First draft of front cover

Experimentation of Coverline

This was my initial design for the coverline of this magazine. I played around with embossing, drop shadows and colours on CS4 Photoshop.

At first I liked it as I thought it looked bold and heavy but after pending my opinions on it I realised that it is a little too dark and heavy. I feel it may detract the reader's attention from the front cover photo and instead divert their attention to the coverline.

I began again with just the font and ended up with this. I much prefer this design as I feel it will accompany a wider range of front covers with its subtle colour scheme and light drop shadow. To do this I edited the 'noise' of the font, this created the grainy glittery effect that the font now possesses. The audacity of the noise depended on how prominent I wanted the coverline to be, so I settled for a reasonably high ratio of noise causing small groups of coloured and white pixels to form. The effect 'noise' refers to the television as when there is a lack of signal, monochrome lines and squiggles appear. I feel this is quite relevant to the media industry and therefore would be a wise choice to use this as my coverline.

Potential Front Cover Photos

For my front cover I decided to use my friend Megan. She is naturally so beautiful and I knew from previous occasions that she has a very photogenic face. The make-up I used was reasonably light as I didn't want to detract from her facial expression as I felt this to be really important, yet I wanted her eyes to appear as big as possible so I found by applying a dark eyeshadow beneath her eyes as well as above makes them appear huge.

This is probably my favourite shot of this batch. I like her face as it is unexpected due to its soft facial expression and gaze. Her face seems so relaxed, it is almost as though she is in a daydream even though her eye contact with the camera remains so intent. I like her hair as it looks slightly tousled whilst also looking tamed.
The things I would change about it are the colour of eyeshadow used as I couldn't find my black so had to suffice with brown. I could probably alter this with the help of Photoshop though. Also, I feel that the photo is slightly generic when compared to the likes of i-D magazine covers.

This is one of my favourite photographs from the shoot also. We thought it was quite conceptual and strange to see punctuation marks painted on people's body yet it implies noise and sound which is definitely relevant. It was quite difficult to paint the exclamation mark on due to the crevaces of the fingers and the bumps on the hand. I think I could get this to look a lot more even and perfect with the help of Photoshop when I come to editing.

I quite like the idea of using a black and white photo for the front cover as it would allow me to be very experimental with font colours and the colour scheme of the rest of the magazine.



This photograph is similar to the previous one yet her eye contact with the camera is very different. She appears to be almost startled and possessed at the same time. I like the appearance of this photo and have decided that it may come in useful for my double-page spread as opposed to the front cover.