FINAL CUT OF FRONT COVER

My main concern for my magazine cover was the fact that it was a tad too wide in comparison to my other pages. Taking this into consideration, I decided to crop it at the edges.

This is the final edit of my front cover.

Composition of Final Front Cover

I started by placing the final decided title ‘Sense’ in the top centre of the cover, and added text that would be found frequently in music magazine covers i.e. artists names that relate to the genre, ‘top 10…/top 50…’, the name of the person on the cover in bold etc. I also added a barcode to create an effect of authenticity.



In the next phase, I completed adding all the necessary text to the front cover, to make the white space look as minimal as possible. Though I found that there was still a large white space visible (especially around the model). This led me to increase the size of my model, as seen in the image above.



In this edit, I simply changed the maroon colour (visible on my models beenie hat) of the text, seen on my previous edit, to the more dominant red colour, visible on my models crop top.

Second Photoshoot: Part 2

I looked through all of my images and decided on my favourite one; the image I believe would best portray the essence of my music magazine.

This is the picture I decided to manipulate, to use on my cover:

I chose this image, as her body language and facial expression works well together, giving a feeling of sensuality and high status.



I then opened the image onto Photoshop and manipulated the layers, it in order to produce a white background.



I then opened the image in an internet photo-editing website called ‘PicMonkey’ to sharpen it and add to an effect to it, which produced the image shown below.



As this caused the photo’s background colour to go from white to grey, I had to manipulate the layers once again to get it back to white.

 

After turning the background white again, I rotated the image so she was standing up straight. I decided to have the model standing straight, as I thought it looked strange having her standing at an angle. On top of this, my research didn’t support it.

This last image is the one I will use on my actual magazine cover.

 

Second Photoshoot: Part 1

In this photoshoot, I set myself a few aims. My first aim was to take more photos in general, to give myself a large range to choose from. A also set myself the aim of experimenting more with poses,though swifly moving from one to another, again, to give myself a greater range of photos, increasing my chances of finding a few with potential.

I also chose to do my second photoshoot on a white background, as I found it was common that R’n’B magazines had a plain colour (generally white) as a backdrop to the centralized model.
Here are some examples of this:
 

 

Font Research: Part 3

I then decided to experiment with colour further, into these different text thinknesses, to decide which would look the best, and most appropriate for my front cover:

In the end I decided to use gold; even though red and gold are both looked upon as unisex colours (as my magazine is not geared to one sex), gold depicts wealth and status, and I believe it adds a sense of prestige to my magazine.

First Photoshoot

I believe a positive to take from this photo-shoot, is the fact that i feel I have captured the essence portrayed in my mood board- I am pleased with my model's styling and attitude expressed in the pictures; it is the sort of thing I was attempting to go for and achieve.

Though on the other hand, I think the quality of these images have let me down, and I think a second photo-shoot (carrying the positives from this one) will help me to achieve the best photographs possible.