My Final Front Cover...

My inspiration came from the Q magazine, I took the idea of my 'Xmas Awards' callout for the Paulo Nutini Q magazine, I used the colours that they used in that front cover because it really jumped off the screen and demanded your attention, the callout is a typical convetion of a magazine.

I also took the way that 'Jasper John' is written from the various special editions that Q did for its aniversary. I like as it is written in hand writing it have a quite personal feel, like the artist himself wrote it on the front.

The inspiration to have my image in black and white came from the Q magazine front cover on Paul McCartney, I like the black and white look as it is very sophisticated and gives a fresh look which I feel my target audience would enjoy.

I used a border around my magazine to make it look more intresting also as a header and footer I added a tagline 'The UK's Best Music Mag' by using 'Mag' instead of magazine I have made my magazine appeal to my audience more as I have used up-to-date slang, and my target audience would talk using words like this, I also did this again by using 'tunes' instead of songs to make it more appealing to the target age group.

My 'Xmas Award' I backed on the two black and white callouts to run with the theme of back and white in my image it gives off quite a bold statement which is the theme I was going for.
I have also place a barcode on my magazine as a typical convention of a magazine, I also added and website, issue number, price and date, I have seen this on every proffesional magazine, and I want mine to be proffesional.

I have noticed through my research that a magzine will use three main colours (exculding their brand colour) in a magazine front cover, this is very widely used so I decide to encorporate it in my magazine, my three colours were red, black and white. In the 'talks about in his new abum' I used a grey font backed on black, this is because this wasn't the bit of the magazine I wanted to catch their eye with.

I also put 'This Years Top Tunes' in red and black because it tands out also red gives the theme of expencive, elegant and royal, I chose red because of this because I would want my magazine o be something special and rare.

I have used ID backed on a blue background in white as my masthead as I believe it would be appealing to my target audience, about 90% of the 17-25 year old I have asked about masteheads said that they prefer the current mastehead that I have on my magazine and that they think the masthead that goes across the entire page is bland, boring and to common and they want to stand out from the crowd.