Front Cover Development

After adding all the plugs and puffs and final touches. Whilst making the front cover I continued on to emphasise the colour scheme of metallic colours. Also adding plugs on famous artists to engage with the reader. As well as this I added a barcode and price to show the reader how the magazine is at a reasonable price. The entire look is classy and is aligned but fills the negative space successfully.

I progressed a lot in this stage and really focused on the image and the alignment of the magazine. Starting with the image, I ensured that it was engaging, attractive and most importantly appealing for all readers to see. I wanted the blue tie to be the only pop of colour which is bold and pops out at the reader from a far.

To increase the engagement between the reader and the front cover, I ensured myself that I would flaunt the 'Free CD' puff. I did this to simply let readers explore with their musical interests and widen their knowledge on different soul artists. Additionally, this will approach people who are not fully aware of the soul music industry and allow them to expand their interests.

Along the side of the masthead I added several famous soul artists and placed them all together so that the reader can carry on to know that this magazine is including the best features of soul and how the top artists are featuring in this magazine. These memorable artists make the reader familiarise with the magazine and excite them for what they will be reading. Lastly, it will resemble how only the best artists will make it to the magazine and are climbing the ladder to success; using the magazine and its social features. 

I added a puff to label the magazine to clearly highlight that this magazine is the best soul culture magazine in the UK. This entails that it immediately tells the reader how popular this magazine is and how the readers will have high expectations of the magazine.

I then made my masthead. I put the title as 'Vinyl' because it gave a feature of soul and an authentic vibe. I did this in bold black text as it is attractive and engaging for the reader. This also makes the magazine popular as it will be recognisable for the demographic to see on the shelves.

To start off my front cover, I wanted my masthead to have a background to break up the front cover and to show structure. I did this by taking a gold colour and placing it on top of a paint drip effect. I then put a shimmer effect on top of this to accentuate the glam aspect of the genre/magazine.