Front Cover Planning

i've started creating my front cover, i am taking the images tomorrow and i have started creating the masthead. i am using photoshop to create my front cover. 

i've created my mast head by using a font i downloaded from www.dafont.com i then added an inner glow on photoshop using purple. i then added a blue stroke around the outside.

i am aiming to get this sort of effect for my front cover. I have taken two examples from Kerrang.

 I like the idea of t his magazine as it shows her as a strong person and the focus is over her punching out, suggesting she is hitting back from critism. I am going to try and replicate this with my models. I also like how they have the poster special part on the bottom left corner, i am also going to try and put one of these into my front cover. Also, the model in this picture is wearing bright pink lipstick i was thinking of having my model wearing red lipstick but now i have seen this front cover i'm starting to think maybe bright pink would be a better idea.

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I like this style of front cover too. I like the way the girl is posed onto the front cover. Her facial expression makes her seem angelic but her body language shows off attitude, i think this is really effective as the rest of the article is in yellow and black which ties in with the colours of her shirt. I'm going to take some photos of my model in similar poses to this to try and give off the same effect.










For my double page spread i am going to shoot the majority of the shots i'll use in the studio. I've decided to do this because magazines such as NME and Kerrang rarely have photoshoots outside, rocksound so more outside shoots. I also think it would be a good idea to do my shots particularly the cover shot in the studio because then i'm not having to worry about the amount of background in my shot.

On my flatplans i drew the writing so that it would have the same effect that this does. Having, in this case the bands name then the frontmans name in a different colour. I decided to use this time of sell line but my having a sell line in one colour then my models name in a different colour but trying to fit with the same colour schemes.