Like my previous photos, I still wanted there to be an element of bright, bold colours, preferably red and so i had my model wear a red shirt. But this is where the similarities with my previous cover ended. In this one, I had my model placed in the bottom right corner because I wanted him to take up more space and not be so symmetrical, like my last model. Also, I didn't stick to a plain simple background like before. Although my ideology for my magazine is still to make like the 'creme-De-la-creme' of music mags, I found that not many glossy fashion magazine didn't have some sort of background. I used a brick wall because I don't think you can go wrong with them. They add enough texture and shades to be interesting whilst still keeping a balanced background for the main subject of the photo.
I then started adding text. Although, on my original sketch I wanted quite a lot of different sub headings, I decided through more research into existing magazines that I should be careful with the amount of text I put on my cover as it is hard to get the balance right. When I started to put my text on I decided to play around with different fonts and see what came out of it. My title font was my best feature. It kept the classic feel, which was crucial to the ideology of my magazine, but had a modern twist with the bold, rounded font of the "The". Also, to contrast with the very classic look, I had the words "the 80's issue" in stencil writing. This was in keeping with the 80's motif while also making the magazine look modern.
This was my first go:
The best thing about my first draft was the placing of the picture on the page. I made it bleed to the edge to give a typical music magazine look, using the brick wall as a solid background. The text and font was good on this draft, although I felt there was something missing. So, on my second go, I tried to rectify these mistakes.
As you can see, there were not too many changes. Upon completing my first draft, I printed it and found that the whole thing was too dark and the model looked quite washed out. Obviously this was not the look I was going for and so I enhanced the colour of the whole page in my second draft. I also changed certain other elements, for example the font, because I didn't think my first draft had enough variety and this made it look unprofessional. So, I changed the fonts of the smaller headlines from being all corbel regular to being a mixture of fonts, styles and sizes. After looking at the sort of magazines that I was basing mine on, I found that they had a lot of different headlines and tag lines, but all very separated so there were only one or two words with each. So, I changed my line "We talk to T.V's SHH!" to "SHH! tells all..." I found that this gave a more simplistic effect to my magazine. Also, as I had made the colour of my magazine brighter, I found I needed to change the colour of a few of the words to make them stand out against the model's clothes. So, I simply changed the start of some headlines to white which also added a cohesive colour scheme of red, blue and white.
The last difference between my two drafts is that I added a some other small things to the cover to increase the profession look of it. I added in tag lines along the top and bottom, a bar code and an issue number, date and price. Although these were small aspects, they really added to the believability of my magazine.
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