The document summarizes the design process for the front cover of a music magazine. Key elements included a white background for variety in color scheme and a fresh look. The masthead uses a rigid, bold, and masculine blue text for a cool and calm mood. The main artist image takes up most space as research showed similar genres focus on the artist. Additional details like issue number, website, and barcode were included to enhance authenticity and suggest an established, digitally savvy publication.

1. Music Magazine Front Cover
Breakdown

2. The use of a white background
leaves room for a more vary of
the colour scheme. Also white
creates a fresh and pure look for
the music magazine.
Adding a barcode
and price to add to
the authenticity

3. The masthead is a rigid
strong and bold text; very
masculine. The blue
connotes a cool, calm
mood. To make it stand out
against the background the
darker shape was placed
behind the masthead

4. The puff used to emphasise my magazine is place
underneath my masthead. “The first for exclusive grime
and hip hop”. The typography is sharp yet slanted; it is
edgy and fresh like the magazine

5. The main sell line of the artist takes up
the majority of the space on the front
cover. As stated before the examples
of similar genres to my genre
dedicated most of the magazine front
cover to them.

6. To keep with the cover scheme
of the magazine another layer
of similar lettering was placed
over the original in the same
colour as the masthead. The
typography used is square and
rigid but also thick. the font is
not in line so creates a fun
rebellious vibe to the magazine
that appeals to the

7. The image on the left is the
first image take while the
right is the second used in
the final production. The
difference in both the clarity
and the framing of the image
can be seen. Also the
costume (The Pac-man t-
shirt) which has direct
correlation to the main cover
line. Also when cropped the
green glow from the green
screen behind the first image
is no longer a problem.
However there are elements
of the first image that are
much better than the second
such as the pose; it looks
more joyful that the second
but overall the second image
better presented the genre
and the main cover line

8. The cropped main image
was taken and inserted onto
the front cover. I used the
magic wand tool to easily
remove the white
background. Afterward
zooming in on the photo the
eraser was used to neaten
the edges of the image so it
did not look so fussy around
the edges. Finally I
brightened the image and
edited its hue and
saturation by filtering in
more blue to add a slight
blue light onto the image.

9. The additional cover lines were hen
added to the front cover. From the
research done before hand music
magazines of a similar genre dedicate
the whole front cover to mainly the
artist with little additional cover lines
so I used a similar approach.

10. I wanted this music
magazine to have a long
running fan base. To make
this look as though it did I
added to the feature, “50th
Issue”. This suggests the
magazine is not only long
running but has a large fan
base.

11. As their was not as many
additional cover lines I used a
website ad to show that the
magazine has more to offer. Also
it suggest that it is up-to-date
with the new technologies as it
provides a website source

12. Another small detail to ad to the authenticity
and polished look of the magazine.

13. The Finished Product