Front cover.

Once I had edited and decided my final front cover image, I was then able to then start and experiment with colours and different fonts to match the theme, 60's/gothic. I first played around with bright bold colours for my masthead, 'RUSH', but my disadvantage was that the colours could not be too bright, e.g RED, as it would not match my theme, so I had difficulty in finding a colour that would stand out, but still look slightly old fashioned. The colour that I thought had worked the best, was a light grey/duck egg blue, as it contrasted with my dark font colours of my subheadings, to help make it stand out, as that is the purpose of a masthead. I also had to 'kerning', to be able to have letters closer together so that they fit more neatly. To help influence me, with choosing fonts and colours, I kept looking back and the 'rolling Stone' front cover that I came across in my research. As my theme includes a 60's look, I wanted to find a 60's font that I could use, So I found some free fonts that I could download onto the mac, for example...'Bobo Black', 'bumbazoid', 'spicy retro', 'smoke', 'prisma'. I had to be really careful when picking the colours for my front cover, as my main image has an orange tint, I had to find a colour that would contrast with it. After a lot of time experimenting I found that plain 'white' worked best as it was simple, bright and contrasted with my dark background colour. After looking back at real, professional music magazines, I found that the majority of the front covers were very crowed with information, and as I really liked the 'crowded' effect, I decided to to fill in space where there were large gaps, e.g. written on the 'strap line' "FREE INSIDE WOMEN IN MUSIC 70 PAGE SPECIAL", and the 'footer', "GIG TICKETS HALF PRICE!"

Improvements.

Print Professionals: Steve Priddell and Rowland Cowley

UWE Print and Design Division

1) Change the colour of the subheading, 'PETALS OF THE CELLAR', as the 'pale orange' gets lost as it is overpowered by the dark golden background colour. Suggested colour - white.

2) Move everything inwards, as in a real magazine, the side subheadings would not be shown as they are too close to the edge.