Final Front Cover and its adjustments.

This is my finished front cover of my magazine!

I have also adjusted many things to do with the cover. Firstly I have changed the positioning of the "posters". I moved them lower down the page to compliment the bottom half of the page and behind the titles added a black box using the square marquee tool. I felt this was needed due to the contrast of the clothing of the picture and it was slightly hard to read what it said. On the "posters" text I added in a drop shadow and outer glow to make it stand out more as it did not stand out from the other text.

From moving the posters down I was then able to add in a quote from what will be my double page spread of the "artist" on my front cover, although the quote may be a little extreme I felt it suited the front cover well and would attract readers- "The moment I heard the first beats of Dubstep I was hooked, like an addict on HEROIN"

I have re-arranged the back ground image so that it cover the sides of the page instead of having the background as a boarder. I have also removed the barcode and will put this is the contents page instead. In it's place I have placed a "competition circle" which explains about winning tickets to a Bass-loving festival, again as if to attract readers and my target market/ audience. I have added a date and issue number underneath the title also as I felt it was necessary to include one of these on the front cover, as every other magazine I have looked at also has one. I have changed the text at the top which used to read "Band Tours". I changed it as firstly I realised that many of the artists below were not actual bands instead were DJ's and solo artists, therefore the title was irrelevant and incorrect, and therefore I changed the artists to all solo artists and dual DJ's.

I adjusted the very bottom text to do with the artists' interviews. I felt in ratio to the magazine the "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW" text was too large therefore I made it smaller and made the spacing more relevant. Then added pink bars to make the interview still look interesting and important.

Finally to top off the final stage of making my magazine complete I included an "INSIDE!" piece to further attract more of my target audience. And again used the black boxes to highlight their importance. However, I couldn't make these to big as I did not want to draw the attention away from the interview at the bottom.

Overall, I am pleased with my front cover, I enjoy putting the effort into it and with the effort I feel rewarded with what my work has accomplished!