Front Cover Ideas

In this blog post I will be telling you about what we done in todays lesson.

Firstly, we found out what colours catch peoples eyes and what ones stand out more than any, this has helped me think about what colours and what style of font I want to use on my front cover for my music magazine, these are;

For the front cover the main house style colours will be, black, red and yellow. Black for the background as it will help the other font / text stand out more than any other coloured background, and also, the colour black suits my music magazine as I will be focusing on the music genre 'Rock'.

The masthead for my music magazine will be a style of font that looks like graffiti but is easy to read, it will be red with yellow on it, I think this will stand out on the black background and will also catch the eye of the targeted audience, along side suiting the house style and the genre of music.

These are 2 images of 2 different Rock magazines we used as an example. The 'Kerrang!' magazine uses a lot of bright colours, such as a blue background with a white masthead which is overlapped by the main image of Dave Grohl (Lead singer for the band Foo Fighters), this magazine cover is suitable for the music genre because of the main image in my opinion, this is because the main image is the lead singer of Foo Fighters, they are a rock band that are always quite amusing and happy with cheerful type of music which suits brighter colours.

This second image is an image of the rock magazine 'Classic Rock', this uses a few dull colours such as beige and grey, these suit the style of rock they are using and suits the magazine as a whole, this is because of what the masthead insinuates. It insinuates that "Classic" 'Rock's' main fans / listeners are older, this is because to young people Classic Rock is old rock and nothing of it is really new, so therefor the majority of their listeners will be a little bit older, but to them its not what is seen as Old Rock, its just normal Rock, i know this because on the masthead the masthead reads 'Classic Rock' the 'Classic' is rather small but the 'Rock' is huge. This magazine doesn't have many eye catching features since it is just plain and dull with no main image, so their isn't much to view, but because of this is stands out from other music magazines.