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.

Analysing 4 music magazine covers

In this blog post I will be doing 4 short analysis of 4 different music magazines, only stating why they're suitable for their targeted audience and how they stand out (If they're eye catchy).

This first magazine is extremely good for a few reasons such as; it suits its targeted audience perfectly as the band on the cover "Arctic Monkeys" mainly focus on the genre of music 'Indie'/'Classical Rock', and the front cover of the magazine suits this as it is a sort of laid back cover, their isn't much going on, on the cover, so its not hectic and with the easy colours of white and yellow makes the cover look slightly relaxing as those colours connote something thats soothing. Also what helps this point is the main image, the way the band members are just looking into the camera, not posing, it connotes to me that they know they're getting a photo taken but they're just being plain, laid back people which suits 

their genre of music.

This second magazine cover is perfect for the targeted audience and its eye catching for reasons such as; the both of the named bands both focus on the genre of music 'Rock' and some other sub genres of this genre such as 'Light Rock' and 'Heavy Rock'. The cover of this magazine really suits this genre as the genre 'Rock' has always been mainly a type of music that involves a lot of shouting with strong words and is always hectic, this cover shows that as it has a lot going on, on the front cover which connotes something 'hectic'. The main image could of been better but its still slightly suitable as the man on the left looks quite aggressive which really suits the genre of music that the band focuses on. But Corey Taylor (The man on the right) looks to laid back to be on the front cover of a major rock magazine.

This third magazine cover is a magazine that focuses on the genre of music 'Metal', the band on the cover is called 'Slipknot' they focus on the music genre 'Metal' and some sub genres of that, they also focus on the genre 'Rock'. The magazine cover really suits this genre of music since the front cover colours are mainly black and red which connote danger and something hectic, another thing that connotes something being hectic within the cover is the fact that there is a lot going on, on the cover its self. This is also extremely eye catchy which helps sell the product and attracts the attention of the targeted audience.

This fourth, last magazine cover I will be analysing in this blogpost is a magazine that focuses on mainly the music genre 'Classic Rock'. The magazine successfully shows this by their main images, they also don't put a lot of stuff on the magazine so it looks calm, the main image on this magazine in particular is perfect for the style / genre of music they focus on, this is because the man on the image looks relaxed and looks casual, this connotes something relaxing in my opinion. The colours on the magazine are also successful and suit the magazine since the colours are mainly white and grey, which connotes something calm. The use of buzz words on this music magazine are really use full since they still have the main colours of grey and white, these 'Buzz Words' are extremely eye catching. Overall this music magazine cover will attract the attention of the targeted audience and will be successful.

Analysis of a double page spread

This is my analysis of a double page spread.

Mock up of magazine cover

Mock up of my content page

Images used for a college magazine.

In this blog post i will be showing 4 images, stating what image I would use out of the 4 for a college magazine.

The first image :

I would use this over the other images since there
is room to add magazine codes and conventions,
the image is versatile and easily edited and
personally would get a good analysis.

The second image : I wouldn't use this image since there isn't a lot of room in the image to add
codes conventions, there is also not enough there
to show that it is a successful college and it also
looks slightly informal as their is a coat in the
background and the students look bored, therefor
this may not be eye catchy.












The third image : I would use this but i would use
the first image before this one, the reason why I
would use this image is because the image
contains a student that looks interested in his work, their is a mac computer which shows that
the sixth form takes care and takes into consideration the students work and grades since
their is good technology in the sixth form, this
could be eye catchy and their is space to add
codes and conventions around the student.

The forth image : I wouldn't use this image for
a college magazine since it is seriously informal
since their is a camera in front of one of the students for what ever reason, he's wearing an outdoor hat indoors which may connote no
respect and the students also look slightly bored.

Using Photoshop.

 These are a few screenshots of me using photoshop for the first time.

The first image is what i expect to see when i open photoshop.
The second is of me changing the size and making the image A4.
The third image is me adding a picture to photoshop.
The fourth image is me placing a background on the image.
The fifth image is me arranging the background to be behind the image.
The sixth image is me changing the background to another image.
I then placed a picture of a celebrity and made the image black and white, but made the lips stay red.