This is my final front cover I have decided on. As you can see, I went with my 'stripes' idea over my 'box', as my sketches of potential 'colour box' designs showed me that there was too much white showing, and it didn't make the front cover look very good. It is purposefully simple, so it doesn't conform to normal magazine front cover stereotypes, as I found these looked cluttered. The cover story is written on the pink line, and in pink, to show that the main story for this week is 'pop' music. Previously my magazine was called 'Genre', as opposed to 'Music Genre'. I thought that the designs flaw was that it didn't show my magazine was a music magazine, so I changed the name. Also, I made sure my picture showed an instrument, to further show how it was a music magazine. The name 'Genre' was not good enough simply on its own, as although it gave connotations of different genres of music, it is not specific to music.
The art editor of 'Mojo' music magazine commented that the magazine had too many colours. I tried one or two changes to the picture to reduce the number of colours.
Here is one where the picture has been changed to black and white. It makes the picture look more dynamic, but audience feedback said that there was too much of a contrast between the colourful background, and the black and white photo. The emphasis was changed from the photo to the background.
I instead changed the picture to have a pink wash over the picture. The picture is then made up of different shades of pink. I chose the colour pink again to show how the magazines main story was a 'pop' story. However, I felt it put too much emphasis on the magazine being a pop magazine rather than a magazine about all genres, which meant potential buyers could get confused, or I could attract the wrong audience.
