Cover Final

This is my final over and I made it by slightly changing things from my first draft. But to get from my fourth draft to my final magazine cover I asked three of my friends for their feed back and what they would improve on it if it was their design. They all said that they would happily buy the magazine but they had some improvements that I took into account when I finalized my magazine cover.

The first person that I asked only had one improvement, which was to change the colour of the selling line. And the third person that I asked also said the selling line’s colour needed to be changed but they said that the purple didn’t fit in with the rest of the colour scheme, and the colour would need to be a turquoise to go with the background. But I changed the colour to a light blue, because the purple colour was lighter then the blue of both the background and the blue of the title and it went with the rest of the colour scheme better then the turqoise.

The second person that I asked only had two improvements; one was to have the model holding the splat that is behind the main cover line. I didn’t use this idea as the whole point of the model having her own colour scheme and not touching that much of what is around her, helps show the under tone of Gothic. It shows that she is isolated. The second thing that they suggested was to leave out the ‘about’ because it confuses the reader. I used this in my final cover.

The third person that I asked had three different improvements for my cover. They wanted the selling line to be a different colour just like the first person. The second thing that they wanted was the shape behind the main cover line to move up a little so that the pattern of the background to be seen. But with moving the cover line’s up so the whole pattern can be seen, it makes the cover look strange and wastes a lot of space. So I only move he cover lines up a little so some of the pattern but not all of it. The last thing that they said that I should change the effect of the shape that is behind the main cover line, so that it is shiny. I didn’t really like this idea, but I did change the effect to make it look 3D.

I also changed the colour of the shape as it didn’t look right with the blue text on it, I changed the angle of the text to, so that it looked more like it was on the shape itself and not just typed on top of it.

I decided that the magazine’s cover looked more like a cover for a Techno Goth magazine. So I changed the selling line to reflect this and will change the contents page for draft 3 so that the idea is carried on.

I changed the font for the masthead as it helped to show the two genres that the magazine is now going to focus on. The red of the shape behind the main cover line, works well with the Gothic side of the genre as it could be a blood splatter.