front cover

This is my front cover for my music magazine 'Infamous' I added a trademark sign next to the name of the magazine because I thought it would make it look more professional and it's something a real magazine would have next to the name on theirs. I decided to add banners at the top and bottom of the page and thought it would be good to be able to add little headlines in them giving the readers a clue to what will be featured in the magazine, I thought by putting some in banners it would mean I wouldn't have to list things all down the side as I didn't want it to look too cluttered. On the bottom banner I thought I could put a competition on it and then put a picture of what could be won next to it. I used my main feature Steph Martin as the girl on the cover as she would be on the double page spread and one of the most important things included in the issue. I researched things like Download festival and added that on the cover with some of the actual acts that are annouced for this years festival, I decided that by adding things like that, that are actually real it could help make the magazine look more realistic as not everything included in it would be made up. I then did a mini photoshoot with Matthew Elliot who is in the black and white photo on the side so that not all the magazine would be based on Steph I thought Matthew fit the genre of magazines as he's got tattoos and piercings which are things that bands/acts that are on these magazines usually have.  I gave the magazine an issue number and looked at prices of real music magazines so that the price would be realistic to, once I settled on a price I wanted to keep it accurate so I went on a currency converter and coverted it into US Dollars and Euros.