Ammended & Finished Front cover

This is my final draft of the music magazine front cover:

I enlarged the masthead for a more conventional magazine style. I also got rid of the pull quote and replaced it. This was all because i felt it had more of a poster feel to it than a magazine front cover.

This is my second draft of the magazine front cover:

I changed the colour scheme to match the rest of the magazines image.

The edges surrounded this would be cut off in printing. so i have moved everything in slightly.

First draft

Mind Map

Selected Draft and Detailed Draft

Front cover free hand Drafts

Straight away the target auidence for this article is established by the main image of Shakira, then the mast head provides the idealogy, the information, that shakira is hard at work in the studios to create new material, a revelation that would be pleasing to the shakira fans, she is represented as fierce and determined, almost animalistic in her approach to her work shown by the quotation.

Institution - Q magazine

Kerrang Double Page Spread

As an alternative Press Double page spread was difficult to find i used a similair magazine, Kerrang. The mast head is a clear promotion for the band My Chemical Romance and connotates that the band are at their peak, performance wise, the main image shows the front man on stage on tour, surrounded by the sub images confirming the idealogy, that the band are doing well on tour and that they are promoting it for the fans. The strapline 'World Exclusive' Means that the target audience (fans of the band) wont get this information anywhere else, a key selling point.

LIIAR - Double Page Spread, NME

The main image, The Black Eyed Peas, is the most eye catching part of the spread, its automatically provides the target audience, fans of the band, it represents the band as very modern, trendt and contempory, wearing stylish clothing and uses simple effective colours to make them stand out. NME is the institution and the ideaology is to give information on the bands front man Will.I.Am as he is the most prominant figure and the article title cleverly used his name 'will' as a question.

More work to be uploaded

The scanned rough drafts are on my home computer, having used my own scanner, ill upload them tonight. and finish the LIIAR evaluations.

i also had taken this shot, the two i thought i would get the most out of, i think this has a sense of mystery due to the turned back and that it would fit well on a music magazine.

This is a shot i had previously taken, i belive the pose is edgy and has a sense of cockyness i think is needed for a musician, especially one in alternative rock.