Magazine front cover 2

From my previous blog post, we can see how I am producing all of my magazine front covers using Adobe Fireworks. As I am starting to use the programme more and more, I am getting more used to it and feeling more confident in trying new things on it. Because of this reason, I wanted to make more than one magazine front cover to see if I can produce a variety of different professional looking magazine front covers to chose from when it comes to picking the final one.

Below is a few different versions of my second magazine front cover designs, where I have changed a few of the key components round, such as the masthead, the main image, the cover line, etc...

What I like about this design is how all of the colours start to blend together nicely, the use of the mise-en-scene(the coat) and the bubble with the incentive/anchorage text also the masthead, they all blend together nicely. The cover line stands out a lot which is the main aim to catch the readers attention of a new singer coming about. The only downside to this design is how much the black anchorage text blends in with my models hair because the text starts to disappear, therefore I would need to change the colour of this if I was to keep the same main image. One final thing I think that I should do is edit out the red eye on the model, this makes the magazine look very unprofessional and it ruins the image of the front cover as a whole.

On this design, I have made the improvements from the previous design above, I have edited the red eye out of the photo which had made a massive difference to such a small area of the main image. As well as this, I have changed the colour of the anchorage text to purple which is also part of the masthead on the heart on top of the 'i', therefore this all ties in together. However I do prefer to have the black writing, which was also my peers choice also, according to my survey, so from this I have gathered that I think I should choose a different main image which is suitable.

I have decided to completely swap the main image in this design and put in a medium long shot still from eye level. This main image has a bit more of a music look to it as my model is holding a hair brush as a microphone, which I believe really relates to the audience as some girls listen to music when they're getting ready, which getting ready involves using a hairbrush. I also changed the positions of the anchorage text, however to me, they look a bit lonely and out of place; so when designing the next version of my magazine, I think I will place the anchorage text back up the left side of the front cover. I really think this main image is effective and related to the music theme very much Following this, I moved the masthead around, placing it on the right hand side because when it was in the middle of the page, it covered up a bit of the models head.

On this design I have made my final changes. I changed the main image because I like this medium close up of Derrie because it gives the idea out that she is shocked so the audience must read it to find out the gossip inside of the magazine, however, I cant get the placing of the anchorage text in the right place so that it doesn't cover the models face, making it look odd but then trying to get it so the top of the front cover doesn't look bare; so I still need to find a way to get about this. Apart from that, the layout is the same because I think the bottom end of the magazine cover looks good and eye catching.


After making all of these changes to the same layout, my favourite and final design would be the first draft at the top of this blog post, despite the fact that the text blends into the image a bit, with a couple more changes to the text, perhaps making it bolder it would look just as good and stand out more. As well as this, I would go on to using the main image from the second draft I made, even though they are the same, this image has no red eye, because I edited that out, like this: