Finished music magazine front cover and evaluation.

This is my finished music magazine front cover. I chose to call my music magazine 'Backstage' as it refers to all the backstage gossip and behind the scenes details about famous musicans and upcoming stars. Every music lover would like a backstage pass to their favourite bands/singers and this is why I chose to call my music magazine 'Backstage' as it grants people who love music acess to their favourite bands and musicians.

I chose to have my logo within my name of my magazine. I transformed my A's in Backstage into stereos as they are iconographyof music.

I used a website called dafont.com in order to change my writing into different styles. I used this website to edit my main story text, 'An exclusive interview with Tom Kay'. I chose to do this to make the text look different and edgy.

In order to add more writing on my front cover and make it stand out I decided to use an flag picture from clipboard on desk top publisher, filled it in black and wrote my other stories featured within the magazine upon the flag image in order to make it stand out on the magazine.

I chose to have my background of my music magazine to be Black fading into red as dark colours are a conotation. I began doing this by creating a blank page on photoshop. I then used the paint tool and used the gradient application. I then filled the page with Black and red then copied the page onto desktop publisher.

My main image was a picture of Guitarist and singer Tom Kay. I took a selection of photos during my spare time and I believe the photo I have chosen was the best photo for this particular magazine. My main image features the musician with his guitar, Ibanez gem, which tells the reader about this particular musician. The photo tells the reader that he is a guitarist. When taking the photo I chose to use a fan in order to make Tom's hair windswept and make his face more visable to the reader.

If I had to change my music magazine in anyway I would of changed my main photo. I would of prefered to of had Tom facing the camera as on most music magazine front covers, the musicians are facing the camera, however, on mine this isn't the case. The musicians facing the camera is also a conotation of music magazines.