Deconstruction of final front cover.

When constructing my front cover,  I thought what could make this magazine stand out from the rest? The Front cover is the magazines biggest advertisement. I created a big red box on photoshop and put text on top of it, to create the "Unsung" logo. I chose red because it stands out and contrasts against my black and white photograph of Milo Snow. 

When researching i had decided to make my magazine a cheap weekly magazine at only 50p, which is roughly the same price as a daily Newspaper. The way i was going to make my magazine so affordable was to cut back on printing costs and use Newspaper paper instead of the glossy polished magazine paper. To create this effect on photoshop i converted my photograph i had taken of Milo into Grayscale and put on a mode called Bitmap. This gave the effect that it had been printed using a cheap printing method, like a newspaper. Another way i set out to create this cheap paper effect was to put a picture parchment underneath my photograph and "overlay" the two. This gives the effect of the paper being slightly crinkled and worn. 

I used a three colour palette of  red, black and white. With only a splash of yellow for my price sign. Most magazines work on a three couloured palette, i kept my colours very minimal with the majority of my front cover being black and white, but used bright colours to highlight the price, the logo and the main feature.

The most conventional front covers of magazines will be packed with sell lines and goodies convincing you to pick it up and purchase it . When deciding what mine was going to look like i decided to have no sell lines apart from the main feature "Milo". I had a couple of reasons for deciding to do this. The first one was that all the focus would be on Milo Snow, I wanted this because Milo was the exact sort of acts i wanted in Unsung. The second reason was it makes the magazine look more classy and smart which would make up for the paper quality.

I used six different fonts in this front cover, although that was more than i had planned, I'm happy the way it looked in the end. For the logo i chose a very plain and bold font, to make it stand out. For the price sign i found a font on dafont.com again its bold and looks almost faded which i really liked because it went with the theme of the magazine. For the sell line about the main feature i used a western style font, i did this because it is different and not what you might expect which is what Milo Snow is all about.

Although it is not the most conventional looking magazine i was very happy with the way it turned out and i fell like it does look professional and realistic.