My Front Cover and Flavour Front Cover

To the left, is my front cover and to the right is a professionally published music magazine front cover.

1. Eye contact. Most music and fashion magazines which contain artists as their front cover, maintain eye contact with the artist. The striking eye contact also acts as a technique to draw the reader into reading/buying the magazine. Especially is the artist making the eye contact, is main featured artist. The eye makeup of the artist is also usually quite extravagantly done, as it is a main feature of the image. The eye contact also adds to the idea of the image being an aspirant, for which we, as ‘normal’ people, pursue to be like. The eye contact could also connote ‘superiority’ of the artist, as well as the magazine.

2. The artist usually has unique props/accessories, which look expensive. There is a rarity about the jewellery used, to emphasize the sheer importance/exclusivity of the artist. However, if I were to do this again, I would have used silver jewellery to coordinate with the masthead colour.

3. As pointed out earlier, the artist name is individual on the page. This applies for both music magazines and magazines in general.

4. At the bottom of the cover are other featured artists, which may interest the reader. The artists featured, could also give the reader identification as to the genre of the magazine. This would not be common in the ELLE magazine because the ELLE magazine is not a music magazine, it is a fashion magazine. This is at the bottom of the page, because it is a minor to the front cover, but the reader may be interested in one of those artists, rather than the artist on the front cover, so it is in a black box to highlight the other, featured artists.