My Music Magazine Front Cover

This is my Rock Music Magazine cover.

Rock Magazine Name: Rebel

Cover Girl: Hollie Chan

I created my front cover on Photoshop Elements 7. I took many potential shots for my front cover and so I decided to use this one. (Shown Above) This image not only stood out to me more than the other images but the camera angle was very imortant. The camera angle is slightly below eye-level which shows the model/celebrity as being a higher status. The cover girl is more dominant, she is looking down on the viewer. My rock magazine is named Rebel. I was inspired by many rock legends, musicians and songs to come up with the name for my magazine. Rock musicians are rebels along with writitng rebellious lyrics. As a result, I thought this would be a perfect name for my magazine.

I managed to stick to the layout of the magazine that I originally planned along with the choice of colour. Before adding any straplines, I wanted to make the image stand out a little more. As a result, I increased the contrast and decreased the brightness so the hair appeared darker and the overall was much crisper and fresh-looking. I didn't want to make it look completlet airbrushed as I had to stick to the genre of the magazine. Airbrushing the photo to perfection would have made it look more like a fashion magazine.

I wanted to add a few straplines on the magazine on the right hand side, as I had to make room for a bold kicker just below the face of the main image. I added a skyline at the top of the cover, after learning that most of the rock music magaazines use this technique. At the bottom of the magazine cover, I added a colour border to make the images on the layers above stand out along with including the red colour on the magazine to match the straplines. The entire magazine layout and theme was insprired by the rock magazine: Kerrang!