Magazine Front Cover Improvements

Magazine Draft

Main Image

This is the image I will use as my front cover, it fits with the convention of looking straight at the front, maintaining contact with the audience, I also like the background colour, so I may leave that as it is because I'm not someone who finds a whole load of vibrant colours appearing aesthetically pleasing. Moreover, with the intended audience I have, I doubt they would also. It is also hard to attain a professional look with lots of bright colours.

I chose this image above other ones because I believe it looked the most serious and professional. The image itself is meant to appear serious and quite intimidating, which is why when it came to taking images I tried to keep as straight faced as possible, this image portrays quite well what I was trying to achieve.

It was important that the choice of clothing worn and style were of a rock related apperance, otherwise it would not have that strong connection, so I chose to wore a denim jacket, with one side of the collar neither up or down, to give it a tatty, not very well dressed appearance. I also made sure that my hair was quite messy and wild.

My Audience

As my magazine is to be a rock genre magazine, then my audience will of course be people more interested in rock music than any other, I hope to create a magazine that can appeal to many sub cultures of rock and not just say for instance indie or punk etc, although it will go against the conventions of specialist magazines, I look forward to the challenge

Brief

I have chosen a to create a music magazine, it will focus on Alternative Rock and will slightly resemble magazines like NME and Q. It will have a very simplistic colour scheme, the choice of imagery will be reflective of the magazine. I will attempt to make an aesthetically pleasing magazine for an audience of rock fans. The imagery I have used on my covers section will give a good idea of where i want to go with my magazine.

Covers

NME covers tend to be very simplistic and focus only on a 3 or 4 major colour scheme, even though the '100 greatest British albums ever' appears to have a lot going on, if you look at it in depth there's 4 dominant colours, red, blue, white and black, the coulours of the Union Jack.

The first image shows JDB from Manic Street Preachers depicted as Che Guevara a major figure within the Cuban Revolution, as the story is about the Manics tour in Cuba. The sentence above the main line translates to 'Always towards victory' a famous qoute by Che Guevara. the bold red stands out as it's the most prominent colour, perhaps there may be too much red used but however that is how the original image is portrayed.

The Jim Morrison cover is the opposite, however the red still appears the most dominant colour. This image appears to be more aesthetically pleasing in my opinion. I think i'll use this as my main inspiration when it comes to doing my own.

One thing that is the same throughout is that all the people involved in the pictures seem to be facing forward and not away from the camera, i will keep with this convention when it comes to doing my own.