Front Cover Construction

The First Front Cover

The first front cover was to use the picture with my model using her hands to create a camera lenses. I wanted to create this look to give me a story to use for the double page spread as well as giving me a title and coverline. This pose also gives me a different pose to other magazines and the readers may find this intriguing and would draw them into buying.
I had a different model as the first photo shoot did not go to plan.

Steps to My Front Cover

Step 1: I had to make the picture seem a lot more interresting and draw attention to the sign that she was making with her hands so I had decided and change the colour of everything around the hand movement black and white, leaving the her eyes and fingers in full colour using adjustments and desaturated. I thought that this was a good idea because it made my front cover picture different as well as reflecting the style and the target audience: Hip Hop with quirkyness.

 Step 2: I decided to keep this style even thought having second thoughts about it and started to add the texts such as the title and headline.

Step 3: After adding some of the texts, it began to become a hindrance to have such a picture so I decide to have the original picture back without any editing and the cover began to take shape. I also realize that the original gave me more to work with so I knew how to colour code my pictures to the font and colour.
This only left me to add the texts in so that my magazine would be complete.

Step 4: I decided to brighten the picture because it looked way too dark and the reader wouldn't find this to stand out among other magazine. It proved that the brightness and contrasts of the picture improved the quality of the magazine altogether. This also increased the level of quirkiness by not looking like an ordinary picture, which I found played well to my target audience of young teens. This also helped with house style as I am using bright pinks, oranges and white and black to  complete my look.









Finally Step 5: Adding the bumper sticker and the barcode was difficult because you didn't want to move what you had just made but whereas you need to have a basic conventions of a magazine.
My final edit