Final front cover

This is my finished front cover; I believe that this has gone very well. This is because I stuck to the main arrangement of my draft to get the rough idea of the layout, then added the necessary things to comply with the grime audience and played around with it to get the best possible result. I also stuck to the colour scheme that I had originally planned of black and white and this in my opinion looks good and would attract the grime audience and the colours are familiar to their ideology. The darkened blue works well as I have an idea to use this colour on my double page spread too so will work well with my house style and colour scheme. As you can see it is quite different from my draft, this is because although I have a simplistic house style, when I only added the things from the draft I felt that it was too plain and wouldn't be appealing to the audience, by adding more to it I think that it has given the magazine a realistic feel and made it look more aesthetically pleasing while still sticking to the overall simple conventional layout. Also, I changed some things from my draft, for example the feature artists were at the bottom originally but I decided against this as I tried to make it work well by adjusting the font, font size and trying to place a black box behind it, but it looked quite fake so I had to research some music magazines and see where they have placed them and above the masthead I think works well as they are very important piece of information for the audience to see. The main changes I made was because I felt that it didn't work well with my magazine and didn't suit the grime music genre, like in my draft I had a callout for the competition which I tried adding to my final front cover, but it looked a bit childish and didn't fit in with the grime ideology. I have followed the forms and conventions of real music magazines, for example including my masthead at the top of the page and the general things I have included are the things that are in real music magazines and in my opinion suit the grime audience. I have also included a variety of fonts, but not too many as it can be seen as overwhelming to the audience and I have added things to the fonts like the glow effect to highlight it and attract the audience. The one difference from this is my masthead, as it doesn't really connote grime, this is because it looks quite formal, but this is so it can be easily read as it is in quite a standard, bold font, which I feel gives it a professional look. So overall, I believe that my front cover has gone well as I have followed the forms and conventions to give it a realistic, professional look but also gone against them in order to give my magazine a unique look and would therefore stand out more to the audience.