Front cover drafts

Here is screen shots of my different front covers. This shows the variation in my front cover production before reaching my finalised front cover. It shows the changes I took and how I adapted the front cover from my first draft.
        

These were my first two drafts; in the first draft there were minor spelling mistakes, which weren't appropriate, as it is meant to be a magazine production. I changed the spelling mistakes, making my second draft. At first, I liked how different I made my magazine, such as the way I laid out my taglines in a 'ladder' format. This was taken from my research, when I looked at 'Billboard' magazine. I thought it was a good idea to make my magazine look this way, with all the taglines together, with different fonts used, as well as making some bold, some red and some black. This was to make each tagline stand out. In addition, my headline was made to stand out by using big and bold font, 'Rockwell', as well as making the artist's name be a different colour to everything else on the magazine, being pink, which linked to her pink microphone used in the photoshoot and main image.
      
My third and fourth draft became very different to my original ideas and drafts; I made the taglines more 'traditional' being on the left and right of the main images. I enlarged the image and moved it to the middle of the page, which gave the magazine a different look and more suited to a POP magazine. In addition, it also followed my research more, with the majority of my researched magazines' having this format. In the third draft, I thought it would be a good idea to use different coloured fonts, including, red, black, white and orange. This made the magazine seem more 'POP' as it relates to colours, which I found in my research. However, I found, this completely changed my target audience of the magazine, making it aim at a younger audience, which I didn't want; this changed, producing my fourth draft. I used a coloured theme, Red and black, which gave it a uniform, meeting my target audience target and still meeting the conventions of a music magazine. I also made changed, to some of the writing and the way it was laid out, for example,  the top bar, changed to become a tagline, presenting a special edition '2014 BRIT AWARDS', which showed research into the types of stories focused on by music magazines and POP magazines especially. These were some of my changes, as well as adding in a quote for the main cover story, to get people interested in the magazine more, especially my target audience.



 This shows the front cover, similar to my fourth draft, just with minor changed, such as the QR code added, to give it a modern look and adaption to the changes in audiences' lifestyles. I have minor changes to make from this.