This is my front cover. The main person in my front cover is my model. He is looking straight at the reader which makes him look as if he is trying to connect to them. He is placed just underneath the title pointing up towards the masthead which makes the audience believe that he is now something that is inevitably going to get bigger and better if he is not already there. I have placed cover lines with page numbers underneath which show how big my magazine is and it shows the different people that also feature in my magazine. I have included that it is 'Issue 41' of my magazine along the barcode so people know how long my magazine has been running for and that it is being successful. On top of the barcode is the reasonable price of £1.99 as it is cheap and my audience know they are getting a bargain. I have included something that my readers can win in a separate box so that it catches my readers attention straightaway. I have also included a website so that it looks legitimate and professional. Doing my Front Cover on Photoshop allowed me to have many different layers whether it be picture or text and it allowed me to move each layer to where I wanted it to be.
I like how you used a variety of colours for your front cover. This makes the text shown on your magazine stand out as its colour shows contrast with the black background. I also like how you highlighted the free giveaway on the front cover by placing it in its own box as its very I catching and stands out against the rest of the text on the page. As well as that, I like how your model is wearing clothes that are appropriate for the magazine and its genre. However, I do think that the front cover can be improved by using different fronts for the cover lines and masthead and editing the size of the gaps between words in the cover lines. Another thing that I think can be improved is how the image of your model is edited into the background. At the moment you can easily tell that the image is edited in poorly.
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