Final Magazine

How to improve contents and front cover

The purpose of this blog post was to see how if there was a link between the contents and the front cover. I can see that there isn't much relation as the front cover seems more organized then the contents page and the some of the images in the contents page doesn't really have a relation to the music genre rock. Furthermore the background doesn't have a link to the front cover. Finally on the front cover the buzz section highlighted by a red star looks unprofessional. I will use this information to enforce improvements.

Edited image of artist with and without the background

 

The purpose of this post was to see whether the image suited the magazine with or without a background. I came to the conclusion that the picture without the background looked better.

Chosen Font

The reason why I have chossen the font Baskerville Old Face is because I found it to be suitable for this rock magazine due to its sharp curves making it look gothic. 

Final drafts

Front cover edit #3

Here I have created a a background that is gritty and smoky to create a hell theme. The background has a link with the artist's arm being on fire. However, I don't like this outcome.

Front cover edit #2

Here I have used a different gritty background which has a floral design on it this background has an intertexual reference to an old wallpaper of an house. This links with th artists past. The colour of the backgound has a cool green wash this contrasts with the warm colours of the fire. Furthemore, I have added more puffs and rearanged them in a format that is more magazine like and I enlarged the image to make the artist look more intimidating.