Preliminary Task - Front Cover Analysis

For my front cover, I have made sure that I’ve covered all aspects to make my front cover attention-grabbing and worth reading. Firstly, I’ve gone for a colour theme that I think contrasts well with the magazine masthead and headlines. The colours (black, red and white) really stand out and I think the black and white photo of the model really helps it look good. I have made sure that my masthead stands out the clearest against the background image and colours. I’ve done this by making the backound behind the masthead is white so any of my theme colours will stand out against it. The reason I chose the photo of the model that I did is because I think the ‘stare pose’ really stands out and the black and white effect contrasts really well against the red and black. My background image is of SJN Upper School (Common room building) which I thought would be appropriate since half of the 6^th form went there before joining Y12/Y13. My main headline “TWAG Week” has been made very bold and clear against the rest of the front cover to ensure that a lot of attention is aimed at the top story. All together I think my magazine front cover has come out better than I thought and it has achieved all that it has needed to.