26/03/13 my Front Cover so far

So I have been working on my front cover still, as well as my Double Page Spread. I am fast approaching the deadline but I feel ahppy enough with my current progress, and I feel that this could be the final thing on the condition that my teacher also agrees.

Firstly, to make this how it looks I have changed a lot of things and the first thing that I did was change the opacity on the footer bar that portrays 'Tickets to Leeds festival' as I wanted to make

it seem more spontaneous rather than the solid block colour that it previously was, as well as this I added in a new shape that would be the base of my main headline, and I also altered the opacity on this so that you could still see my model in the background. To me this still wasn’t enough so I tilted it along with the text. Even still it just didn’t satisfy me so I added some lines that would give it that extra edge and allow it stand out from a crowd of magazines. I decided to line my sell lines out generically so that they were simple, and easy to read and I put them all, apart from my exclusive sell line on the right hand side because this is seen as the ‘weaker’ of the sides due to us reading from left to right. However, I did place my exclusive on the right hand side but that was down to the fact there was very little space left on the magazine. Another big difference on my magazine was the editing of the masthead in which I played around with for about 30 minutes to give it that extra, alluring, attractive, and enigmatic of looks. On this magazine I have stuck firmly to my three colour pallet scheme in which is also portrayed on my models clothing, and this allowed my magazine to look more appealing rather than a mess of colours. I went onto a barcode generator to generate my own barcode, and the barcode portrays a few random numbers and ‘BottledMag’ just to give it that more professional of looks.

I added a new background with a pattern of a wall (although the brick are very small) and I coloured it blue with a gradient from a slightly lighter blue to a darker blue. I liked this addition because I felt it added another element that could help attract my target audience.