Chosen Ideas For Front Cover

I have decided that I will use, "FTR (For The Record)" as my magazine brand name because it is short, snappy and easy to remember. This increases the chances of it sticking in the audiences minds when they are walking around a shop. Secondly, "FTR" is already an acronym standing for "For The Record", which is NOT currently being used for a music magazine. Therefore the audience will understand what the abbreviation stands for. Just like "NME", New Musical Express. Finally, a definition for 'for the record' is; "To make something publicly known, addressing the reader". This fits the ideal conventions of a magazine because it will be letting the audience know about new artists in the musical world.

I have decided that I will use the colours, Red / Black / White as my magazine's colour scheme. This is because it returned the most votes in my questionnaire, proving to be the most appealing to the audience. Therefore this will help my magazine reach out to a wider audience as all of the colours work well together. Finally, there is a big contrast between red, black and white making it stand and jump out to the reader. However you are still able to easily read red font on a black or white background, making it a very suitable colour scheme for my magazine.

I have decided that I will use a medium close up shot for my main image on the front cover. This is because in a medium close up shot, you can still easily see the person's expressions portrayed on their face. As well as a being able to see a pose, by the use of including their shoulders and neck in the shot. Finally, in a medium close up the person's eyes in the image are still looking straight out of the page into the eyes of the reader, engaging them in the magazine due to the eye contact thats easily established.

I have decided that I will use the two fonts; IMPACT LABEL and 28 DAYS LATER as my magazine brand logo. This is because they both compliment each other and comply to a punk rock theme. The 28 DAYS LATER looks like it has been stamped on the page, where as the IMPACT LABEL font is frequently used in the punk genre of music. Where as I will use WILL&GRACE for the text on my front page. This is because it switches from normal to italic styles when typing, to be precise the consonants are in capital letters and the vowels are in lower case italic. This gives a funky. punk feel to the font, which draws the attention of the reader in.

I have decided that I will use, "Haich Bee, Exclusive Interview" as my headline on the front cover of my magazine. This is for multiple reasons; The first being that the headline explains exactly what the main feature of the magazine is going to be. Secondly, it's eye catching and draws the audience in by the use of "exclusive", letting them know that you can only read this story in this magazine. Finally, the headline is short and very informative making it easy to read and understand from a distance. This in return makes the magazine appear much more appealing.