Magazine Front Covers

For my front cover I will have my masthead, which is the name of my magazine Technoglow, displayed clearly in a large font across the top of my page. When looking at other music magazines such as Q and NME I can see they have their own masthead more to the top right of their front cover, however when looking at the magazine Kerrang, I decided to use this as my inspiration and display my masthead at the top and central of my page as I feel this makes more of a statement. I will also followed the general forms and conventions with my photo on the front cover of magazine which is true to almost all other music magazines. This will be a medium close up shot of my artist. My photo will stand out and attract the audience to the magazine as it is different. I will still follow the other rules of photography like other music magazines and made it a medium close up shot not appearing on a cluttered background. Many music magazines have their photo slightly covering their masthead at times such as Kerrang, however I have not done this as this is a first issue as people will not be familiar with the title of my magazine. I will have the name of my main artist featured in the main picture in the boldest, most creative text to make it stand out the most with a pull quote underneath. I will then have other features in the magazine displayed down the side along with smaller pictures of free posters.

Here are some examples of the front covers of popular music magazines: