This is my first attempt at designing my music magazine front cover. As you can see, I slightly changed the ideology of magazine by getting inspiration from glossy fashion magazines such as Vogue. My thinking behind this stemmed from the results I got from my questionnaire which suggested I design a whole new magazine. I knew from my research that most magazine focused on bright bold colours with lots of information being thrown at the reader on the front cover.

So, these photos were part of the inspiration for my front cover:









I took my picture and increased the saturation of the girls dress to make the red colour really stand out. This red then became the primary colour for my cover. I tried to match closely the exact same shade with all my red font and particularly the BLONDIE sign which I got by taking a picture of the title of a Blondie CD and photo shopped to get it on its own.

I then used photo shop to add a title and the text, which was a very complicated job as I did each small bit of text separately. Of course, this was better in the long run as it meant I could move each bit round easily.

However, after spending many difficult hours working on this cover, I realised that in fact, it didn't look professional at all. The picture was too dark as I hadn't used natural light and, to be honest, my model wasn't posing in the right way to give the impression of sophistication that I wanted.


Another thing that was wrong was the fact that, in trying to keep it looking clean and simple, like the Vogue and Elle covers, I actually ended up making it look like my prelimanary piece of coursework, which in turn showed that I hadn't moved on in ability from the beginnning of the year.