After producing a draft front cover for my music magazine I now know that I need to re-take some images and comment on what I was trying to achieve from each of them, because my previous images look under exposed and generally out-of-focus. I have thought about some images of other magazines that have influenced when I have re-thought what I'd like to see within my Front Cover.
I now have more ideas about what sort of ideology I wanted to portray through my magazine. Through my draft front cover I was trying to convey the idea of a rebellious Alice, but I don't think that this is as suitable for my intended audience. So I am going in a slightly different direction within the same genre and the idea of being transported into another world in the main feature. After researching the most popular music magazines in Britain circa. 2011
- Top of the Pops 98,030
- Mojo 87,262
- Q 80,418
- Kerrang 43,033
- NME 29,020 [1]
I don't believe there is a magazine appealing to a dominated audience of women, but the music industry has several high-flying, successful female artists such as Adele, Ellie Goulding, Jessie J and Duffy.
I like this front cover of Billboard magazine, because it represents Adele as a new and upcoming artist with something to hide. I think it has a hidden message and appeals to the readers by msking them think that there is more to this cover than meets the eye. It allows the audience to think that they don't know all there is to know about Adele "Who's That Girl?" implies that we don't know about, but suggests that we should.
I like this front cover of ELLE magazine, because it has a conventional left third and masthead, but they are set out in a alternative way. The size of the typeface is the only indication as to which artists are their heavily featured ones and which ones aren't featured as much.
I think that this issue of Entertainment Weekly is a good idea for inspiration as they have two words for their title of the publication in the masthead in one word. The word weekly is embedded within entertainment, which I like because it is different from what I have seen before.
I like this front cover of Q because their subtitle "blows us away" to the main feature headline links to the main image of Adele with windswept hair. I like the subtle yet effective and eye-catching make-up that highlight the best features of her face. I also like their use of a splash to mark their 300th Issue.
I like this front cover of Rolling Stone due to its use of different fonts in it's right third to distinguish between the importance of their features and also the more prominent features have subtitles in a smaller typeface.
I like this front cover of Vogue magazine with orange Masthead and main feature headline it is less conventional, but works really well with "Autumn's Essentials." As the colour orange holds connotations of autumn and autumn leaves.
I really like this front cover of InStyle due to the gold glittery masthead and how it links to the model's dress and the smaller version of the masthead in the bar code also makes it look really professional.
I like this cover of Billboard magazine due to the concept behind it "Woman of the Year" suggests a award is involved and the red curtain holds connotations of awards and Hollywood.
I like this magazine front cover due to their eye-catching image and use of lots of text and smaller features without distracting your point of focus away from the main feature image. I also like the variations of font to represent different features.
I like this magazine front cover with its bold, eye-catching image and well structured text and smaller features.
I like this example of Entertainment weekly's front cover due to its masthead having a word within another word and the bold use of colour with a blue background.
I like this front cover due to the image's alignment to the right giving space for the left third and the use of black and red alternately used for the text.
