Magazine Front Cover

As you can see the actual magazine front cover that I created is very similar to the mock-up, however the puff is on the opposite side in the actual magazine, I decided to do this due to the picture, as if I would have put the puff on the opposite side then it would have removed the guitar from view, and I wanted the guitar to stand out most, this is why I have changed the artist to black and white and the guitar in colour, I did this in Photoshop cs4. I also put the puff behind the guitar but in front of the person in order to build on making the guitar stand out. I wanted the guitar to stand out as this is what the user will recognise rather than the artist as it is a new artist that the magazine is featuring in order to help boost the artists career and to give the reader some inside information on the new artist.

I have also added the date issue and the price as this will allow the reader to see if it is the most recent issue of the magazine and to see how much the magazine is.

To encourage the reader to purchase the magazine I have also added a free download code so they can get one song for free, when the readers see free they will be encouraged to buy the magazine, this is a very popular tactics used by most magazines and by a lot of mainstream shops as if the reader/customer sees the word free then they think they are getting something for nothing and do not want to miss out on the opportunity to get something for free.

I have used a pun of the word riot as it is one of the song names for paramore, and the genre that i am using is the same genre as the band paramore so the readers will instantly recognise it and will think of the band paramore and see that the featured band is very similar to the band paramore, this will then encourage the reader to buy as they recognise the band paramore.