Draft Front Cover

This is my draft of my new front cover, from this draft I can see that I need to unstretch the front image so the model is more inproportion. I need to move the stories so that they are not covering up the models profile images, I need to shrink the masthead slightly so it fits to the page better and does cross over the models head. and finally I need to shade the bottom of the image so that the footer line of text can be seen clearer over the models dress.

Making My Front Cover Image

New Front Cover Images

Contents Page and DPS Guidelines

Contents page guidelines

• Multiple images
• If just one image per page, contents should be over 2-3 pages
• Contents page should reflect your cover stories
• The largest image should be the cover star
• Not all contents is on the contents page (majority)
• weekly- should span over about 60 pages
• monthly- 140-180 pages
• divide your contents into sections
• page number- 6 upwards
• elements to include: subscriptions offer
• letter from the editor 
• magazine branding- colours and logos

DPS guidelines

• A3 landscape- 300 dpi, RGB
• weekly- page 40 upwards
• monthly- page 90-100 upwards
• big letter at beginning of paragraph- dropped cap or raised cap
• pull out quote
• publisher to place in columns and photoshop for graphics and photos
• columns = no less than 6 words, no more than 12 words per line

What My Magazine Is Based On

My magazine masthead is based on Q's masthead, as i have chosen only one letter as my magazine name and i have placed it in the left hand corner of the magazine.

my entire front cover will be based on Q because i will be using a large picture to cover the majority of my front cover and i will be using the banner of indie artists at the bottom of the front page, i will also be using different font sizes to indicate the importance of each story.

Images For Inspiration

Chosen images to inspire my front cover images-

I will be using this photo as inspiration for my double page spread, this is because it is quite a large landscape image and also it is very flashy and eye-catching so i think that this type of image will be very effective in a double page spread.







I will also be using this photo as maybe a photo to be featured in the contents page or in the double page spread as well because again it is quite a large image, but this is very simple and eye-catching.

I will be using this photo as inspiration for my front cover, this is because it is a very unique photo, but is also very related to Florence and the machine as a similar image has been used on her album ceremonials.

Inspiration For Improvements

To improve my front cover i am going to change the front cover image, I am going to be changing the band into a solo artist using inspiration from 'Florence and the machine'.


Florence and the machine-