My final cover features all the conventions of a real magazine cover page. The purpose of the cover page is to make a magazine stand out from those displayed around it so the key to its success is a really strong image of someone the audience recognises and likes. Cover pages also need a strong masthead. Other conventional details include a cover story, usually in large text, cover lines to promote the magazine's contents, a bar code and dateline. Some also include additional features.
My cover page has a strong masthead. It is different from other most mastheads in that the font size and style is small and italic but I still think that it is strong for who I want to target. It is feminine in terms of colour and font choice and the name I have chosen is strikingly unexpected. I wanted to be ironic in order for people to remember the name so I chose something that could be read in different ways. I chose to place it at an angle so it looked soft and not stamped on the page. This offered contrast to the name itself.
For the main image I chose a close up and a subjective gaze because my research showed that these are the covers that young women are most attracted to. I placed the image on the right of the page so that I had space down the left side for the coverlines.
I included cover lines to attract the audience and make them want to buy and read the magazine. If I didnt include a variety of cover lines, then my product would fall short in pulling in a wider audience. I wanted to use variety of recent music, bands and solo artists as my audience have varied tastes.
I kept the colour range limited to three colours which matched the feminine style and picked out colours from the photograph. I reduced the spaces between the lines of text to make the cover feel more crammed with interesting features.
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