Choosing Fonts & Creating a Front Cover Draft 7/3/16

Before I took my photos I wanted to produce a quick draft version of my front cover so I got an idea of image sizes and how the text would fit around my photo. In order to make my magazine look professional and effective, I used the website 'DaFont' to select some creative and new typography styles for my front cover. I decided to use four different font types so that I could differentiate between the banner, story titles and blurb information. The four fonts I chose are as follows:

Once I was happy with the fonts I had chosen, I began to fill in the frames I had initially made with text. After analysing previous front covers I was already knowledgeable on the type of stories music magazines tend to display so immediately knew what to include. I chose to have 4 main stories displayed on my front cover covering the latest hits, new discoveries, globalisation of music and of course, my main artist story. 

In order to make my audience want to read on, I created puns for my story headlines, kept the blurbs short and snappy and thought of a unique cover artist name. As I wanted a male to be the DJ on the front cover, I thought it was necessary to have a powerful and striking name. I took inspiration from the name of the model (my brother) and swapped his first and last name to create 'Clayton James'. Here is the finished draft cover: