Creating My Front Cover

I decided to create my front cover with a gradient of black to make sure that there wasn't a block colour which would allow my magazine show the different articles it has to produce as it has a gradient, suggesting it is covering all topics.

Making sure the darker colour is centred towards the middle to make it draw attention to the middle of the page. Which will also show the audience where the main articles and what is more important (my double page spread).

Next I added my title to my magazine and my model which was located slightly to the right to show the audience the other articles that the magazine is displaying. As well as this the model is slightly moved to show the left side of him.

I put the model slightly covering the title 'LeftField' as this is a common convention for R&B and pop magazines. Therefore, I have followed these conventions to show that my model is the main feature of my magazine.

I have added an Issue number, date and price to the right hand side of my model. I have placed it in this location as this is a part of the magazine that is less important. Therefore, it doesn't need to be on the main part of the magazine's front cover (to the left of the model). I have decided to release my magazine in January 2017. However, this magazine is in the issue 14 which would not be the amount of issues that the magazine would have been at the month of 14, as a common convention of music magazine's is releasing a new magazine each month. I added a barcode underneath this.

I added a footer to my magazine, displaying names of R&B artists that would be popular throughout magazines. I decided to do this in a brown colour as this is an accent colour for my magazine and will be seen on the contents page. As well as this, I chose to write the artists names in white as they are not as important as some of the other articles in my magazine. I separated this with a white line to show that it is different to the other parts of my magazine.

Next I added the models name of my main feature on the very front of my magazine to make it stand out, with a little strap line to show what the article is about stating 'Hottest artist of 2016'

I added more features of my magazine making sure to rotate the colours of each between red and white changing what each headline is different.

As well as this, my magazine is similar to the NME magazine. Therefore, I put a line underneath my title to show that it is a special after the latest award show.