This is my first front cover. I have used this background image because most of the magazines that I saw had a medium/long shot of a single person who didn’t always have anything to do the magazine apart from settings the target audience who for this magazine should be young adults who like techno music. I have used the masthead that was most popular when I did my research and also have done the masthead colour green like my research also preferred. I then asked which colour that people would prefer for all of the other text and this was green too so that is why most of my magazine is green. In this magazine I will use all green because that is what my audience wanted. I have a small ad on the top left for a new club in Stoke called Lokes. I have put this in because most magazines have some kind of advertisement but this advertisement is better because it relates to the audience. I have put the preferred slogan ‘The Place for Techno!’ I the middle of the page because this is part of my layout design. On the bottom left I have a competition to win a car; I have this because in many magazines I see some kind of prize to be won. I have put my bar code on top right because it takes up a lot of the empty space there however the bar code is not usually there.
This is my magazine later. The largest change I have done is to move to barcode which I think was in an awkward spot and also made it a little smaller. Even so the barcode is in a better place, it now leaves a lot of empty space on the top right. I felt that my text was hard to read on the background so I have put drop shadow on to make it easier to read. I have also put a glow around the image of the car just to make it stand out a little more. I have made the glow green again because I want to stay with the colour in this magazine.
This is my finished first front cover. I have changed the font of the text on the bottom right just to make it a little more interesting by adding another font. Both of these fonts now (not including the masthead font) are preferred as my research shows, so I am still doing what the audience wants. I have added a black outline to the slogan to make it easier to read and stand out more. Finally I have put an issue number and the date next to the barcode as this is in many magazines.
