Deciding on a front cover

My first style of my magazine front cover uses a mid-shot camera angle, to capture the authentic pose of my model. I position it slightly to the right to enable me to the space to locate the sell lines, skyline and cover lines , which is the main key conventions you see published on a magazine front cover to engage and entice the chosen target audience. The background colour scheme of the cover is a light grey with a shimmer tint of sliver. This shade of background links in with my chosen colour pallet of red, black, grey and white. I chose this particular background to link and have a sense of consistency with my double page spread photo, which used a abstract pattern background of black and silver.

This is my second version of my front cover magazine, I incept with the original photo of the first version as if feel from all the photos I gathered from my Photo-shoot, this was the best quality photo and I felt that this photo had the best overall look and appearance of the pop genre magazine from the deep detailed research I gathered of professional magazine. However I change the background to a simple use of the colour white, this is because sometimes when reader a magazine with a darker background it is harder to distinguish the text. Therefore I felt that I would change to background too see if the background would affect my magazine. Choosing a lighter background also adds a daintier emotion and atmosphere to the magazine opposed to a dark background.

Comparing the two various magazine to one another , In my opinion I feel the second style magazine cover looks more professional and I feel that the darker grey background doesn’t tie in to my genre , therefore my effect how the reader and target audience view my magazine.  For my contents page and double page spread I plan to use a grey background, so using too much grey within the magazine may overpower the effectiveness of the text and images within the magazine.