Front Cover

When making my front cover, I first started by making the page A4 on international paper as this is the size of a music magazine. I then placed a title on the same shade of red to follow a theme of same colours throughout my magazine, I gave the same effect as my contents page title to make a consistent theme on my music magazine and on typical indie rock music magazines, by giving a drop and the effect of a stroke with white colour. 

Then I created a shape at the top of the music magazine by using the rectangle tool on photo shop, using the same shade of red to make this consistent. I added text from photo shop on the shape as following inspiration from nme, they include a cover line on top of the music magazine, I also included famous artists as this would attract more buyers and interest the audience. I also used text from photo shop under neath the title to present what the title stands for 'Indie Rock Music' and issue number. 

I then started to include cover lines on the front cover of the music magazine, by following the conventions, I used black and red text for each of the content and title of each cover line. The title font is Myriad Pro and the content of the text in black is the same as the contents page as I followed a structure and tried to use the same text within my music magazine, as the font is Tiresias PC font at regular and the same sizes throughout the magazine. Then I created a black shape circle on photo shop by using the ellipse tool and included text of other famous artists. The tone of the magazine is informal and colloquial, for example 'pretty odd, pretty ace?' 

Then after I had finished the cover lines, I placed a grey shape over the text using the rectangle tool on photo shop and changing the opacity, so the the text is clear to see and makes the cover lines stand out more. 

Once, I had added the main story line and added the date, bar code and price to the magazine, by using da font for the title and the bar code. This was my final front cover, which I believe to be successful from following inspiration such as nme music magazine and the plan of my layout and ideas.