MAKING FRONT COVER #6

 

At this stage I was looking for an effective font to apply to the main artist's name therefore i went to www.dafont.com to search for another font that stands out from the rest and one which is more personal to the artist and her character. I settled for a font under the 'hand written' category because it was more curvey/less serious/more playful. 

MAKING FRONT COVER #5

At this stage of making my front cover i was experimenting with different fonts for the minor stories on the front cover so i decided to chose a more futuristic font because it appeals to people of a more younger genaration rather than an older audience. I also experimented with the spacing out of text and chose to use it in a few text boxes

MAKING FRONT COVER #4

At this stage of making my front cover i was placing text boxes in the appropriate positions. This meant they were to go round the edges of the cover because traditionally in magazines the less significant stories are written in small sized font along the sides.

MAKING FRONT COVER #3

 

I chose to use this picture of Jess because I throught it was the most 'glamorous', wild and most fitting picture to suit the lifestyle of the magazine and its audience's preference because they wouldnt want a boring picture. I used the pen tool in Photoshop to cut out the picture in the best quality becauser the pen tool allows users to make perfect curves and straight lines. I then put minimal drop shadow on thet layer so that it stands out from the back ground.

MAKING FRONT COVER #2

 

 

In continuation, the pictures above show the process in which it took to make the magazine title/featuring artists. To begin with, I copied and pasted the preview of the font, which I got from 'Dafont.com', into Photoshop and used the colour select tool to extract the font from the print screen. Then after I got the gold texture above from google images and merged it together  'UNDERGROUND' to creat a text that has a texture with in it. After I created a horizontal textbox and put the additional featuring along the top in a 'spaced out' sytle and made that font navy blue. 

MAKING FRONT COVER #1

The following pictures are a series of printscreens of the making of my front cover.

 

To begin with, this is my back ground and i make it by downloading a variation of paint splatter brushes and placing them symetrically around the page. I chose the background colour scheme to be dark grey contrasting with light grey so that both the splatters blendin well.

Double page spread - Photoshoot

 

The pioctures above were taken in the drama studio and there are a number of visual aspects (mis-en-scene) which were purposely added to suit the target market, genre and corparate identity of the magazine.

 

To begin with, my attempt was to make the double spread completely different to the front cover by making it more personal towards the artsit and what she stands for. Which is why I decided to run with a majority black theme because, although black is associated with evil, death and depressing, it can also stand for classy, straight forward and simple and thats the way i wished to portray the artists image. In addition, the gold chain and 'old school' radio was used to appeal to the target auduence because traditionally, in hip-hop, artist are known for wearing expensive jewellery etc... Also, the sweatshirt that shes wearing is another representation for the hip-hop culture/fashion therfore it'll apeal to the target audience.

 

The first 3 images are a variation of longshots which feature jess doing different poses. Initially my favourite is the first image because shes looking at the radio as a sign of music being important.

 

 The other images are a variation of medium shots, low angle shots and high angle shots however I didnt think they were suitable for a double page spread.