Final Front Cover

This is my final design for the front cover of my magazine. as you can see I have tried to stick to my flat plan as much as possible. I have changed the main sell's font colour to yellow. this gave a much bigger impact and stood out more against a dark background. The brand logo is the same type face as in my flat plan. the only difference are the colours. Instead of using more traditional looking softer colours I decided to use more vivid and expressive colours to try and give this magazine more of a appealing look to younger audiences as well which is my aim. In addition to a more modern take on traditional conventions for a classical music magazine I have have included the text in the footer of the page "Don't be fooled my our new look - see inside" to reassure my elder, more stereotypical audience that there is still the same =, what you could say more tradition content and layout inside the magazine.

The photo I took and chose for my front cover is quite personal. The girl is looking straight into the lens which is a good technique for drawing people into looking further into the magazine. I asked her to hold her arm out. This makes it look like she is taking the photo herself, again giving it a more up close and personal factor. This photo is also in blakcand white. It gives the magazine a more modern look and its very contrasting. Slightly similar to what you might have seen on the "Rolling Stone" magazine. I has relevance to the magazine because this photo links to the first main sell running down the left had margin of the page. However I would have tried to have a picture of motzart on the front. However there was a problem in that I could not get my own personal photo of Mozart so I had to make the most of the photos and the resources that were alvaliable to in the time frame I had to complete this project.

I like the main flash here. This is because it is more like a newspaper title, which gives a more traditional feel about the magazine already. The type face is 'Castellar' and I think it has a suitable relation to what the main flash it talking about, for example the classical era in which Mozart lived in.

For extra interest to the magazine, I mentioned a competition near the header. This is in a completely different colour to the rest of the page and is also bold and underlined so people can see it easier. I was going to have this near the top of the page but then it didn't look quite right. It looked better and more placed at the bottom of the page. at the bottom it fitted in with the grid lines I used to compose the page when laying everything out.

An important thing I have seen on other magazines is the website address on the front cover so I made sure I included this neatly at the footer of the page, where it is not attracting too much attention.