My Front Cover Draft

Development of my final front cover

This post shows my first draft front cover to my final front cover and the progress that the magazine has made. I have changed the image to something more appropriate and I have tried out different combinations of colour to see what works best. I have changed my cover lines so that they are more appealing to my target audience and chosen genre. The fonts I have used vary from Gill Sans MT, Gill Sans MT Condensed and Harabara Mais Demo. I have created a pug using the fireworks tools that shows the Platinum readers what they can win inside the magazine. The anchorage text has been kerned to create bigger spaces inbetween the letters to create emphasis on the text. The masthead has had a drop shadow affect which makes it stand out.

Leading and Kerning

Kerning is a process used in Media where you can change the amount of space between the letters and words in a title. This means that you can bring them closer together or further apart. This can be done so that you can fit more onto the page by bringing them closer or it can create a sense of meaning and space if they are distanced further apart.

Here is an example of a word that
has had kerning applied to it.

Leading is the amount of space between the text vertically. This is important because it makes the text legible and it adds effect to the writing. 

Photo Editing

Here are 2 images that I have edited using BeFunky. I have changed effects such as the contrast, brightness and saturation, etc.

Photos

These are a selection of my 5 best photos. I have selected these because I feel like the lighting and the pose is better than in my other pictures. I feel like these pictures are similar to the front cover image on Billboard Magazine because the background is plain and the subject is looking into the camera. 

Nov/Dec Feedback

Make up research

Here are a selection of images that I have found online that show celebrities with and without make up on. A lot of them look very different therefore, for my magazine, I am going to give my model more natural make up, without loads of blusher and eye make up. This will follow the conventions of Billboard magazine as their artists are mostly given natural make up and nothing too bold such as bright lipstick. Make up is used on artists for the magazine so that they look more attractive and appealing to the audience. It can make the audience feel like the celebrity is their aspiration if they look really nice on the front cover of a magazine.