Front Cover Analysis The main image on the cover of my magazine was taken with inspiration from Billboard magazine. The reason I chose to do a more posed and less natural shot was for many reasons.I like the way it challenges the normal conversion of a music magazine. The brightness of the shot is to reflect the age of the target audience, this being young teens.

The strap lines uses two very bold and contrasting colours which draws attention to them. Not only does it help promote our product as it is the magazine website it helps show that’s this is a modern company which uses many forms of technology .

The other smaller images give us a preview as to what you will find inside. Because this magazine if for teens ,normally images would stand out more then just text so here for example I have added an amp to bring out this cover line.

This mast head jumps out of the page because of fact that the text is 3D and there are two different colour which help create the illusion

The quote gives a preview of what is to come inside. When you see this it makes you want to read more because you are drawn in by this

As you can see I have repeatedly used the colour gold. This not only draws attention to the magazine as it is not used to much in music magazines, but it also can relate to my audience because it

The costume represents the popular fashion in the music industry which is one of the most important ways to sell an artist .Here is an example of a real music magazine and how the costume can help promote an artist.

I got the idea of using the bright colour to attract audience

I included these small icons indication the different sites that we are on (e.g.: twitter, apps). This is to again show the different forms of technology that we use.

Again the background image uses bright colours however I made is more transparent because I wanted the text to be bold. Because I didn’t want the magazine to give of a young vibe so I kept the colour of the writing very plain.

The font I used was best suited as it helps the bring out the fact that this is a music magazine. I kept the font quite small but very bold because it fits a lot better.

The layout is simple, I chose to list the pages and categorized then using different subheadings . Again I didn’t want to include too much text because of the fact that to much text would not attract the right audience