My draft front page

This is my front page for my music magazine. As this is the first page people look at and are attracted to, I wanted the picture to be large and to give away the theme and genre of my magazine which is urban/pop. I believe the boy band gives the impression that this magazine is pop and urban based. The problem with this picture is the boy band is at the bottom of the page. This would normally be fine, but apart from when my magazine is in magazine rack, you will only be able to see the top half of the page. To help make the top half of the page more attractive to attract more of an audience I decided to add an interesting colour scheme.

Usually, magazines have a certain colour scheme and stick to it especially on the front cover. Instead of using the normal colour scheme, I wanted to have a bit of change. I tried out lots of different colours but none of them really worked as all the attention was drawn to the bright colours of the hoodies the boy band are wearing. I tried out some of the effects photoshop had to offer, and I found the perfect tool for my problem. This tool allowed me to copy the colour from the hoodies and place it into the font. I am really happy with the colour scheme now, as the picture immediately attracts the eye and then you are drawn to the subtitles as they share the same colour to show they relate with each other.

I chose to have a lot of brick wall in the background of my picture because I believe it has a really good urban feel to it. This will make the audience become interested in not only the writing and picture on the page, but also the background which I think is important as it can capture the whole interest of the reader instead of just the important bits.

I wanted to keep the title short and snappy so it's easy to remember and catchy to say. I also had to make the title relevant to the rest of the magazine or else there is no point in having a title at all. I went for the title "M&F" as it's short, snappy and easy to remember. This stands for music and flow so it tells the audience what the magazine is about and what type of music it is for. I then picked some teenagers to come and evaluate my front cover and the most common piece of feedback was the misunderstanding of "M&F". Nobody knew what it meant and they thought it was irrelevant to the rest of the magazine. To prevent this, I put the meaning of the title in a smaller font underneath it so everyone can see what it stands for. I then got a different group of teenagers to evaluate it and nobody mentioned anything about the title.