Front Cover Construction Development

This is the construction of my front cover. As I make changes and add more to it, I will add photos of them to this post. 

I originally had the masthead grey to match the black and white colour scheme. After I started to construct more, I felt that it didn't stand out enough on a cover. And I thought about if it was on a magazine stand and you only saw the top of it, that wouldn't be very exciting and make people want to buy it. So Ithough that if I added just one colour to then carry on through the magazine, that would be better than just black and white.

As I added more coverlines, I chose little bits to make blue and go with the new colour scheme I had chosen. I decided to steal the idea of the little plus sign from my research of Vibe magazine. It makes the magazine look and seem more positive and I thought that would be a really good idea to steal. I made tiny details on the barcode at the bottom corner. I put the price right next to it big enough so you can see it, but small enough so it didn't stand out like a coverline. I then made an extra bar on the barcode that says 'WINTER 2014' and below, 'PLAYLIST.COM'. I also copied this particular idea from Vibe magazine. I felt that these ideas would appeal to my target audience because it is the same as Vibe's target audience. 

For the coverlines, I used a variety of greys to go with the picture. I didn't make any of them bright white (apart from the main coverline to stand out more), or dark black. I didn't want to make anything stand out more over the others and I thought if I use greys then I can get a different contrast on the image and off the image. So where The medium grey on the suit stands out quite well, it looks quite wishy-washy on the background where it is really light, so I had to use a darker grey on that. But they stand out as much as eachother even though they are different shades. I wanted to make each coverline different and unique, so none of them looked the same and make it look boring. Because I decided to do coverlines on just one side of the page, I had to make them look really good and so it didn't look too overcrowded or empty because of that. The coverline in the middle I did in quite a large font because it is still about Marley and the main cover story. Although it is a different article, it is still about the same person. I wanted to have two stories on him so that it wouldn't just be two pages for him, there will be more, but a slightly different story.

The main coverline I did in white and a light grey. I did this to stand out on the black over everything else on the page, as it is the main focus of the magazine.