Cover Page

Print screens

The reason I chose a black background was because in rock magazine you always see black if not in the background then in images.

Also I thought that this would be very eye catching for the audience especially for the front cover of the magazine as it will be something different.

I chose this font as I thought it looks very distorted and original as you would normally see plain bold writing which stands out on Rock magazines.

The reason I did this was because the black and red look really good together and they go hand in hand when it comes to rock.

Furthermore you know you can the rock genre from other magazines is because they have red, black and white on it as their majority colours.

When I put the font on the background I realised that I am going to have to change the colour of the U as it was black I decided to give it a red outline which went very well it after all.

This would make the audience attracted to it more as it stands out much more and looks more exciting.

I realised that when I placed it in Indesign it had a white box around it so I had to go back to Photoshop and edit it again.

This is the image I wanted for my cover page as it draws the audience to the image straight away as all the characters are looking at the readers and gets them engaged and into it. I had to erase out all the side green bits from the green screen and bring the image closer to lasso it.

I made the image enlarged but not out of proportion as it would look not right.

I then placed it on the black ground.

This lets the image jump out of the magazine as it is very intrigues its as if they are trying to tell you a secret and let you in their world.

Moreover the high angle shot makes them look inferior giving the reader to feel superior for once.

The image looked slightly plain so I decided to give it a white outline so it would make them look more mysterious and have a luminous effect to it.

I made a red box to create my bottom strip. The reason I chose red was because I was going to write with black font so it is more interesting.

I wrote in my bottom strip, with a white font.

I wanted a star on my cover lines to made them look more appealing and different.

I thought that this will draw the audience to look at the cover lines because when you shelf the magazine you see the left hand side so if I had a different approach to the cover lines and make them look more inviting then this will give audience something to notice on the side.

I had to erase the star out as I did not want the black outline because I wanted to back it with a white box.

I added all the stars on the side and it really made a difference to the magazine.

I had more boxes on the right hand side and wrote different things in them. I had to box them up as well because you could not see the font on the black background.

Additionally the boxes draw more attention to themselves as they have white background with the black and red writing on them.

Syke had to be written on the front cover page as the whole article was about her and her journey through life.

The font Syke was off a urban fonts. The reason I chose this font design instead of the others was because this is not like normal font you see on magazines but it makes it more noticeable.

I wanted to try the same I thing I did with the masthead so you coloured the 1st letter a different colour so again it would make it more special and unique.

I realised that the cover lines were looking very plain.

I decided to outline the font with a red outline and black fill. Also the second one I swapped it around so it would not clash with the image.

After that I put in the Syke in the white box and added a red and black effect on the opposites ends. So it would look out of the ordinary but still very attention-grabbing.

I had put the date and price near the top of the magazine so people would not feel lost looking for it.

The barcode on the right hand side is where all barcodes are so when the shop keeper scans the magazine the can do it with ease.