Front cover stages of production.

What do you look for on a pop magazine front cover?

Interesting imagesBold text Free itemsBright colours Social meida

Audience research question 1.What do you look for on a front cover?

I asked 50 people, 25 boys and 25 girls What do you look for on a front cover? The majority of the people that I asked said they look for interesting images and free items inside the magazine.

This is the photo that I decided to use for my main image on my front cover.I then took this image into photoshop and cut the image out. This was a new skill for me because for my preliminary task I had not cut any images out. I used a number of different tools to cut out my image such as the quick selection and the lasso tools.

Main image selection

When I asked my audience what they thought of my image the majority of them stated that they looked like a pop boy band. This was what I was hoping for.

How I got to my first draft. Stages.

To start of with I made my logo. Once I had done that I position all the boxes and shapes where I wanted them to go. I did this so I had a basic structure of where I wanted things to go, I was able to use my research that I had done to help me with this.

Once I had put the boxes in place I then started to fill in the spaces. I started by adding social media logos in the top left corner. I then put my first secondary image in and added text besides it to anchor the image.

I also add a puff in with promoting a free album inside because my audience research told me that people look for free items and it means they are more likely to buy the magazine.

I then started to add the sublines in and pictures to go with them. I put them down the left hand side of the page because I found that most pop magazines placed their sublines down the left hand side of the page. So I was following the conventions of pop magazines

How I got to my first draft. Stages.

I then added in my main cover line. I put this in the middle of the page because it is the main article in this magazine. I also placed it over the main image. I did this because the main cover line is about the band in the main image.

I then added another puff about the main cover line, so that the audience know that the main article is going to be an interview with the band.

How I got to my first draft. Stages.

Then I added in a posters area at the bottom of the page. Again I did this because people like to get free things inside magazines, so offering them posters of bands will again encourage them to buy the magazine. Next to each of the images I put the name of the band member to anchor the image.

I then added a bar code in the space as well.

How I got to my first draft. Stages.

My first draft for my magazine

Audience FeedbackWhat could I do to improve my front cover?

“Fill the blue shape in the bottom

left hand corner with a fashion

section” - Pip lloyd

“There are too many fonts being used. Change some so

there are fewer” – Declan Smit

“Swap the Mike & Maati subline with the Connor subline, so that the puff is by the relevant picture.”- Mrs Gama

“Can you make the 'exclusive' part bigger and more engaging?”- Mike Overton

“Instead of using red,

maybe change that to

a pinky colour, because

it suits the genre pop

more”- Hannah Wood

“Make the names of the artist

bigger by the posters section

so they are easier to read.” –

Connor Swingler

“Turn the poster offer at the bottom into a strip” –Mrs Heywood

“Add a white background to the bar code”- Tom Bird

Final copy.

This is my final copy of my front cover after I had acted on all my audience feedback that I received.