2. • I started off with my
masthead. I chose a font
from dafont.com and I
decided to choose Music
Matters but abbreviated it to
MM. I use the program
Photoshop and use the
bucket tool to filled in the
colour. I wanted it red
because will stand out on my
front cover. Placing in
InDesign made my masthead
very pixelated which wasn’t
good because it would look
unprofessional. I then had to
think of a different
masthead.
3. • I decided to use CURVE as my
masthead because it well-rounded
and edgy. As I said before when
using dafont.com fonts, it
becomes pixelated so I just used
dafont.com as a platform of ideas.
I found one which I thought went My own design
well with my magazine called
Stenha. I then went on Mircosoft
Word used chose a simple bold
font and used blank textboxes to
cut out the letters. It was a long
processes but I thought it was
inventive and made my magazine
original. From dafont.com
4. • Now I have an idea of my
masthead, I thought about
the image I was going to
use for my front cover. I
chose this one because she
looks welcoming and open-
hearted. I decided to keep
the background to show
she lives in natural
surrounding and now fake
celebrity world. It also
shows she is one of us and
she is no different. She is
looking directly to the
reader which gives the
magazine a personal touch.
5. • Going back to the
masthead, I wanted to
challenge conventions by
adding a 3 dimension effect
to it. I didn’t know what
colour I wanted to use, I
first considered using white
against black because they
contrast nicely but found
that it was too heavy. I then
thought about grey
because grey is the middle
tone of black and white. I
put white against grey and
it complimented very well
and the grey wasn’t too
strong/dark as black.
6. • After sorting out about my
masthead and main image,
I then started adding in the
sub-headings of my front
cover. In my research I
found that the number
tends to be bigger than the
writing to emphasise it
more. I followed
conventions by doing the
same. I also found that they
tend to stick to 3 colours
only, more than 3 colour
tends to look messy.
However I still thought it
didn’t look right.
7. • This is my final product
of my front cover. as
you can see I changed
the sub-headings. I
added more white to
make it stand out and.
• I was happy with my
front cover after I
made the final
decision. I thought it
challenged but also
followed conventions.
