Cover Layout/ Photoshop

The left one was is my provisional front cover. It is different to how my first front cover flatplan looked. There are many differences between my first draft flatplan, my provisional front cover and the photshop front cover. In first draft flatplan, I initially wanted the artist to have straight hair and I had few features on my cover. I changed the amount of features on my front cover because of the results of my feedback for my flatplans. One person stated how more space should be used up on my front cover and I've used up the space now.The artist's body language was different, I wanted her to have her hand above her head to show confidence but I found it to be too provocative for the target audience for females. That would've appealed more if I had males as my target audience. I didn't have a header bar above the mastheads with the list of other Hip-Hop artists but I changed that in my provisional front cover and made sure that was incorporated in  my front cover on photoshop. I felt as though with the header bar it outlined the names more and the names were more evident than before when they were barely visible. I made sure to change the masthead name from 'Dramville' to 'Dreamville'. Dreamville is what I originally wanted but I spelt it wrong. The colour scheme from the first flatplan has changed significantly, I have no longer gone with the red, blue, black and white colour scheme. Although I have kept the black and white colours, I changed the blue and red to gold and burgundy to link with what my artist was wearing. I took the gold from the gold jewelery that she wearing and the burgundy from the colour of her lipstick. The makeup stayed the same but the price of the magazine has changed. The price of £1.50 was too cheap for a magazine so I changed the price to £3.50 which is more reasonable for the amount of content that would be in the magazine.

I have changed what the features of the magazine would be. For my flatplan, too much Drake was on the front cover. It had the interview with him and what happened between him and Chris Brown, I didn't want readers to feel as though the magazine was mainly about Drake and not the artist on the front cover. The name of my artist has changed. It changed from Leoca Johnson to Leoca Smith and then finally Anita Diaz. The name Leoca I felt didn't fit right on the magazine and it sounded to lengthy especially with the surnames. Anita Diaz sounds more snappy and sounds like a singer name. The main artist hair has changed, I was fond on having the artist with straight hair but I found the curly hair added a certain edginess to the magazine front cover. For the artists name on the cover, I have always put them in colour so those are the things that stand out. At first from the results that I collected, I wanted the artist to be superimposed over the masthead but in the end I saw how it looked with the artist superimposed and the artist without and it looked better without the artist being superimposed. The pull quote has changed, I felt as though 'This is all I've ever wanted' was too long and wasn't short and snappy. 'I made it' is more short and snappy which I think is more effective for a reader. It pulls in the target audience and they are able to discover how they made it. For my provisional front cover, the bar code was layed horizontally which I felt didn't look right. I tested out which way the bar code looked best and it looked best vertically so I decided to stay vertically from my draft flatplan.