Template for the front cover

This is a template for the front cover on my music magazine. The font is currently black, I think it stands out and contrast well with the red background however I think it would look better without the white background around the writing. I have chosen to use one main image on my front cover and use several over images on my contents page and double page spread. I am going to take my picture on a plain white background so I can edit a colour around it if I need to although most of the music magazines I researched had white or grey backgrounds. The colour scheme that my target audience chose was Red, White and Black so I need to make sure that I include these colours. The artist name needs to be a vibrant colour so it stands out to the audience and makes them buy the magazine.

Final font for my front cover

After looking back to the previous fonts that I had selected, I decided that none of them fitted in with the R&B genre this was because they were not bold and harsh enough. I am still undecided on what colour I want the font to be but what ever I chose it needs to be bright and eye catching.




Once I had decided on the font I was going to use, I added a faded affect to make it stand out even more and not look like a dull normal font.

Fonts for the mainheading

I chose to get a different variety of styles of writing as I couldn't decided what one I preferred. After looking back to my questionnaire analysis the most popular style of writing was bold and harsh so I will consider this when making my final decision on the font. I also need to make sure that the writing is easy to read and stands out from the other magazines.

I also need to decide what the colour of my font is going to be, either red, black or white. The background of my magazine is going to be white so the font will be red or black which are bright colours that stand out.

My favourite fonts are the fourth one and the last one although the fourth one is bold and harsh which was the most popular answer on my questionnaire.

Layout for photoshot

The location of my music magazine will be in the photography room as it has a very simple plain white background and once I have taken my photo I can edit a background in if I need to or keep it white like 'VIBE'.

My model for my music magazine is going to be a male, he is roughly 6ft and comes from London. He has curly hair with green colour eyes. He has a small built body which would fit in well with my genre. I have chosen to use the genre R&B therefore I want my model to be wearing a coat with a silver or gold chain round their neck with jeans and blazers (trainers) to portray that they are a rapper.

The positioning of my model would be direct address to the camera with serious facial expressions. After looking at several different R&B music magazines all the artist on the front cover have serious facial expression or seductive facial expressions.

Picture of my model -