Front Cover plan and First Draft

This is a mock cover I made for the final front cover. I will use the results from my questionnaire to design the front cover. For example, one of the main colours would be blue as the participants of the questionnaire voted for blue as one of their favourite colours. Also, I would try and include a CD as a freebie along with the magazine. This is because the results from the questionnaire said the thing people like most on a magazine is a free CD. Finally, the music magazine genre will be rock music/alternative rock music as the results from the questionnaire suggest that this was the most likes genre.


This is the mock up of the front cover I ended up making. Since it is only a mock up/draft, there isn't too much detail. The mock up has given me a good idea of how I want my magazine to look. I think that the font I have chosen suits the genre of the music magazine. I will try and use these font styles throughout the front cover, contents page and double page spread. The font wasn't one that was suggested by the results of the questionnaire, I have used a different font than what was included in the questionnaire for the masthead and titles on the front cover, but I have used the font Blippo light sf for the smaller text. I have done this because most other magazines do this and also it helps make the titles stand out. I will probably do this in the contents page and possibly the double page spread. I was initially going to have the masthead in the middle of the page, but after looking at some other rock magazines and also some other types of magazines in general, most of the mastheads are at the top of the front page. This may be because when they are being sold in a shop, they will have other magazines in front of them, so the masthead would be covered if it was placed in the middle. I also know that I want the central image to either overlap or fall behind the masthead. Although the results from my questionnaire show that the participants favourite colour is blue, I think that with the font I have chosen to use, blue doesn't suit the font and black looks better, I may have to try and include a blue colour scheme somewhere else in the front cover, contents page or double page spread.

This is another draft I have done but added some pictures. These may not be the final pictures as I am struggling to organise them neatly and can't get them the way I would like. Also, I need to have a better background where I can use one font colour. Continuing, the size and dimensions of the images are wrong and I am unsure about how to fix this. From the previous draft, I have a good idea of what I want my magazine cover to look like, but I feel like I am struggling to achieve this. There are also some things I need to edit.