My Front Cover

This was the front cover that I designed as my new media product. My genre that I wanted to do was Rock. I did a big title 'Rock UK' so that any consumers would know what type of magazine it was and that it is specifically targeted at UK music. The main image I used was a recreation of an image I saw of a band on the Internet. I wanted them to have posed look but at the same time act natural. This is shown by the laid back way they are standing as well as the looks on their faces, Doing the image in black and white makes it look more professional as well as making them the main focal point of the magazine cover. At the bottom I wanted to add extra features that were in my magazine to try and draw in my target audience. Seeing people that they can relate to on the cover would make them more likely to pick up my magazine and read it. I added a free CD which stands out on the front cover as it is in bold writing and colours. This convention is used throughout many different magazines and is something that my target audience would want to get.

The colours that I chose are used throughout my whole magazine. I did a survey which was distributed to people who I thought fitted my target audience and got an idea of what colours they liked. This gave me an idea for which one to make the main colours in my magazine.