Final Pieces

cover finished ideas

After making my progression through designing my front cover for my rock magazine I have finally come up with a final idea which I think fits the rock genre I am aiming at. Firstly in my first image I had designed my magazine with the name "venom" and originally I had decided to go for a simple rock theme but after feedback I decided to take some of the text of the main screen and re size the image so it was smaller on the front cover. I also changed the colour scheme of the magazine to a blue colour which I gained feedback on and I decided to change the colour scheme back to red as it fit the magazine genre better. In my final design I added more text and changed the name of the magazine which fits the rock genre a lot more the name is now "megadeath" also I have added text to the top left of the magazine to make it look more like a rock magazine.

Cover Progression

Cover update

I have received feedback on my designs and I have decided to change a few parts to my front cover. Firstly I have changed the name of magazine as other rock magazines use a longer magazine name I have decided to go for a longer magazine name of "megadeath" rather than "venom" which is too short. Also I like the longer title as you don't have to stretch the text for it to fit the whole width of the magazine.

I have also made my masthead a lot longer in length because on traditional rock magazines the masthead is usually quite thick in length so I have decided to go for that choice of masthead.

I have decided to use another text for the name of my band "The Sirens" which looks a lot better as most rock bands have a unique type of text for their name and I think the font I have used is very unique and looks like the font that a rock band would use.

Feedback Cover Page

The first picture shown is my original cover mock design which I had many ideas for. After getting feedback from my teacher on the cover page I had decided to take the advice and change around a few parts to my design. The other two pictures shown are the same but both of them have a different coloured title as I have not decided what title to use yet.

Both the new images show a different font used for my masthead of my cover page and I have decided to make the main image bigger. I have taken off some text below the main text as it seemed there was too much text for the cover page. I have only added one line of text which now looks more suitable and looks more like the magazine I am aiming to recreate which is the Kerrang magazine style. I made the box at the bottom smaller which meant the bar-code and the text next to it would have to be moved so I moved the text and it looks better than before. I have added a banner behind the main text as my magazine inspiration Kerrang magazine issues a banner behind the main text on one of it's cover pages.

Magazine Draft Cover page and Contents page

Draft

Three Magazine Cover Pages

3 Cover Pages v1 by callumlindsay