My front cover!

When I had finally took all of my images for my music magazine right from the start I knew which image I wanted to use! So I then decided to develop it further to see which effects made it look the best to its ability.

Original photo!

What I thought looked best - so went with this!

I thought removing the background to this image and making it my front cover made it look the best it can! I thought it made it look professional and had a better effect on the reader rather than before with the background. I am really pleased that I went with this idea as I think it makes my magazine stand out and look really attractive , I also think it does look like that type of fashion magazine that you would pick up in store. From looking at this image you are unable to see the music side to it, although when I add my text you are then able to see by the headings given exactly what type of magazine it is!


My final front cover!

This is gonna take me a while to write!

I am really proud of my front cover, and after everything I am really happy with how it turnt out - I did not think it would turn out very well, and I thought I would not be that pleased with it.
I am really glad that I decided to remove the background to this image as I think it was the best decision to make, as now you only focus on the beauty of this model rather than what is behind her, which is clearly not relevant nor important.
Im really happy how I carefully removed the background to this image and added the 'feather' effect to it, so you are not able to tell that there was a background there in the first place.
I am also really happy with how my work has been seperated out, The date of the magazine realise is towards the bottom of the photo and like it says 'march 2011' as a reminder is a monthly magazine!
I have also put the barcode to my image in the top left towards the left hand side of my heading as I did not want it overlapping my photo as I thought it would then contredict my 'professional' look.
I then located the price of the magazine right under the heading, which I admit could of been moved to a different location to look better, but I do not think it looks too bad where it is!

My heading/title of my magazine - It took me a while to come up with the name and at the start of my coursework I started coming up with really boring names that would not of looked professional at all, and sounded rather stupid such as, lyrical words. It would not of sounded like a music magazine title at all! So im glad after making all my mind maps I finally started thinking about really unique and decent titles. I first started looking up words that had a similar meaning to 'unique' as this had a huge similarity to my magazine genre! I found in the theasurus the word 'insignificant' and I thought it had a real catch to it! and I really did like it, I also found 'conspicuous' which I also liked. I then thought it would be a really good idea if I looked up the spelling of these words in a different language, as that would definetly be unique and interesting.
I did not want to use languages such as chinese or korean etc which would produce me with results such as '显着' which I dont think would be effective at all.

So I thought I needed to find language's similar to English, which people in the UK & America would understand. So I first started with french, german, irish which I didnt like the sound of how they were pronounced that way. I finally settled with the spanish versions which I really did like!
I knew right away that 'Insignificante' was what I wanted to call my indie music magazine. That 'e' on the end made all the difference and I thought the title of my magazine sounded really good! :)

As you can see on my front cover, I havent included a lot of advertisements for my magazine, As I did not want to overload it, and I dont really think there is much room as if I added too much text it would ruin the image and the look I was aiming for completly, but as I have said before, I dont find that a successful magazine needs to include a lot of headings to grab the readers attention to buy or read, I think the image should be that strong to already do that!
I also did not want my magazine to include adverts like that, I wanted it to look professional and the 'expensive' type.

As you are also able to see, I did include inducements that I said I would 'guitar pick inside' Although as I did not want to include many colours to my front cover, apart from dull colours I did not go with the 'magazine theme colour' idea.

If I was to do this again, truthfully there would not be a lot I would change! I am really pleased with what I have produced and after all the changes I have made I would not make many changes to it now.
The downful to my front cover is my audience was young adults, both male & female who had a great interest in this type of music. As you can see on my front cover, there is not much on there that I could offer to a male! Or a male looking at it that has never heard of it before may have no idea what type of magazine it is so would not pick it up to have a look as they may assume only women should have a read!
Unless I only included indie singers/bands which were known by the population as that type of genre then they would automatically know!