Front Cover Print Screens

Sandeep Shoker

Originally as shown in my Front Cover mock up, I wanted to place the main image in the centre of the page, I had decided to put the masthead at the top making it quite large. I had chosen to use a masthead at the top of the page and have my cover lines as images and text placed on the left hand side. In the mock up I had made the price, issue number and bar code quite large as well as the text box at the bottom right hand corner. I had decided to place the word Rythmix at the top of the image at a slant in the right hand corner. I had initially designed my magazine to have a large text box at the bottom of the page to advertise the competition and the freebies that come with the magazine.

However, once I began to make my front cover I decided to change a lot of what I had first thought the GoPoP front cover would look like. To begin with I kept the header at the top of the page the same as what I had planned; however, I made the font for Rythmix much bigger than the rest of text. Also, I decided to place the masthead in the top left corner instead on the right, this is because it stands out more on the left hand side. I decided to keep my cover lines on the left hand side towards the bottom of the magazine. Also, the colour scheme I have chosen is pinks, orange and red. This is because these are bright colours which relate to the Pop genre a lot. I decided to change the text box at the bottom of the page in the right hand corner, to a circle shape to make it stand out more to advertise the posters that come with the magazine. I changed this from the freebies to posters as this suited the typical stereotypes of a Pop music magazine.

Whilst I was in the process of making the front cover, I added in more images and text to make the magazine look ‘fuller’ which included a lot of information, text and imagery. I decided to add a brightness and contrast layer to the main image in order to make it stand out more and look more interested to appeal to the target audience and pull them in.

After I had altered and changed my front cover this is what it looked like.

I added in the cover lines, bar code, issue number and price on the left hand side. I made the text clearer to read and more colourful to ensure it stood out amongst the other text and images.

I also, decided to change the text for ‘Rythmix’ to more of a rigid and bold type of text, I also added an effect to the text in order to make it stand out more.

I changed the cover line of ‘Then latest gossip on all the new artists hitting the music scene’ to ‘Get the latest gos’ on GoPoP’