First Draft of Magazine Front Cover

 

This is a rough draft of what my ideal front cover would look like. 

I used V!ntage as the title because the music magazine is based on Indie/Rock and that style of music is seen as different and 'vintage' makes the magazine seem a high quality due to vintage accessories generally being expensive. I changed the wording slightly by putting an exclammation mark where the letter 'i' should be. This makes the magazine appear less formal and slightly rebellious and this way the target audience will be reached because teenagers like to think they too are modern and this fits in with the Indie/Rock genre as they want to seem like they don't abide by any rules.

The image of the artist on the front takes up the entire background and the text is on top. I would essentially like the artist to cover a part of the title as this is what I have seen other magazines such as Kerrang! do and it makes the magazine look as if regular buyers don't need to see the whole title to know which one it is and it will also look professional and like its been running for many years to new audiences.

The strap line I have used is - UK's most obscure music. This is because the audience that wants to read this magazine don't always want to listen to music that everybody else listens to, so by using words such as 'obscure' it conveys that the magazine has music that is unknown to anyone who doesn't read it and makes the readers feel unique, which will make the continue to purchase future issues.

The colour of the text I chose is orange because it stands out against the background image. Also, being an Indie/Rock magazine, it has to appear 'different' to the usual Pop genre styles so by using bold colours like white it styles the genre before the music inside is even known. The orange text is a pull quote from an artist and I have used a different colour to show this because all the text in white is giving information about stories inside or events so by using this colour it doesn't just flow in with what the other parts say. The image on the front is of the person who is being interviewed inside and this may attract other audiences who weren't initially the target audience but are fans of the artist to buy the magazine and this will hopefully encourage them to buy future issues and gaining the magazine a wider audience.

For my final magazine front cover, I would like to have a Sans Serif font that better suits the genre and style of the magazine and perhaps have other images around the sides to show different things within the magazine, which will make the front look more interesting.