Music Magazine Cover

My magazine front cover was produced on Adobe Photoshop, this site allowed me to edit images and generate text and colours. One of the first things I decided to do for my magazine front cover is the layout. with this it guided me and helped me complete my final piece. I knew my magazine was going to include a central image of John Lennon as the whole genre of the magazine is psychedelic rock. However, I could not get my own image of John Lennon, therefore I had to get an image of someone dressed up and imitating Lennon. I used my uncles friend a model and took mid shots of him and took the shot from a low angle. This represented him as having authority and power, and also it was a picture the audience would look at and inspire to be. He actually does not look like John Lennon at all, therefore I had to change his look. I did this by flattening his hair, changing his clothing, and actually drawing a mustache on him using a black felt tip. Although, it may have took a while for him to get the felt tip off his face, it was worth it as it was a laugh and the images came out successful.

 Once I did this, I uploaded my favorite picture to Photoshop and edited the picture with the poly lasso tool to make it fit in and look more professional. The only thing I did not create myself was the background, as attempted it and it simply did not like a official magazine background, therefore I added a background from the internet. However, I still edited this image, as I change the colours, brightness and size. Once I had the central image and background, it was time to add a logo and text. I created the logo myself, and I felt the font matched the genre of my magazine, as it was 'groovy'. I then added text to inform the audience what my magazine would be about. After all of this was complete, my magazine looked almost finished, however it did not look legitimate. Therefore I went and looked back at the analysis of other magazines and found they conventions like a link to a website, barcode, and a link to social media sites (such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook). With this in mind I added these conventions, and this made my magazine look a lot more legitimate. Finally, I added a graphical feature, as this made my magazine look eye catching and more appealing to the audience. This is also used as a persuasive device to get my intended audience to buy my magazine.

Overall I thing my magazine front cover is successful as it is very keeping with the genre of psychedelic rock. My magazine also target's my intended audience effectively as it uses their ideologies and aspirations within the code and conventions of the front cover. Furthermore, it looks like a official and legitimate magazine, which is therefore represented as reliable to the target audience.