black, the reasoning behind this, and the reasoning behind why I drifted from keeping to the pink and white colours is because the red I feel stands out more and after trying to magazine with both of the colours I feel that the red and black complement each other more than the pink and white would if they were placed on this type of magazine cover.
Lastly after looking again at some of the other magazine covers which were being created and had been created by pass years I saw that some of them had a issue number for the magazine and also the date for when the magazine was being published. This links in with the magazine seeming more real and also that this magazine company is very popular as the numbers are already all the way up to 188.
Step 5 - (Please click on the words 'Step 5' to follow the link to my step 5 of my magazine cover).
As you can see I have added an extra sell line to the left hand side of the place of the anchorage to fill up the space and to inform the audience of more articles which are located inside the magazine. I have chosen to place the main words from the sell lines in a red/deep orange colour to show the importance of it next to the rest of the sell line which is just in black. the two middle sell lines I have included artists names and placed their names in this second colour because if a viewer saw an artists that they really liked they are more likely to purchase that magazine than they would if they just found only a few of the stories on offer interesting. For the other two sell lines located at the top and bottom of the line of sell lines I have chosen to place the words that are in the second colour also in capitals to show their importance even more. For example 'FREE' is a second coloured word and in capitals because of the fact that the word free, in any shape or form attracts people because of what it is advertising. Meaning that because it is large and attracts viewers eyes it will make viewers purchase the magazine more than they would if it wasn't in capitals.
Step 6 - This is the last step in creating my magazine cover. (Please click on the words 'Step 6' to follow the link to an image of my magazine cover finished fully). As you can see from the image I have finished with I have kept to the mock-up I created by placing the posters at the bottom of the page running along the bottom next to each other. However I have chosen to place a third poster at the bottom of the page to fill up a gap which I had created from moving up my sell lines, I am happy that i did this thou because I feel that because I have a difference in images, one being of another type of artist whom appears in the magazine and also in another of the sell lines and the other two posters of the main image band whom are the main articles on the double page spread. The posters being located next to the bottom sell line show the link as the bottom sell line talks of 'FREE posters inside!', by having these located next to each other it shows the types of posters which would be included and shows that there may be some more posters if the viewer was to purchase the magazine. I have added a bar code in the same spot where I picked when creating my mock-up, the only difference is that I felt that the bar code should be positioned to the side rather that straight as it needed more room and the bottom of the magazine didn't look as squashed and all moved together just to fill up some empty space.
However I then had an empty space behind the posters and the bar codes which was just a plain empty space, and so I placed a red and black bar along the bottom to just cover up the empty space and to show that the magazine cover was finished and ready to be 'purchased'.
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