Front Cover

After the research process of analysing front covers of current music magazines it was time to make my own.

Font Styles
For the front cover I decied that there are two main headings on the page: the magazine title 'SNARE!' and the band's name 'the LOVELESS'. Both fonts I decied had to be edgey and quite rebellious, so I used urbanfonts.com and searched through the wide selection of fonts on the website.
Here are some of the fonts that I liked for the magazine title:

For the masthead I chose the last font, as it is the boldest and as it has white splashed across it makes it rebellious.

For the band name I wanted a edgy, bold, close to handwriting font.

Here are some fonts that I liked:

I decided to use the second font, however as the masthead is black I decided to paint around the letters on photoshop to make it like it is on the cover.

Images

During the photoshoot my sister took photos of Danielle and I together for the front cover. The image I wanted for the front cover must have lots of attitude and be edgy as this image sells the magazine and this is the music genre.

Here are the photos that I chose from for the front cover:

^ I chose this one for the front cover picture as the expression on our faces is very edgey and full of attitude.

Colours

The theme colours I decided to use were red, black and grey as this is most common in indie rock music magazines.

The font colours ranged to give the front page some colour.

From here I started to create my front cover. It had to include the conventions of a magazine cover:

• Barcode
• Title
• Image
• Slogan

This is my magazine cover:

Process of making my front cover

I created my magazine cover on photoshop, however as I did not have many skills on this program but whilst making this I believe that I have improved them

1. The first stage was to choose the photo for the front cover, and from here edit the lighting and colours of the photo. For the front cover I wanted a mid shot of the band, and just the silhouette, so achieve this I used the polygonal lasso tool to cut around the bodies, from the background. Edited picture: 

2. The second stage I chose the colour of the background, I opted with white as it is simple and not distracting. Onto the background I put the picture in the middle and free-transformed it to size.
3. After I used the rectangular tool to created the red box which the title is in. I had to make sure that the object was behind the photo layer. Then I added the title and the slogan on 'Today's Indie magazine', which I rotated to be on the diagonal, (which shows rebellion as it is against the normal of being a straight box).

4. Then I added the barcode into the right hand corner, using a text box added the issue number and date.
5. Making sure that I was on the background I used the paint tool in the setting of 'Spatter 27' using a soft grey I created a dirty print around the image and titles.
6. From here I edited around 'The Loveless' text painting around the letters with a fuchsia pink colour , then used the polygonal lasso tool and cut around the text then put it in front of the picture. 

7. To finish I used the text box tool to add the features of the magazine 'SNARE! fest' and 'Spring feeling' which is the theme of this issue.